Samantha Flom
Samantha Flom is a senior investigative researcher for Restoration News. Her work has also appeared in The Epoch Times and on the Right Side Broadcasting Network website.
War used to have unspoken rules of engagement. Rules that mandated respect for the dignity and preservation of human life.
It seems the rules have changed.
Children, once known to be off-limits, are now targets for elimination. And if their mothers happen to get caught in the crossfire, well, so be it.
This is the mentality driving the silent civil war anti-life states have been waging against pro-life states since June 2022, and a new Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) report details the devastation.
More than 328,000 abortion pills have been illegally shipped into pro-life states as of December 2025, according to the report. Those pills were presumably ingested, killing babies in states where their lives are supposed to be protected. And though some states have tried to hold the abortionists responsible to account, they’ve been blocked by blue states’ so-called “shield laws” specifically crafted to help these killers evade justice.
Since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision overturned the federal right to abortion, 13 states have enacted near-total abortion bans. Five states have “heartbeat” provisions limiting abortion to six weeks’ gestation, and another six states restrict telehealth abortions.
In short, about half the country has tried to regulate chemical abortion. Yet, according to ROAF, those states’ laws are circumvented each month by the 15,000 abortion pills filling their residents’ mailboxes.
The mailing of abortion drugs has long been a criminal act under federal law. The Comstock Act of 1873 explicitly prohibits the mailing of “every article, instrument, substance, drug, medicine, or thing” advertised for producing an abortion. The Biden administration pointedly ignored that fact when it greenlit mail-order abortion in December 2021, mere months ahead of Dobbs.
That timing was no coincidence. While pro-lifers spent decades focused on undoing the damage of Roe v Wade, the abortion lobby was scheming up its next plan of attack.
Abortion-by-mail, or abortion-on-demand, is now the left’s most powerful weapon for ensuring no baby in America is safe.
And mothers are in just as much danger.
Another ROAF report published last year found that the abortion drug mifepristone, long heralded by the abortion lobby as “safe and effective,” is actually 22 times more dangerous for women than the drug’s label claims. The organization’s review of health insurance claims data revealed that more than one in 10 women (about 11 per cent) who take mifepristone for an abortion experience severe and potentially life-threatening side effects, ranging from sepsis and hemorrhage to uterine rupture and even death.
That figure is alarming enough on its own. But when one factors in increasing reports of coerced abortions – cases where women are unwittingly being poisoned with this drug – the need for immediate action becomes inarguable.
Rosalie Markezich of Louisiana was “ecstatic” to learn she was pregnant in October 2023. Her then-boyfriend said he was happy, too – until he changed his mind. “And he decided that he had the power to change my mind as well,” Markezich told Restoration News, recounting how her boyfriend allegedly ordered abortion pills online and then coerced her into taking them, killing their unborn baby.
Markezich is now suing the FDA.
Across America, similar cases are springing up. Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Texas, Washington – all have reported cases of coercion and abuse since the FDA rubberstamped mail-order abortion.
The God-given rights of these American women and children are under attack.
President Donald Trump could end it.
Enforcing the Comstock Act would immediately halt the blue-state operations flouting pro-life laws. The Trump Justice Department could also simply allow the courts to nullify mail-order abortion – an outcome a federal judge in Louisiana deemed likely.
For once, the door to safeguarding innocent life has been left wide open. The question is whether the president will walk through it.
Another Republican president – America’s first – once faced a similar dilemma. At the time, the moral question of slavery had split the nation in two, and the possibility of reunification seemed nearly impossible.
Abolition, after all, was not a politically expedient cause. The cost – some 620,000 lives – was unbelievably steep. But when the conflict reached its bloodiest, President Abraham Lincoln did not retreat out of fear of the political consequences. On the contrary, he doubled down.
His words, recalling our Founding Fathers, will forever remain etched in history: “Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Yes, created equal.
Lincoln went on to resolve that “this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
That new birth of freedom came for some Americans, but not all. President Trump has the power to change that.
This is his Gettysburg moment. I pray he doesn’t let it pass him by.
This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire.
