Pro-life org: Informed consent for abortion pill impossible without doctor visit

The nation’s largest pro-life organization filed an amicus brief Thursday in the U.S. Supreme Court asserting the impossibility of ensuring informed consent without an in-person doctor’s visit as it relates to the abortion pill, since anyone can order the drug online.

President of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Marjorie Dannenfelser told The Center Square that her organization’s brief “highlights how impossible it is to ensure the right to informed consent in this unregulated Wild West environment” surrounding the abortion pill.

Dannenfelser said that “anyone – male or female, adult or minor, pregnant or not pregnant – can order these inherently dangerous drugs online, anonymously, have them shipped anywhere in the country, and even stockpile them.”

“For years, the abortion industry has planned on mail-order abortion drugs to do an end run around pro-life prote...