Blue state shield laws allowed 330K abortion pills to be sent to abortion ban states, pro-life group finds
EXCLUSIVE: A pro-life group has released a new report marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, finding that nearly 330,000 abortion pills have been shipped...
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EXCLUSIVE: A pro-life group has released a new report marking the anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, finding that nearly 330,000 abortion pills have been shipped to states with abortion restrictions since the summer of 2023 under the protection of blue state shield laws, which the report says enabled abortion numbers in several conservative states to remain at or above pre-Dobbs levels. In the report obtained by Fox News Digital, the Restoration of America Foundation (ROAF) said more than 328,000 abortion pills have been sent into states with abortion restrictions from out-of-state between July 2023 and December 2025, citing the Society of Family Planning's #WeCount data project. According to the report, monthly shipments of chemical abortion pills into pro-life states nearly tripled during that period, jumping from 5,400 pills sent in July 2023 to 14,870 in December 2025. The report concluded that out-of-state abortion providers send nearly 15,000 chemical abortion pills per month to states with abortion restrictions. This comes after the nation's highest court overturned the landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade on June 24, 2022, returning the power to make laws on abortion access back to the states. PRO-LIFE GROUP FINDS BIDEN-ERA FDA POLICY IS DRIVING 500 ABORTIONS PER DAY, SAYS TRUMP HAS POWER TO END IT In an interview with Fox News Digital, ROAF CEO Doug Truax said the Biden administration eased safety standards for abortion medication and "pro-death" Democrats adopted shield laws to protect providers in blue states from being prosecuted by red state governments. "Years ago, the pro-death Biden administration and the pro-death Democrat Party writ large … they knew what we knew: that Roe was bad law, and it was going to go," he said. "And so they started thinking ahead of what they're going to do here." Truax accused the Biden administration of loosening safety standards around Mifepristone – "the abortion pill." "It used to be that y…