Hawley Introduces Bill Forcing Trump Admin To Protect Unborn From Chemical Abortion

WASHINGTON — Republican Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley announced Wednesday that he is introducing legislation to revoke U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for the chemical abortion pill.

As the Trump administration stalls on delivering its promised mifepristone safety review, Hawley said during a press conference Wednesday that “only Congress can address this situation.”

“It is time for Congress to ban the use of mifepristone for abortion,” he said. “And it’s time for Congress to give the victims, the survivors, many of whom are here today, the right to recover against this company that has inflicted harm on them solely for the purpose of making profits.”

One in ten women who take the abortion pill will experience a “serious adverse event,” according to an April 2025 study of insurance data by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC).

His bill would also allow women harmed by the pill to sue the drug’s manufacturers, which Hawley described as “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.”

Several women shared stories during the press conference of complications they experienced from taking the drug, including ending up in the emergency room with a life-threatening infection and suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

“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,” Elizabeth Gillette, who was diagnosed with PTSD after her chemical abortion, described. “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.”