There’s a bill sitting in Washington right now, and if you’re the kind of person who thinks women should be able to sue the company that sent them a dangerous drug through the mail — well, abortion supporters are absolutely losing their minds over it.
Sen. Josh Hawley walked up to a microphone on Wednesday and did what most of his colleagues are too spineless to do: he introduced legislation to strip the FDA’s approval of mifepristone — the chemical abortion pill — and give harmed women the legal right to fight back against the corporations profiting off their suffering.
And here’s where it gets uncomfortable for the Left — because this wasn’t a closed-door policy memo. Hawley brought the women with him.
Elizabeth Gillette stood at that press conference and described what the abortion lobby doesn’t want on the evening news.
“There wasn’t enough towels or anything else to mop the blood as it pooled on the floor around the toilet and in the tub. When I felt pressure, I felt in between my legs and I pulled out a perfectly formed embryonic sac, with my baby floating inside it, with recognizable eyes, limbs and ear buds…They didn’t tell me that there was any complications regarding this pill.”
She was diagnosed with PTSD. Nobody warned her. And the company that made the pill? Still cashing checks.
Congress Steps In Because The Administration Won’t
Here’s the part that stings. Trump’s FDA promised a mifepristone safety review. Pro-lifers waited. Then waited some more. Then — nothing. The Trump DOJ actually filed a motion Friday to pause or dismiss Missouri’s lawsuit trying to reinstate basic safety restrictions on the pill.
Pro-life organizations didn’t take that quietly. They called it exactly what it looked like: the administration “taking the side of abortion drug dealers and the radical Left against women and children.”
SBA Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser didn’t mince words at the press conference either.
“We are waiting. We are waiting. We are waiting. And I think we’ve passed the point where we decided this is a dead end. I hope I’m wrong because the voters care.”
A dead end. From a pro-life administration. That’s a sentence nobody on the right wanted to write — but here we are.
Hawley’s read on the situation was blunt: “Only Congress can address this situation.” So he picked up the ball the executive branch dropped and ran with it.
Greedy Foreign Corporations And A Broken System
The bill doesn’t just pull FDA approval. It gives women legal standing to go after the manufacturers — what Hawley called “greedy foreign corporations who are making billions of dollars in profits by endangering women’s health and shipping to them a drug that they know is dangerous.”
That’s not hyperbole dressed up as policy. An April 2025 study of insurance data by the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that one in ten women who take the abortion pill experiences a serious adverse event. One in ten. If this were any other drug — a blood thinner, a cholesterol medication, a common antibiotic — the FDA would have yanked it off the shelves faster than you can say “congressional hearing.”
But it’s an abortion pill. So the rules are different. The media looks away. The bureaucrats shuffle paper. And women end up mopping blood off their bathroom floors alone.
Rosalie Markezich — a plaintiff in Louisiana’s lawsuit against mail-order abortions — was coerced by her ex-boyfriend into taking a pill obtained through the mail. She showed up Wednesday and said simply: “Women deserve better and their stories will be heard.”
Hawley’s bill says a doctor cannot legally prescribe mifepristone under its new framework, and that victims get a direct path into court against Danco and the foreign manufacturers behind the drug.
“I think one of the most important things the bill does is that it does give rights to victims,” Hawley said. “It gives rights to the women who are here behind and currently don’t have any recourse.”
The Punchline Nobody Asked For
The abortion lobby has spent decades telling us they’re the ones fighting for women. They’ve got the yard signs, the marches, the celebrity endorsements. What they don’t have is an answer for Elizabeth Gillette’s bathroom floor — or for Rosalie Markezich’s story — or for the one-in-ten statistic they’d rather you never see.
Josh Hawley just put all of that on paper and called it a bill. Abortion supporters hate what’s on Trump’s desk — but what they really hate is that the women who were supposed to stay quiet showed up anyway.