Rep. Mark Harris fights to crack down on abortion by mail
WASHINGTON, DC — On Friday, Representative Mark Harris (NC-08) introduced the Teleabortion Prevention Act – a bill that would make it a federal offense for doctors to send abortion pills through the mail.
Representative Harris said, “We live in a country where getting an abortion is as easy as walking to your mailbox. Under the radical Biden administration, the chemical abortion industry exploded so that women can now go online and order pills to perform an abortion alone in their homes without any medical supervision.
The Teleabortion Prevention Act would make it a federal offense for abortion providers to send these dangerous pills to women without providing in-person care before, during, and after an abortion. We know abortion is always deadly for the child, and as we work to end all abortion we cannot allow our healthcare system to prey on mothers too.”
This bill is co-sponsored by Rep. Andrew Clyde (GA-09), Rep. Robert Aderholt (AL-04), Rep. Dan Webster (FL-11), Rep. Mary Miller (IL-15), Rep. Michael Cloud (TX-27), Rep. Harriet Hageman (WY-At Large), Rep. Warren Davidson (OH-08), Rep. Bob Onder (MO-03), and Rep. Brandon Gill (TX-26).
Organizations supporting this legislation include March for Life Action, SBA Pro-Life America, Family Research Council, and Heritage Action.
The Hon. Marilyn Musgrave, Vice President of Government Affairs at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, said, “The Biden-Harris FDA recklessly removed in-person dispensing requirements of dangerous abortion drugs, needlessly jeopardizing the health and safety of women and girls. Through telehealth appointments it is impossible to screen for complications, such as ectopic pregnancy, or to screen for coercion and abuse. Thank you, Rep. Harris, for introducing the Teleabortion Prevention Act to protect women and girls and ensure basic patient care."
Mary Szoch, Director of the Center for Human Diginity at Family Research Council, said, “Time and time again the Biden Administration recklessly endangered mothers and their unborn children. Their loosening of the safety requirements around the dangerous drug, mifepristone, allowed for this drug to be prescribed through telemedicine—leaving women on their own to assess the gestational age of their unborn child and whether they had an ectopic pregnancy or needed a RhoGAM shot. Perhaps most disturbingly, the abortion industry’s lies and the Biden Administration’s removal of the safety requirements allowing the drug to be prescribed through telehealth have worked together to convince women that the experience of taking mifepristone will be similar to taking a Tylenol. Nothing could be further from the truth. After taking mifepristone, many women will find themselves bleeding and in excruciating pain as they deliver their clearly recognizable unborn baby into the toilet. One in 25 of these women will end up in the emergency room. Mifepristone is not safe for unborn children or their mothers. It should not be able to be prescribed—let alone prescribed through telehealth. We are grateful to Congressman Harris for his work to protect unborn children and their mothers.”
Janae Stracke, Vice President of Outreach and Advocacy at Heritage Action, said, “Too many women and babies have lost their lives to dangerous and unregulated chemical abortions—with no accountability for negligent health care providers who dispense these drugs remotely. The Teleabortion Prevention Act will assist in saving the lives of thousands of women and their babies. Heritage Action applauds Rep. Mark Harris for leading the effort to protect women and babies from the irreparable harms of abortion.”
Read the full text of the legislation here.
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