As RedState's Bob Hoge and others have reported, on Wednesday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was put through the paces in the Senate Judiciary confirmation hearing to take up the big chair of Attorney General on a permanent basis. As per usual, the Senate Democrats on the committee trotted out their standard nonsense and obsessions over the Epstein Files, the 2020 election, and the fact that Blanche represented President Donald Trump in one of the Letitia James weaponization trials in New York. Blanche stayed cool, calm, and collected, ably batting away these feckless actors like a horse bats away flies.
But the Republican senators also brought hard questions and concerns. One issue that hasn't received a great deal of coverage is what Blanche plans to do with the violations of the Comstock Act allowed by the Biden administration, where Mifepristone, the abortion pill, can be sent through the mail.
Dozens of pro-life groups are pleading with the Trump White House to stop the Food and Drug Administration from allowing mail delivery of abortion pills, claiming the Justice Department can do so by merely settling a lawsuit.
Last year, Louisiana challenged a Biden-era policy allowing mifepristone, part of a two-drug regimen to cause an abortion, to be delivered via the postal system.
That case, Louisiana v. FDA, is playing out before the New Orleans-based Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) led with the questions, and he asked Blanche what action he would, as the Attorney General, take to correct the issues at hand in Louisiana v. FDA. While Blanche acknowledged that he could not comment on ongoing litigation, he did affirm that what the Biden administration did was absolutely godawful, and that DOJ would use its powers to reverse it.
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Breaking: @SenJudiciaryGOP Confirmation Hearing has started for Todd Blanche - acting U. S. Attorney General. Right away he’s asked about the mail-order abortion pill issue and the Louisiana v. FDA case, a case in which Texas Values @txvalues filed an amicus brief at the Supreme… pic.twitter.com/TfncaA42FJ
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Breaking: @SenJudiciaryGOP Confirmation Hearing has started for Todd Blanche - acting U. S. Attorney General. Right away he’s asked about the mail-order abortion pill issue and the Louisiana v. FDA case, a case in which Texas Values @txvalues filed an amicus brief at the Supreme Court supporting Louisiana's effort to stop the mail-order distribution of abortion pills, similar to Texas laws on this issue.
“President Trump is the most pro-life president in history…we are not in any way defending what Biden and that administration did with respect to that judge...” -Todd Blanche
U.S. Senators @JohnCornyn and @tedcruz are serving on the Senate Judiciary Committee as it holds today's hearing with @DAGToddBlanche in Washington, D.C.
We're continuing to monitor the hearing as it relates to the pro-life issue and other values issues. @TheJusticeDept
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On several occasions, Blanche was full-throated and evocative in declaring the Trump administration is the "most pro-life" in history. When Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) asked Blanche if, as Attorney General, he would commit to prioritizing taking action to combat the damage done by the Biden administration policy, Blanche's response was "absolutely." Blanche said that he has seen with his own eyes abortion pills coming from overseas without controls and declared it "wrong, and I very much commit our resources to stopping this."
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"I very much commit our resources to stopping this"
— American Bridge 21st Century (@American_Bridge) July 15, 2026
Blanche commits to cracking down on mifepristone by mail and further restricting reproductive rights for women. pic.twitter.com/y0ryo7QYVh
Apart from becoming a lightning rod for controversy in the abortion wars, especially after the overturn of Roe v. Wade, Mifepristone has always been a deadly drug. While the pro-abortion Left claims unfettered access is necessary in order to help women seeking an abortion easily obtain one, the pro-life Right claims the free flow of this drug without medical and regulatory guardrails will continue to harm women, as well as be weaponized against women.
A study done by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) gives credence to the harms of the drug, even when it was under some form of medical supervision. In a study of insurance claims between 2017 and 2023, it revealed that more than 10 percent of the women who made claims experienced "sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion." These are only the reported numbers. According to EPPC, the real-world rate of serious adverse events is at least 22 times higher.
Then there are the men and women, from sex traffickers to a partner who doesn't want the responsibility of a child, who opt to use nefarious means in order to force women into a chemical abortion.
Such is the case in Texas, where one man spiked his girlfriend's cocoa with Mifepristone.
John Ruben Demeter, 25, has been charged with one count each of illegal performance of an abortion and injury to a child, according to a press release issued by the Montgomery County District Attorney's Office.
"[H]e secretly administered an abortion-inducing drug to a pregnant woman without her knowledge or consent, resulting in the death of her unborn child," the press release reads.
Another case involved an Army captain who was having an affair with a subordinate and decided to remove the evidence of their affair.
Capt. Brandon Jones-Adams, 34, was sentenced last week to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to domestic violence, fraternization, and conduct unbecoming of an officer during a trial at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state.
He was also dismissed from the military and forfeited all pay and allowances for sneaking the abortion drug mifepristone into the drink of his girlfriend, a junior enlisted soldier, causing her to miscarry at the start of her second trimester.
The longer Mifepristone is unregulated, the higher the death count will become, whether that be the unborn babies killed through chemical means, or the women who are physically harmed by its use. Should Blanche be confirmed, pro-life groups and the Republican senators will work to hold Blanche's feet to the fire to ensure he honors his word given under oath.
