Poll: 7 in 10 of Americans are against mail-order abortion without a doctor visit

By Tate Miller
The Center Square

A national poll shows that seven in 10 “likely voters” think a doctor visit for an abortion pill prescription should be required and many are concerned about the harm to women and lack of transparency that’s associated with the pill, with the majority of those surveyed being pro-choice.

President Marjorie Dannenfelser of pro-life organization Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America told The Center Square: “Whether they consider themselves pro-life or pro-choice, conservative, liberal or neither, voters strongly reject the Biden scheme of mail-order abortion drugs without even so much as an in-person visit to a doctor.”

“It is just so obvious that allowing unregulated drugs to flood every state, from hundreds or even thousands of miles away, shows a total lack of common sense,” Dannenfelser said.

Dannenfelser told The Center Square that the concerns those surveyed have about the abortion drug mifepristone are “well founded.”

Those surveyed are worried about “the harm to women and girls from coercion and abuse,” Dannenfelser said, “as well as the need for real transparency and informed consent on the risk of complications like hemorrhage, infection, sepsis – in some cases even death.”

Dannenfelser added that there is also “new research suggesting as many as 11% of women who take abortion drugs suffer serious adverse effects.”

Dannenfelser told The Center Square that “the Trump administration does have the power to do something about” this abortion pill issue.

“At a minimum, they can halt Biden’s dangerous COVID policy of mail-order abortion drugs immediately and reinstate the safeguards they had in place before, like doctor visits, while conducting a thorough review of the evidence that shows abortion drugs are not safe for anyone,” Dannenfelser said.

“As Secretary Kennedy revealed, the Biden administration ‘twisted’ data to bury safety signals for the sake of an agenda,” Dannenfelser said.

McLaughlin & Associates conducted the national survey that showed “a strong consensus among voters” that a prescription for the abortion drug mifepristone should only be acquired after an in-person doctor’s visit.

According to the survey, an in-person doctor visit was required for a chemical abortion under Presidents Clinton through Trump, but “Biden removed that safeguard,” causing a dramatic rise in harmful and serious effects to mothers.

McLaughlin & Associates did not respond to two requests for comment.

As a Susan B. Anthony press release stated, the amount of likely voters who are against an abortion pill prescription without a doctor’s visit equals seven in 10, with the majority of this number being pro-choice.

“Similarly, 7 in 10 voters agree it ‘makes sense’ to bring back safeguards that were removed by Biden’s FDA,” the release said.

Family Research Council’s Policy Analyst for the Center for Human Dignity Joy Stockbauer told The Center Square that the results of the McLaughlin & Associates poll “reveal to us that even those who identify as pro-choice recognize that Democrats have radically endangered women by removing safeguards on mifepristone.”

“In-person dispensing is a commonsense rule that protects women from medical complications like undiagnosed ectopic pregnancies, as well as reducing instances of abusers obtaining these drugs and slipping them to women without their consent or knowledge,” Stockbauer said.

“While the dangerous complications associated with mifepristone demand a safety reevaluation from the FDA and total removal of the drug from the market, the very least that the FDA could do to protect women – and the obviously politically expedient thing to do – is reinstate the original safety protocols like in-person dispensing that were in place when the drug was first approved,” Stockbauer told The Center Square.

Susan B. Anthony’s Marjorie Dannenfelser stressed to The Center Square that it is possible for a woman to save her baby after taking mifepristone.

“Thousands of women have been treated with safe, effective Abortion Pill Reversal and went on to have healthy babies – with better success rates than just waiting – but acting fast is critical,” Dannenfelser said, while referring readers to AbortionPillReversal.com