Abortion pill case is, in fact, the win pro-lifers think it is

Abby Johnson is one of the most prominent pro-life voices in the movement right now. And she’s right about a lot of things. But her view, as expressed in a recent op-ed, that the “pro-life movement should never have championed” a lawsuit that resulted in a ruling halting the mailing of high-risk, life-ending abortion drugs nationwide is, regrettably, not one of those things.

My team at Alliance Defending Freedom is litigating that case alongside Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill. The case, The State of Louisiana v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, is currently before the U.S. Supreme Court after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit issued an order prohibiting the mailing of abortion drugs nationwide.

The notion that the abortion industry will simply pivot to higher-risk misoprostol-only abortions if mail-order mifepristone is curtailed doesn’t mean that mail-order mifepristone should continue. If the anti-abortion movement begins to argue that ending