The Callousness of Abortion Pills

They represent a dangerous antithesis of good health care.

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A box of Misoprostol, used to terminate early pregnancies, pictured in 2022

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You can order abortion pills in the United States and receive them in your mailbox. This should be enough to give us all pause, whatever our moral positions on abortion.

You can be in Texas, where abortion is technically illegal, and get your lethal cocktail from a doctor in New York. Louisiana? No problem. California will provide. There should be a way to stop this — pro-lifers keep talking about the Comstock Act, from 1873, for example — but there doesn’t seem to be a will among government officials, some of whom appear to be pro-life in name only.

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Kathryn Jean Lopez

Kathryn Jean Lopez is a senior fellow at the National Review Institute and the religion editor of National Review. Sign up for her weekly newsletter here. She is the author of A Year with the Mystics: Visionary Wisdom for Daily Living.

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