We all know that
devout Catholic
President Joe Biden believes that women should be able to get an abortion any time, anywhere, and for any reason. But that’s just not enough.
Now the FDA will
allow
retail pharmacies such as CVS and Walgreens to dispense abortion medication to women who have a prescription. Prior to this change, abortion pills could only be prescribed and dispensed by clinics, medical offices, or hospitals, or under the supervision of a certified health provider.
But this week’s announcement is just the latest front in Biden’s pro-abortion crusade. The Biden administration has also been working to make it easier to get an abortion without having to get off the couch. Because why should murdering the unborn be in any way inconvenient?
Back in December 2021, the Food and Drug Administration
announced
that it would be permanently lifting restrictions regarding abortion pill prescriptions, allowing women to receive the medication by mail instead of in person from certified providers. Partnered with the federal government’s move toward telemedicine — providing remote medical advice and treatment without meeting a medical professional in person — this meant that women could access abortion pills without having to leave their homes.
And to make sure that the abortions-by-mail continue apace, the Department of Justice
proclaimed
last month that continuing to send these pills across the country in the mail — even to states that now ban many forms of abortion in order to protect life — is just fine. But don’t worry! The Department of Justice is in no way political.
If we are to take the Biden administration seriously (an unwise decision), sending abortion pills through the mail is not in violation of the Comstock Act of 1873 — which made it illegal to send “obscene, lewd or lascivious,” “immoral,” or “indecent” material through the mail — if the sender is not aware the medication will be used illegally.
“We conclude that [the Comstock Act] does not prohibit the mailing, or the delivery or receipt by mail, of mifepristone or misoprostol where the sender lacks the intent that the recipient of the drugs will use them unlawfully,” Christopher Schroeder, assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, wrote. “Moreover, there are manifold ways in which recipients in every state may use these drugs, including to produce an abortion, without violating state law. Therefore, the mere mailing of such drugs to a particular jurisdiction is an insufficient basis for concluding that the sender intends them to be used unlawfully.”
If medication that deliberately causes the termination of a pregnancy (i.e., murder pills) isn’t “immoral,” then it’s hard to imagine what immoral even means. Is this the goal of the Biden administration?
Of course, this is all part of the radical Left’s mission to enable abortion as a method of avoiding responsibility for each and every decision. And in a society where every other product and service is available at the touch of a button — including meals, transportation, and narcotics — it’s apparently unconscionable that murdering your own unborn child should be any different.
When medical abortions account for
more than half
of abortions in the United States, and with abortion becoming more difficult across the country, the only area of the economy booming under Biden’s leadership will apparently be abortion by mail.
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) is the host of
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