BREAKING: The Trump Administration is “Reviewing” Abortion Pills
The FDA and HHS just announced their next move in the war against mifepristone
Jessica Valenti
Sep 24, 2025
While the country is distracted by Donald Trump’s obscene lie that Tylenol during pregnancy causes autism, the administration is making their next major move against abortion pills. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) says it will conduct its own study of mifepristone to determine whether to roll back access to the medication—under the guise of “protecting the health and safety of pregnant women.”
In a letter to Republican attorneys general, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary write that they’re being driven to act by “recent studies raising concerns about the safety of mifepristone”—citing a junk science report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC). The pair also claim the Biden administration “significantly reduced” safeguards for women, in part by allowing patients to get abortion medication using telehealth.
The short version? They’re coming after providers’ ability to mail abortion pills.
Right now, one in four abortions are provided by telehealth, and shipping medication is largely what allows women living under state bans to obtain care. Thanks to abortion pills—and the shield laws that protect the providers who mail them—bans haven’t been able to put a dent in the abortion rate. In fact, the number of abortions in the U.S. has increased since Roe was overturned.
That’s why anti-abortion activists and legislators have been pressuring Kennedy and Makary to restore pre-2016 rules on mifepristone: if they can take out telehealth, they’ll finally be able to stop large swaths of women from getting the care they need. (And, they hope, stop looking like such abject failures.)
The anti-abortion movement also knows that the Trump administration has been wary of making big unpopular moves against the pills—like enforcing the Comstock Act. Rolling back access to mifepristone under the auspices of “safeguards,” however, is much more palatable. So for months, they’ve been laying the groundwork to help the FDA and HHS do just that.
Abortion, Every Day has been raising the alarm for just as long: we started warning back in April that the Trump administration was coordinating with the EPPC on the strategy and timing of their bogus research on mifepristone.
It started (publicly, at least) at the Semafor World Economy Summit on April 24th, when Makary was asked about abortion medication. The FDA commissioner insisted he had “no plans to take action” on mifepristone—unless new “data” on the drug came in:
“As a scientist, you’ve got to evolve as the data comes in. As you may know, there is an ongoing set of data that is coming into FDA on mifepristone. So if the data suggests something, or tells us that there’s a real signal, we can’t promise we’re not going to act on that data that we have not yet seen.”
Four days later, like magic, the EPPC published what they called the “largest-ever” study of mifepristone.
That same day, Sen. Josh Hawley sent a letter to Makary urging a full FDA review of the medication, and major anti-abortion leaders started peppering conservative media outlets with quotes, op-eds, and talking points about the report. (With the Trump administration worried about backlash, it wasn’t enough to sway the FDA and HHS—they had to convince the American public, too.)
This cannot be a shock.
WE TOLD YOU THIS WAS COMING.
White House Unveils ‘TrumpRx’ Drug-Buying Site and a Pfizer Pricing Deal
The company said it gains a three-year grace period to exempt it from national-security-related tariffs
WASHINGTON—President Trump on Tuesday unveiled a direct-to-consumer website for Americans to buy drugs, dubbed TrumpRx, and said that Pfizer plans to offer some of its drugs on the site at a reduced rate.
https://www.wsj.com/health/pharma/white-house-to-announce-trumprx-drug-buying-website-and-deal-with-pfizer-8c42e5cb
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 1:40 PM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
The US military has banned drill instructors “putting their hands on recruits” since 1980.
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1973095741355639064?t=14S9YAY19dgNNSo5eitgUQ&s=03)
Nicoletta (@MissNicoletta) posted at 4:25 PM on Mon, Sep 29, 2025:
When the majority of white folks have NOT voted Democratic in a Presidential election since *1964,* it’s pretty fuckin obvious that many are motivated by racism and bigotry.
(https://x.com/MissNicoletta/status/1972774765720227857?t=rYRY_Rc0qxhziJ_fRjSRDw&s=03)
Teammate Christian (@christianj0401) posted at 9:03 PM on Mon, Sep 29, 2025:
It’s always bothered me since last year people telling Dems need to abandon pretty much their entire base (Black voters, LGBTQ, etc.) to appease poor, working class white voters. Not once when Repubs lost in 2020 they needed to shift more left on issues…
(https://x.com/christianj0401/status/1972844756754678175?t=mKo-GVid6lsMYvIzxjd7LQ&s=03)
Shauna (@shauna1187) posted at 3:11 PM on Mon, Sep 29, 2025:
These folks at this point are being intentionally obtuse. Also, it’s very unfortunate that there are a lot of Dems who are and would be more than willing to throw Black folks under the bus if it meant getting the support needed to win future elections. Too bad for them.
(https://x.com/shauna1187/status/1972756169384231031?t=lQkToBjNjU85HMKP-YH2Dg&s=03)
Arya Sundaram (@arya_sundaram) posted at 10:00 AM on Tue, Sep 30, 2025:
An ICE officer pushed a photojournalist to the ground today at immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in NYC.
The photojournalist couldn’t get up afterwards, and EMS was called. https://t.co/Kpn6T6hQzM
(https://x.com/arya_sundaram/status/1973040343651401950?t=sMP6YzEC4xCjPwUdmrYmVw&s=03)
Symone D. Sanders Townsend (@SymoneDSanders) posted at 10:22 AM on Mon, Sep 29, 2025:
Ta-Nehisi Coates going through the historical experience of political violence from the perspective of Black Americans descended from enslaved people and how that understanding shapes experiences only to have Ezra respond: “sometimes I think having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic” is 😩
It is a luxury to believe the historical scope for anyone, but especially people of color in America should or could be narrowed to properly analyze the times we live in.
(https://x.com/SymoneDSanders/status/1972683423144689818?t=Jx9yHejXlfCLR7QtLvaUvg&s=03)
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@blewis823
Watching
@maddow
show and she’s showing how the mayor of Newark, NJ and the congresswoman was set up to be arrested at that ICE facility, the Black captain was excited to do it by order of the Deputy AG of NJ. My gut is just sick, I’m near tears.
8:17 PM · Sep 29, 2025
https://x.com/blewis823/status/1972833118928449959
we know why
Tim
@trouble_man90
I’m asking this question genuinely: Can someone please explain to me why these protests seem to have less vigor than when Biden and Harris were in office? There’s a certain level of energy that’s clearly not there anymore and I would like an honest explanation.
The Associated Press
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BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he’s loosening disciplinary rules and weakening hazing protections at rare meeting of top military leaders.
https://x.com/AP/status/1973009434734469630
Hope you understand this means the rules that have been put in place to protect female military personnel from sexual assault will also be lessened.
Aaron Rupar
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Jeffries: “It appears, at least to me, that a decision has been made by House Republican leaders, perhaps blessed by the administration, to shut the govt down. Why did they they cancel votes? Why are they on vacation spread out across the country & world when we’re on the brink of a govt shutdown?”
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lzzb34wz7c2i
PHUCKING LIE
Aaron Rupar
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Mike Johnson on CNBC claims that Democrats “put it in writing” during their meeting yesterday that they want health insurance for undocumented migrants as a demand for averting a shutdown
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Aaron Rupar
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CNBC: Is it true that you want to restore American taxpayer benefits to illegal immigrants.
JEFFRIES: This is also an outright lie. Federal law prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to provide medical coverage to undocumented individuals. That’s the law.
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3m22n37hamb2s
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Trump opens with a threat to the generals in the room:
“I’ve never walked into a room so silent before … Just have a good time. And if you want to applaud, you applaud. And if you want to do anything you want, you can do anything you want. And if you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room. Of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future. but you just feel nice and loose.”
8:40 AM · Sep 30, 2025
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1973020044444545363
Kyle Griffin
@kylegriffin1
Top generals were gather from around the world and Trump is talking about President Biden and the autopen (which Trump also uses).
9:00 AM · Sep 30, 2025
https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1973025124619293174
Marc Elias
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NEW VIDEO: Free and fair elections are under attack, and Congresswoman Suzan DelBene is on the front lines of the fight. As chair of the DCCC, she joins me to discuss gerrymandering, mail-in voting, and what Democrats must do to win back the House and defend democracy.
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3lzy6l4dxr22j
Aaron Rupar
@atrupar
Eric Trump: “You’re sitting there saying, ‘Why can’t I send hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin overseas instantly or receive it instantly with virtually no fees?’ Bitcoin is the way of the future.”
https://x.com/atrupar/status/1972725224899592658
Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.
Gabe Levin
Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, a professor of American studies at Cornell, said the university has canceled the two classes he was set to teach this semester. It comes as the provost is recommending that he be suspended for two semesters without pay on the grounds that he violated federal antidiscrimination laws, The Nation has learned.
Cheyfitz’s lawyer, Luna Droubi, said it’s the latest turn in months of investigations—carried out by different university bodies—into whether Cheyfitz, 84, told a graduate student last semester to drop a class he was teaching about Gaza because the student is Israeli. Cheyfitz, who is Jewish and whose daughter and grandchildren live in Israel, denies the allegation.
The class, titled “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance,” had come under fire from politicians, activists, alumni, and even Cornell’s president, who criticized the course description as “radical” and “biased” in a leaked e-mail last year.
Cheyfitz—who is tenured and holds an endowed chair as the Ernest I. White Professor of American Studies and Humane Letters—is an outspoken advocate for Palestinians and has taught at Cornell for more than two decades. Cheyfitz claimed that the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism. “It’s pretty clear at this point that this is an attempt to get rid of me and the kind of material I teach, particularly material I taught on Gaza,” Cheyfitz said.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/cornell-pro-palestinian-professor-classes-cancelled/
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
@ReichlinMelnick
NEW:
@reuters
uncovers that the Trump admin is prosecuting the LOWEST number of drug trafficking cases in decades.
Why? Because the Trump admin has diverted so many law enforcement resources AWAY from drugs to going after migrants instead!
https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1972646477660123616
Julie Tsirkin
@newsjul.bsky.social
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scoop: Sen Chris Murphy is donating 100k from his political fund to Indivisible — the latest in a series of donations he says total ~1m to progressive organizing groups taking on the Trump admin
Murphy said fellow Dems should take notes to “meet the moment”
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Chris Murphy
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Every major Democrat has millions in their campaign account. The threat to democracy is big enough that we need to be funding mobilization and messaging right now – not just banking money for the next election.
If we don’t build right now, there might not be another election.
NOT ONE DEMOCRAT SHOULD VOTE FOR IT.
PERIOD.
Sahil Kapur
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On
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, Senate Majority Leader Thune digs in on the short-term funding bill, saying negotiations can happen after that at the appropriations level. He likens Democrats to “hostage” takers who are “hijacking” the process to pursue ideological demands. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
post malone ergo propter malone
@proptermalone.bsky.social
I think the state of play here is that a short term clean CR is the only thing the House Rs are capable of jamming Senate Dems with
Aaron Rupar
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TAPPER: Just to be clear, there’s not gonna be any negotiation at this meeting? This is just gonna be you, Thune, and Trump telling Jeffries and Schumer ‘we’re not giving you anything’?
MIKE JOHNSON: I’m telling you where the president’s head is
Senator Patty Murray
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Democrats want to sit down to prevent a shutdown & protect your health care.
Trump and Republicans are cancelling meetings, throwing tantrums, & forcing a shutdown.
Why are they so hell-bent on making sure your health care premiums double next year?
September 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
James E. Clyburn
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Here’s a recap of Trump’s week:
– Spewed false and dangerous claims about Tylenol and childhood vaccines
– Announced new tariffs that will make furniture and home construction more expensive
– Directed the Justice Department to indict James Comey
How does any of this help you?
September 27, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Bloomberg Law
@BLaw
At least a third of senior career leaders have left the Justice Department since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, taking with them centuries of combined expertise, according to a Bloomberg Law analysis.
https://x.com/BLaw/status/1972640078016004137
Fernando Oliver, Esq.
@Fernand46357857
MAGA Melts Down as Bad Bunny Is Named as Next Super Bowl Headliner
https://x.com/Fernand46357857/status/1972654550474543608
Acyn
@Acyn
Oregon AG Rayfield: If you really wanted public safety, you wouldn’t threaten to send the United States military into any city.
What you’d do is pick up the phone and work toward collaboration—finding out what resources a community actually needs.
I know for a fact, from talking to cities across Oregon and across the country, that if you pick up the phone and ask, “What do you need? What could be helpful?” the answer would not be the United States military.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1972370696505598293
Acyn
@Acyn
McMorrow: Meanwhile, farmers are being told, “You’ll be okay because we’re going to bail you out.”
I’ve been all over the state, in some of the reddest and most rural counties. Michiganders do not want a handout. Farmers want to be able to sell their crops, buy farm equipment, and have customers.
Having pennies put back in your pocket while Donald Trump is building ballrooms or filling the Oval Office with gold décor from Home Depot just feels insulting. It is beyond insulting.
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1972405170370994318
Candidly Tiff
@tify330
The last two Government shutdowns happened under Trump with Republicans holding a majority in the House and Senate.
January 2018: 3 days
December 2018- January 2019: 35 days
Republicans do not know how to govern yet you keep electing them. Makes no sense.
https://x.com/tify330/status/1972651392826270020
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