In this week’s round-up, we have a liberal group taking aim at Idaho pro-life ministries, a dictatorial governor attempting to suppress religious liberty, and evidence that the federal government relied on faulty data when loosening regulations around chemical abortion.
1. Chemical abortion drug causes serious health complications for mothers, new study says
Mifepristone – the primary drug used in chemical abortions – may be far more dangerous than once believed.
According to a recent report from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, as many as 10.93% of women who undergo chemical abortions experience severe medical complications—including hemorrhaging, infection, and sepsis—often requiring emergency room care.
This study comes on the heels of Martin Makary, recently appointed Food and Drug Administration commissioner, announcing that the FDA would use new data to determine whether the administration should revisit mifepristone regulations.
In response to the EPPC study, Idaho Family Policy Center joined a letter – drafted by Family Research Council, one of our national partners – calling on the Trump Administration to reverse Biden-era regulations allowing chemical abortion drugs to be mailed through the postal service without doctor visits.
Our letter notes the danger that chemical abortion poses to women, and asked the Trump administration to consider revoking FDA approval for mifepristone, which is now responsible for over 60% of all abortions performed in the United States.
“States must be empowered to enforce pro-life laws, all the original safety protocols on mifepristone must be restored, and the FDA must investigate mifepristone, reconsidering its approval altogether,” our letter concluded. “The lives of women and unborn children and the rights of states depend upon it.”
2. Out-of-state pro-abortion activism group targets Idaho pregnancy resource centers
The Campaign for Accountability – a Washington, DC-based pro-abortion group that routinely attacks pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) – is continuing its crusade against Idaho ministries that offer life affirming care to mothers and families facing unexpected pregnancies.
The group asserts that the Open Arms pregnancy resource center in Hayden and Reliance Center in Lewiston are lying to mothers about privacy and data security. It filed a complaint with Idaho AG Raul Labrador, asking him to investigate the PRCs under the Idaho Consumer Protection Act.
Thomas More Society, a Catholic religious freedom organization who represents the PRCs, argues:
“[The Campaign for Accountability] does not pretend to have found any evidence that either center makes any factually false statement, and neither [pregnancy resource center] knows of any Idaho resident who has ever claimed to be misled by anything the client has written or said.”
Heather Lawless, founder and CEO of Reliance Center, explained that the Campaign for Accountability is “grasping at straws” by targeting Idaho PRCs.
“This is not their first targeted attack on the work that we do,” Ms. Lawless explained while discussing the bullying tactics of the Campaign for Accountability.
But Ms. Lawless seems unconcerned by the feeble attempts of the campaign saying, “This is not about consumer protection—it’s about silencing a viewpoint. But we aren’t backing down.”
3. Kansas legislature overrides governor; ensures religious liberty for foster families
Kansas foster families will no longer be discriminated against on religious grounds, despite the efforts of Democratic Governor Laura Kelly.
Governor Kelly initially vetoed Kansas House Bill 2311 – which protects foster parents with traditional religious beliefs regarding sexuality – but state legislators later successfully voted to override her veto.
The new law will make it easier to place foster children with families who share biblical values. As Brittany Jones of Kansas Family Voice, the lead advocate for HB 2311 and our state partner in Kansas, explained:
“Kansas has an astronomically high number of children waiting to be placed in foster care. . . We also knew our governor was hostile to people of faith fostering and adopting. . . A family came forward and let us know they had been denied because of their beliefs about sexuality and marriage.”
Governor Kelly may be hostile to people of faith—but at least the Kansas legislature is looking out for foster children and the religious freedom of foster parents, even if it takes standing up to their governor.
4. States contemplate legalizing assisted suicide
The fight for human life continues—but this time, the debate focuses on end-of-life protections.
According to Compassion & Choice, a nonprofit organization, at least 18 state legislatures have considered legalizing assisted suicide in 2025.
These “medical aid in dying” bills insist that terminally ill patients have the right to kill themselves with assistance from doctors—turning the Hippocratic Oath on its head by making medical professionals complicit in the murder of their patients.
While most of the assisted suicide bills were dead on arrival upon introduction, the bills in New York and Illinois are working through the legislative process, and the Delaware legislation just needs the governor’s signature to become law.
According to assisted suicide advocates, these proposals have “safeguards” in place to prevent abuses of the system—but in reality, those safeguards are far from adequate to protect the chronically ill from abuses of the system.
Terminal patients are often coerced or pressured into medical suicide by family and friends. And frighteningly, there have even been instances where insurance companies refused to pay for any alternatives to suicide, leaving little choice to patients.
While some states embrace the lie that assisted suicide is humane, most states continue to reject the idea. This year, the State of Maryland refused to authorize medical suicide for the eighth time.
