Both sides of the aisle were heated about the issue of women being coerced into medicated abortion during a nearly two-hour-long Senate hearing on Wednesday about the safety of the abortion pills mifepristone and misoprostol. 

While the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing was initially supposed to focus on the long-awaited safety review from the Food and Drug Administration on the abortion pills, the event became mainly a referendum on the availability of abortion pills online opening the door for partners in abusive relationships, sex traffickers, or abusive parents to coerce pregnant women and girls into unwanted abortions.