Inaction has consequences: Mail-order mifepristone is midterm game-changer

Inaction on the abortion drug crisis will not come without consequences for this year’s midterm elections. As post-Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization retaliation dressed as COVID-19 relief, the Biden Food and Drug Administration removed the very last of any common-sense safety regulations on the abortion drug, mifepristone, making the dangerous drug available on demand to the general public via mail […]

What’s Next for the Abortion Drug?

Last week saw several significant developments in the fight to end the mail-order abortion drug crisis in the United States. The crisis began when former President Biden’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) gutted in-person dispensing requirements for the abortion drug under the guise of COVID relief, leaving pro-life states to reckon with an onslaught of […]

CWA Reacts to SCOTUS Stay on Mail-Order Abortion Drug Ban

  For Immediate Release: May 4, 2026 | Contact: [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America (CWA) issued a statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court decision to stay the Fifth Circuit Court ruling that banned abortion drugs from being sent through the mail. “We are saddened that the Supreme Court has issued […]

Court Temporarily Halts Mail-Order Abortion Drugs

  For Immediate Release: May 1, 2026 | Contact: [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America (CWA) lauded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit decision to temporarily halt mail-order abortion drugs and institute the requirement to obtain them in person. “This court ruling will protect human life – both the life […]

CWALAC Supports “Clean Water for All Life Act”

  For Immediate Release: March 18, 2026 | Contact: [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) said that the “Clean Water for All Life Act,” introduced today by Rep. Mary Miller (R-Illinois), will protect women by restoring in-person dispensing requirements and requiring the abortion drug Mifepristone to be dispensed with a medical waste catch kit to […]

CWALAC Commends Sen. Hawley on Bill Confronting Abortion Pill’s Dangers 

  For Immediate Release: March 11, 2026 | Contact: [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee (CWALAC) commended Sen. Josh Hawley’s new bill that will command the abortion drug Mifepristone’s approved application to be withdrawn for the purposes of terminating a pregnancy from the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, a necessary step to confront the dangerous drug.   “Claims […]

Louisiana Leaders Fight Mail-Order Abortion Drugs

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in Heaven.” Matthew 18:10 Thanks to Louisiana elected officials, our state is at the forefront of the national debate over the safety and legality of dispensing […]

Historic Pro-life Wins Under President Trump and the Work Left Ahead

Last Friday, tens of thousands of Americans of every age, creed, and kind marched down Constitution Avenue towards the nation’s capital with one, united purpose: to be a voice for the voiceless in a broken world that considers the unborn disposable. Vice President JD Vance headlined the March for Life rally with bold remarks: “The […]

Senate Hearing on Chemical Abortion Turns Into Basic Biology Lesson

It is impossible to care about women and their health if you cannot define what a woman is. That simple truth was put on full display at a recent Senate hearing aimed at exposing the dangers of chemical abortion. As the pro-life witnesses shared the threats that the unregulated chemical abortion pill poses to women’s […]

FDA Approval of Dangerous Generic Abortion Drug Puts Women at Risk

  For Immediate Release: October 2, 2025 | Contact: [email protected] WASHINGTON, DC – Concerned Women for America (CWA) said that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should not have approved another generic version of the abortion pill, mifepristone, as this dangerous drug will put more women at risk given that generic drugs are cheaper and […]

SCOTUS Decision on Abortion Drug Allows FDA to Put Women’s Lives at Risk

For Immediate Release June 13, 2024 Contact:  CWA Communications [email protected] SCOTUS Decision on Abortion Drug Allows FDA to Put Women’s Lives at Risk Regardless of doctors’ standing, FDA’s removal of safety precautions on mifepristone violates original approval standards   Washington, D.C. – Today Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, criticized […]

Abortion Drug Puts Young Women at Risk

For Immediate Release March 1, 2024 Contact:  CWA Communications [email protected] Abortion Drug Puts Young Women at Risk Women’s group blasts CVS and Walgreens for selling Mifepristone Washington, D.C. –  Today, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the nation’s largest public policy women’s organization, blasted CVS and Walgreens drug stores for their decision to sell Mifepristone, the […]

Women Deserve Better than What the FDA Has Given Us

By Sara Smith, YWA Ambassador in North Dakota The case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been making headlines recently as a district court in Texas granted a stay of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of mifepristone (a.k.a. the abortion pill). Though the Supreme Court has allowed mifepristone […]

Concerned Women for America urges FDA to reverse course on chemical abortion restriction removal

Today, the FDA announced its permanent removal of the “in-person dispensing requirement” for Mifepristone. This makes the abortion pill readily available through mail and telehealth services without the supervision of a physician. Research has shown chemical abortion has a four times higher rate of complication than surgical abortion. Concerned Women for America CEO and President […]