In a victory for mothers and unborn children, Planned Parenthood and abortion activists dropped their legal challenge against five North Carolina laws protecting women and unborn children
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys representing the North Carolina Speaker of the House and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate asked the court to dismiss the case, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic v. Moore, last week.
North Carolina-based abortion businesses and a national pro-abortion advocacy group were challenging the state’s prohibition on telemedicine abortions, a 72-hour informed-consent period, facility safety codes, the requirement that facilities provide patients with informed-consent information, and a law ensuring that an abortion only be performed by a licensed physician. Now, after they filed a voluntary dismissal of the lawsuit Thursday, all five laws can remain in effect, helping ensure that women undergo serious procedures only when they are well aware of the risks and alternatives under the care of a licensed physician treating the patient in person.
“Every woman deserves to have all the information she needs to make the healthiest choice for everyone involved in an unexpected pregnancy,” said ADF Senior Counsel Denise Harle, director of the ADF Center for Life. “Tragically, many women turn to abortion as a last resort, unaware of the resources available to them or the harms of abortion. No one benefits more from this situation than abortionists and their facilities. We’re pleased to have favorably closed this case on behalf of the legislators we represent, and to see these life-saving state laws that empower women remain in effect.”
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The laws will save babies from abortions and spare women suffering from the dangerous abortion pill.
In the United States, more than two dozen women’s deaths have been linked to the legal use of the abortion drugs, and thousands of others have suffered serious complications, according to a study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Numerous studies also have found that the risks to women are higher than what abortion activists often claim.
Despite the deadly risks to both mother and child, abortion activists have been telling women that abortion drugs are safe to take at home without the supervision of a doctor.
Last year, the Biden administration began allowing U.S. abortionists to sell abortion drugs through the mail without ever seeing the woman. Although a licensed medical professional is still supposed to be involved, often the only interaction is chatting with a woman briefly over the phone from hundreds of miles away before mailing the drugs to her.
Meanwhile, some abortion activists in the U.S. recently admitted to smuggling abortion drugs across the Mexico border and sending broken and mislabeled pills to women or, possibly, their abusers – without the involvement of any licensed medical provider at all.
All this and more have pro-life advocates extremely concerned for mothers’ and unborn babies’ lives.
One study found as many as one in 17 women requiring hospital treatment after taking the abortion drugs. A study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the rate of abortion-related emergency room visits by women taking the abortion drug increased more than 500 percent between 2002 and 2015.
In England, which began allowing mail-order abortion drugs around the same time as the U.S., new investigations show a huge increase in ambulance calls and reports of coercion and abuse. There also have been reports of late-term babies being born alive at home as a result of mail-order abortion drugs because their mothers did not realize how far along they were.
