EXCLUSIVE — Anti-abortion advocates are trying to take advantage of a change in leadership at the Department of Justice with a new effort to pressure the Trump administration to change course on several key cases involving the abortion pill mifepristone.
Nearly 80 anti-abortion groups on Monday sent a letter to newly installed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche asking him to back states in their litigation against the Food and Drug Administration’s deregulation of online prescriptions for abortion pills.
Blanche was the deputy attorney general before President Donald Trump abruptly fired then-Attorney General Pam Bondi earlier this month, and anti-abortion advocates hope that the personnel shake-up at the top of the agency could lead to a change in policy.
Multiple states are engaged in litigation against the FDA over the agency’s decision in 2023 to remove in-person screening requirements for the abortion pill mifepristone, which allowed the abortifacient to be shipped in the
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