Contributor: ATTWN Staff
Last week, the Food and Drug Administration approved a new generic form of the abortion pill mifepristone. The pill is taken with misoprostol as part of the chemical abortion pill regime, which is how about two-thirds of all abortions happen in the United States.
“The FDA should be revoking the abortion pill, not approving a generic version. This drug isn’t penicillin or something you take for a headache – the abortion pill ends the life of a growing baby and can seriously put the health and life of the mother at risk,” said Abby Johnson, CEO and Founder of And Then There Were None and ProLove Ministries.
Medication abortions are not easy
Abby had two abortions of her own, one of which was with the abortion pill. It was this experience that was depicted in the film about her time at Planned Parenthood and subsequent conversion, Unplanned, and earned the movie an R rating. The scene in the film was dialed back from what Abby writes about the abortion in her book of the same name.
“I felt like I was dying when I had my abortion with the abortion pill. There are thousands of stories like mine from women bleeding on the bathroom floor and passing their babies into toilets, showers, or on the floor of their homes. It’s despicable that the FDA would approve a generic version of this drug,” she said.
The abortion pill is dangerous
Abby is not alone in her horrible experience with the abortion pill. And Then There Were None has been compiling first-hand stories of women who have had similar experiences with the abortion pill at Little Pills That Kill.
The largest study of women who took the abortion pill, which was released in April 2025, reveals that 1 in 10 women suffer ‘severe adverse events’ such as sepsis, hemorrhaging, infection, or another severe effect within 45 days of taking the pills, according to the Ethics and Public Policy Center. This is what the FDA has made even easier to obtain through approving a generic version of the abortion pill.
Due to this study, “Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary [recently] announced the agency would consider modifying the Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy requirements, citing ‘recent studies raising concerns about the safety of mifepristone as currently administered.’”
“Then why did the agency just approve a generic version of a drug they know to be dangerous?” asked Johnson.
Cultural change is needed
Johnson believes the only way to ignite a change in abortion laws, from the local to the federal level, is through an immense cultural shift.
“The majority of abortions today are done using the abortion pill, and the answer to eliminating abortion as an option is complicated because it is more than criminalizing abortions – it’s a cultural change, which is an immensely difficult thing to change,” said Johnson.
“Creating a culture that values motherhood, children, and families is crucial. Men stepping up to become fathers of the children they’ve helped to create, writing and passing laws that give women the time off they need from work, and making childcare affordable are all ways to create this culture that values life and helps women to see abortion as the horror it truly is.”