40 pastors urge Trump to crack down on abortion pills mailed to pro-life states

August 1, 2025

Forty pastors and regional leaders within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) have signed a letter to the Trump administration calling for a crackdown on individuals who mail abortion pills to states with abortion restrictions.

The Christian Post reports that the letter sent to President Donald Trump earlier this week asks him “to stop the mail-order distribution of the abortion drug mifepristone, which now accounts for more than 60 percent of all U.S. abortions.”

The letter goes on to say, “Shield laws in pro-abortion states now protect providers who illegally ship mifepristone into prolife states, in direct violation of federal law.”

The letter singles out abortionist Margaret Carpenter who shipped abortion pills to Louisiana and Texas and laments that governors like New York’s Kathy Hochul refuse to allow extradition.

According to the Christian Post, signatories to the letter are urging Trump to restore U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protocols for mifepristone, which were loosened during the Biden administration.

The signers of the letter also urge Trump to direct the FDA to reassess approval of the drug and to order the Department of Justice (DOJ) “to enforce the Comstock Act to protect states’ rights to uphold pro-life laws.”

The letter was spearheaded by Tony Perkins, president of the Washington-based Christian conservative advocacy organization the Family Research Council.

Perkins told the Christian Post, “If the president wants to be consistent with the statements he’s made” regarding the right of states to ban abortion in nearly all circumstances, “then the FDA needs to change its policy and the DOJ needs to enforce Comstock.”

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