Fight is over easy availability of pill used to kill unborn babies
By Katelynn Richardson, Daily Caller News Foundation
Women coerced into taking the abortion pill are calling out a major federally-funded domestic violence support group for backing a policy that enabled their abuse.
Despite acknowledging abusive men sometimes use the easily accessible pill to force women to kill their unborn babies, the National Domestic Violence Hotline and Legal Voice is opposing Louisiana’s challenge to relaxed U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rules that allow anyone to obtain mifepristone through the mail.
“Ultimately, the solution to reproductive coercion is to address the underlying dynamics of abuse and coercion, not to take away or limit medication that is necessary to many survivors’ reproductive freedom, health, and safety,” the organization wrote in its February amicus brief, which argues reinstating in-person dispensing requirements for the abortion pill “would harm survivors.”