A key step in religious-right efforts to eliminate access to legal abortion nationwide is banning distribution of abortion medication by mail, which has provided an option for women living in states that have criminalized abortion.
This week the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins and other self-described “spiritual overseers and pro-life leaders” sent a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to stop mail-order distribution of mifepristone, which is now used in the majority of abortions in the U.S.
The July 28 letter from more than three dozen Southern Baptist leaders complains about shield laws in pro-choice states that protect doctors who send medication to people in states like Louisiana and Texas. (New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has rejected an extradition request from Louisiana targeting a doctor in New York.)
On July 29, 16 Republican state attorneys general sent a letter to congressional leaders attacking state shield laws as “antithetical to the spirit of federalism” and the Supreme Court’s Dodd decision, in which the right-wing majority overturned Roe v. Wade. The letter urges Congress “to consider taking action preempting abortion shield laws.”
Perkins has devoted multiple segments of his Washington Watch podcast to the issue.
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