How Trump 2.0 Can Get Back to Trump 1.0 on the Abortion Pill

It took pro-life conservatives 49 years to gather enough legal might to overturn Roe v. Wade. We have the power to end Roe‘s successor — the abortion pill — immediately, but only if President Donald Trump acts with his trademark iron will. Given that the pro-death Left has everything to lose, Christians must marshal every ounce of support they need to win.

The evolution from surgical abortions to at-home, chemical infanticide marks the final degeneration of Abortion Inc. — from “safe and legal, but rare” in the 1990s to casual pill-popping in 2025. It’s no longer about comforting grieving mothers who’ve made the tragic decision to terminate a pregnancy. The already ugly process has morphed into a cynical assembly line, dispensing pharmaceutical death to young women from the comfort of home. It’s “healthcare” minus the physician… or the care. (RELATED: ‘Dr. Maggie,’ Notorious Abortionist)

For years, Planned Parenthood has held that mifepristone and misoprostol, the drugs used in chemical abortion, are “safer than Tylenol.” Yet medical insurance claims data show the abortion pill is 22 times more dangerous than the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) admits, according to a recent study by my colleagues at the Restoration of America Foundation. Nearly 11 percent of women who ingested mifepristone from 2017-2023 experienced a serious adverse health event, ranging from sepsis to ruptured ectopic pregnancy, and even death. (RELATED: When the Abortion Lobby Cries Wolf, They Might Just Summon One)

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has promised to investigate the abortion pill, but so far has little to show for it. In fact, we’ve gone backwards since that revelation, with the FDA approving a second generic form of mifepristone earlier this month.

When the agency first greenlit Mifeprex, brand-name mifepristone, in 2000, it limited dispensation to in-person visits with licensed physicians. Even then, the drug was only approved for pregnancies up to seven weeks’ gestation and mandated three trips to the doctor.

In the years since, the Obama and Biden administrations made sweeping changes that dramatically expanded access and gutted oversight requirements — until the Biden FDA nixed the doctor’s visit altogether in 2021. Since then, anyone has been able to purchase mifepristone online. (RELATED: Enforce Comstock: End ‘Mail-Order’ Abortions)

Predictably, the drug’s popularity exploded.

“I could go online to over 70 websites right now [and] put in fake information … and they will send me the medication abortion pills to anywhere I request,” pro-life champion Abby Johnson explained last year.

Chemical abortion now represents nearly two-thirds of all abortions in America compared with less than 31 percent a decade ago. That’s an incredible industry-wide transformation in just 25 years — one accelerated by the COVID lockdowns and 2022 Dobbs decision — with horrifying ramifications for women’s safety. Without an in-person visit to a physician, for example, there’s no way to discover an ectopic pregnancy, setting up a potentially lethal scenario for a woman who believes she’s successfully aborted her child when, in fact, she has not. Unbelievably, the FDA considers that sufficient oversight, even under Kennedy and Trump.

So how on earth did we arrive here?

It Didn’t Happen Overnight

First, we have to acknowledge that this sinister project took root three decades ago while pro-life Christians were preoccupied with fighting Roe.

In 1994, Bill Clinton ordered the FDA to import the French-invented mifepristone with the help of the Population Council, a powerful abortion lobby rooted in the eugenics movement. Worth noting: John D. Rockefeller III, liberal grandson of the pious Baptist entrepreneur and philanthropist, co-founded the council in 1952 to shrink the global population, beginning with forced sterilization in India. (RELATED: UN Population Agency Seeks to Cover Up the Disaster They Wrought)

Interestingly, President Clinton agreed with the basic premise of the abortion pill as a tool for shrinking the global population. “It is clear that we need a comprehensive approach to the world’s future,” he asserted weeks after striking a deal with the French manufacturer in May 1994. “If you look at the numbers, you must reduce the rate of population growth.” Mifepristone, the key ingredient in the abortion pill, was the answer.

Abortion and population control have always been siblings. Mifepristone’s French developer was owned by a German firm that once manufactured Zyklon B, the gas used to slaughter millions in the Holocaust. In 2009, no less than Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg explained to the New York Times that Roe v. Wade was decided out of “concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of.”

Warren Buffett, secretly one of the largest funders of abortion activism — and possibly the largest funder in human history — has poured a fortune into the Gates Foundation, which in turn bankrolls the UN’s population reduction crusade in poor, non-white countries. Buffett’s own foundation was a top donor to Gynuity Health Projects, a New York “charity” that experimented with second-trimester abortion drugs, inducing miscarriage and very often lethal hemorrhaging. (RELATED: Warren Buffett Walks Away From Wall Street — But Not From Butchering Unborn Babies)

They call it “medication abortion,” and it relies on the same drug Clinton unleashed upon America: Mifepristone.

Second, this is a moral clash between the God of life and the spiritual forces of evil. We may battle in the courts and legislatures, but our struggle is against death itself.

The Dobbs decision wisely returned control of abortion laws to the states, a victory for federalism. Yet it also unleashed the next stage in the spiritual conflict. We’re locked in a new civil war between red and blue states that will end with abortion either legalized everywhere or nowhere.

In the past half-decade, the professional Left has manufactured a network of abortionists and advocacy groups to smuggle the abortion pill into red states with strict abortion laws. One of these organizations, Plan C, targets 6,000 women each month in red states. Its fiscal sponsor has raked in over $65 million from George Soros’s Foundation to Promote Open Society, the Pritzker family’s Kataly Foundation, and the Gates Foundation. These are tax-exempt mockeries of “philanthropy,” the biblical love of one’s neighbor. The Left has weaponized Americans’ generous charitable laws against us. (RELATED: The Godfather of Global Disorder)

Plan C was founded by Francine Coeytaux, a French-born abortion activist who worked for the Population Council around the time it helped introduce France’s mifepristone into the United States.

Astonishingly, her brother — Remy Coeytaux — stands accused of illegally mailing mifepristone to individuals in two pro-life states, according to a recent Louisiana arrest warrant and a Texas lawsuit filed in July. He’s sheltered from justice by California’s “shield law,” crafted specifically to protect abortionists who fuel this open black market. (RELATED: Gavin Newsom’s New Low)

In Louisiana’s case, a man coerced his pregnant girlfriend into ingesting the drugs in 2023, which he reportedly purchased from Coeytaux for $150. “If the Biden FDA had not removed in-person dispensing, my then-boyfriend would not have been able to obtain abortion drugs and pressure me to take them against my will,” the alleged victim, Rosalie Markezich, explained.

She’s backing the lawsuit and demanding the FDA outlaw mailing mifepristone altogether. But “the trauma of my chemical abortion still haunts me,” Markezich said.

Rosalie Markezich’s story is just one tragedy amidst thousands. In Texas, a Marine pilot allegedly spiked his girlfriend’s hot chocolate with 10 misoprostol tablets, putting her in the hospital. Another is accused of spiking his girlfriend’s coffee. One mother even stands accused of pressuring her teenage daughter into ingesting the drugs, nearly killing the young girl. (RELATED: The Unspeakable Evil of Christopher Cooprider)

All or Nothing

Third: Abortion, like slavery, has never been a states’ rights issue.

Mail-order abortifacients murder over 600 unborn babies in Louisiana each month despite the state’s near-total ban on abortion. In other words, abortion persists even in most pro-life states — defying both the law and the will of the people. We won’t solve it with a patchwork of pro- and anti-abortion laws. As in the first Civil War, the nation cannot endure half pro-death and half pro-life.

“Progressives” are correct when they argue that there’s no neutrality on this battlefield. The secular Left is all-in on demanding unlimited abortion access nationwide. As a Christian people, we must likewise unite around eradicating this lawlessness everywhere. Democracy isn’t the solution; national obedience to God is.

Sometimes that will require clever maneuvering, like a 15-week ban in purple states such as Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin proposed in 2023. That’s useful so long as we don’t stop there. We can learn a valuable lesson from our enemies and turn it to God’s glory. Every compromise should be in service to an unchanging vision: No abortion, anywhere, at any time, for any reason. Anything less is merely anti-abortion when we must be genuinely pro-life.

On the surface, the abortion lobby has never been more powerful or wide-reaching. Thanks to mifepristone, abortions have surged to one million per year, the highest in a decade. Yet the same drug responsible for this rapid expansion will also prove Big Abortion’s downfall.

That’s where the Trump administration comes in.

Secretary Kennedy has the authority to reinstate the original Trump-era rules requiring in-person doctor visits and genuine medical oversight — measures that would end the mail-order abortion pill overnight. His FDA has ample evidence to recall the drug for further study — or better yet, ban it outright as too unsafe to be marketed.

But that’s only one path. President Trump could immediately rescind the December 2022 Biden memorandum allowing mifepristone and misoprostol to be mailed nationwide, shutting down the black market with the stroke of a pen under a little-known law with enormous potential.

If you’ve never heard of the Comstock Act, it’s time to get acquainted. Passed in 1873 and named for the great Calvinist and Postal Service Inspector Anthony Comstock, it was a powerful tool Republicans used to counter post-Civil War debauchery by banning the mailing of materials used for abortion. The law led directly to the arrest of Madame Restell, a New York abortionist famous for marketing early at-home abortion pills nearly 150 years ago. Inspector Comstock himself later scuffled with Margaret Sanger, the future founder of Planned Parenthood. (There’s truly nothing new under the sun.) (RELATED: Enforce Comstock: End ‘Mail-Order’ Abortions)

Unfortunately, the Comstock Act fell out of favor with the rise of radical feminism. In 1973, it went inert after Roe v. Wade rendered its abortion restrictions unenforceable. But with Roe’s demise, Comstock could become Trump’s secret weapon — a proton torpedo fired straight into the Left’s Death Star.

Think I’m exaggerating? Congressional Democrats, realizing they blundered in not banning Comstock when they had the chance under Biden and Obama, have introduced a “Stop Comstock Act” — bleating the law “could be misused to implement [a] national abortion ban.”

Leftists are already panicked over the rash of abortion clinics closing down in the past year in friendly blue states. Planned Parenthood, recently defunded by the Big Beautiful Bill, is desperate for funding from blue states like Colorado and California — which face deficits of $1.2 billion and $68 billion, respectively. Pro-abortion groups are likewise scrambling as donations dry up and overhead skyrockets.

Now imagine what happens if they’re barred from mailing mifepristone altogether. Unconstitutional “shield laws” won’t protect abortionists like Remy Coeytaux from federal law enforcement.

This is the battle plan for abolishing the gravest injustice our nation has ever allowed. As Christians, we can’t expect God’s blessing upon our country if we tolerate rampant sin in our midst. National restoration flows from national repentance. We’ve been blessed with a president — however flawed — who acknowledges Christ as King: “The living Son of God who conquered death, freed us from sin, and unlocked the gates of Heaven for all of humanity,” Trump said last Easter.

“This Holy Week,” he continued, “my Administration renews its promise to defend the Christian faith in our schools, military, workplaces, hospitals, and halls of government. We will never waver in safeguarding the right to religious liberty, upholding the dignity of life, and protecting God in our public square.”

Mr. President, it’s time to make good on that promise. Honor God — and end the carnage for good.

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Hayden Ludwig is the founding editor of Restoration News and executive research director for Restoration of America.