WASHINGTON — A U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee hearing yesterday under the leadership of Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) exposed how the Biden administration’s expansion of mail-order chemical abortion drugs is endangering women and undermining state laws designed to protect life.

“Yesterday’s hearing confirmed what we are seeing across the country: abortion drugs are being pushed on women with no meaningful medical oversight, no accountability, and no regard for state law,” said Carol Tobias, president of National Right to Life. “Mail-order abortion is not health care. It is a reckless experiment that puts women at risk and leaves families to deal with the consequences.”

Tobias continued, “National Right to Life commends Senator Cassidy and the HELP Committee for bringing national attention to the dangers of chemical abortions.”

The hearing, titled “Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs,” featured testimony from Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill and obstetrician-gynecologist Dr. Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst, who detailed how federal policies have enabled widespread distribution of abortion pills—often into states with strong life-protective laws—despite clear prohibitions.

Testimony presented to the committee documented cases involving severe complications, lack of medical supervision, coercion, and deaths associated with abortion drugs. Witnesses explained how the removal of in-person dispensing requirements for mifepristone has made enforcement of state law increasingly difficult while empowering out-of-state abortion providers operating behind so-called shield laws.

“Women deserve better than pills shipped through the mail with no physician oversight and no accountability when something goes wrong,” Tobias said. “We urge Congress to restore commonsense safeguards that protect women’s health and respect the authority of states to defend both mothers and their unborn children.”

Founded in 1968, the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the federation of affiliates in each of the 50 states, is the nation’s oldest and largest grassroots pro-life organization. National Right to Life works through legislation and education to protect innocent human life from abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia.