There was shocking news of a wrongful death lawsuit in Texas recently. A woman reported that the man who had impregnated her and verbally pushed for her to have an abortion—after she hesitated to have an abortion—secretly “spiked her drink with abortion pills.”
According to news of the lawsuit, the man intentionally laced her “hot chocolate, … with nearly a dozen abortion pills, (and) killed her unborn baby April 5,” which also sent this woman to the hospital. If any of that is true, it is a horrific act committed against this woman and her unborn child.
Unfortunately, this atrocious story is indicative of other major problems unleashed on women, children and society as a result of the widespread availability of pharmaceutical abortion.
In years past, to have an abortion, a woman went to an abortion center and a medical person tragically ended the life of the baby. Today, abortion comes in the form of a pill and is often taken as a self-managed abortion, tragically ending the life of a child and potentially harming the woman.
One Christian leader compared this trend toward pharmaceutical abortion to that of pornography. It used to be that those seeking pornography would have to go to a seedy store to obtain it. Now, pornography is everywhere on the Internet and pushed into the home. In the same way, abortion is no longer at an abortion center, it’s everywhere and into homes.
Christians rightly rejoiced when Roe v. Wade was overturned, and we rightly rejoice at the closure of surgical abortion facilities. At the same time, we recognize that so-called “medical abortions” are surging and have become the dominant form of abortion.
In his popular podcast, “The Briefing,” Albert Mohler discussed another shocking news story related to this. According to a news story cited by Mohler, “An abortion provider, (from Great Britain) … shipped almost 120,000 packs of abortion pills to U.S. residents between July 2023 and August 2024. Nearly 100,000 of them lived in states that outlaw the procedure or have laws on the books that ban the mailing of abortion pills.”
Mohler went on to call the abortion pill “human pesticide” because “it is a pill designed to end an unborn human life.” He added, “The culture of death seems to find its way to very successful, very deadly strategies. And this is one of those cases.”
What can Christians do about this? Certainly, we must ask our lawmakers to shore up our public policy to disallow these abortion pills from ever coming to our states. We must outlaw the trafficking of these deadly, harmful, poisonous medications. We must contend for life in persuasive ways.
We also must get involved where we are too. If you want to make a difference for the unborn, you can pray, volunteer at your local crisis pregnancy center, and participate in events like the Rose Day Pro-Life Rally on Feb. 4, 2026 (visit roseday.life for more information).
Also, you can help people prayerfully and financially who are vulnerable to abortion, and get involved in supporting foster care and adoption. Finally, we must speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves.
By God’s grace, abortion, even pharmaceutical abortion, will become a relic of history, much like slavery in our nation. In the meantime, we must do our all—together—as believers to make a difference for the unborn.
