By promoting abortion pills, Democrats have failed women for decades.

As someone whose family once proudly supported the Democratic Party, I mourn the decisions of three Democratic presidents to unleash chemical abortion drugs onto the U.S. market and make a business out of losing lives. Chemical abortion drugs, which claim hundreds of thousands of lives each year, represent the dark legacy of President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, and now President Joe Biden. The government’s actions allowed pills to be sold in ways known to harm women and girls as a financial gift to the powerful interest group of the abortion industry.

The business of chemical abortion drugs in the United States is a federal matter. Reversing the neglect and abuse of power by federal agencies will require leadership and key appointments to undo Democratic gifts to the abortion industry.

President Clinton worked behind the scenes to bring the drug to the U.S. market in 2000, manipulating the levers of federal power and ensuring that keeping women safe was a priority. To expedite this abortion procedure, the FDA considered pregnancy a disease and death from abortion pills a treatment.

Health and Safety Standards (REMS, also known as Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies), established in 2000 to protect mothers, came under attack during Barack Obama’s tenure. President Obama’s FDA Commissioner, Dr. Robert Califf, supported efforts to make life-saving drugs easier to sell. President Joe Biden followed in that footsteps, appointing former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a legal attack dog on pro-life organizations and policies, to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He also brought Khalif back to the FDA for an encore performance.

The FDA knows these pills can kill women. But under the past three Democratic administrations, that fact has become politically irrelevant in pushing for policies that allow for faster online sales.

For example, chemical abortion drugs cannot terminate an ectopic pregnancy in which a human being implants outside the uterus in the fetal state. Combining two pills sold for abortion in the United States causes bleeding that causes women to think their pregnancy is over, when in fact a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy continues. Requiring pregnant women to undergo ultrasounds to determine the location and duration of their pregnancy would save lives, but that requirement is missing from Biden’s FDA-issued REMS.

Also missing are requirements for blood tests and treatment of Rh-negative conditions. Approximately 15% of the population is Rh negative. This means that when blood between mother and child mixes during childbirth, miscarriage, or abortion, antibodies can form in the mother that can attack future pregnancies, even without injections. This means that it can actually lead to infertility. Rh immunoglobulin. However, because there are no blood tests in the world of online distribution, abortion doctors and illegal chemical abortion drug sellers do not offer such treatments.

And the reality is that anonymous online distribution has made chemical abortion drugs a dream drug for abusers and sex traffickers, who have used them on mothers without their knowledge or consent.

The risks of chemical abortion drugs also include injury, infertility, empowered abusers, and environmental harm such as death. As the pills flooded the U.S. market, President Clinton’s FDA accepted an environmental assessment report from the Pro-Abortion Population Council that basically said littering was the only potential problem.

But today, more than 6 out of 10 abortions result in chemically contaminated blood, placental tissue, and human remains being washed into America’s waterways. That’s why Students for Life of America filed a citizen petition with the FDA to stop abortion contamination and is leading a coalition of more than 40 organizations to force the Environmental Protection Agency to stop chemical abortion drugs. They demanded that the chemicals released by the government be tracked.

President Donald Trump has said he will soon announce his position on chemical abortion drugs. To address Democrats’ abuse of federal power, President Trump should take the following steps in his second term:

1. Make key appointments from the Vice President to the Department of Health and Human Services, the FDA, and the Department of Justice to deweaponize and overhaul policy.
2. Requires the Environmental Protection Agency to permanently track the chemical abortion chemicals released into America’s waterways.
3. Requires FDA to conduct clean water and endangered species testing that has been ignored with each change to the chemical abortion REMS.
4. Support health and safety standards for in-person care to address known harms to women and add environmental protections, such as common-sense medical waste disposal requirements to prevent contamination of waterways.
5. Directs the Drug Administration and the Federal Trade Commission to take action against illegal online abortion pill sellers operating in the United States in violation of state law.
6. Ending the Justice Department’s attacks on states and pro-life individuals, a priority of the Biden administration, including the use of pro-life laws like the Comstock Act.
7. Cut taxpayer funding to schools that distribute deadly drugs and abortion providers that profit from reckless distribution.

What better way to stand up to what is perhaps the most politically protected business in the United States, shielded from prosecution, surveillance, environmental oversight, and compliance than by rushing to sell a deadly two-drug cocktail? We will need advocates who care more about . But the abuse of federal power to promote abortion pills must end.

Kristan Hawkins is president of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, which organizes more than 1,400 groups on middle school, high school, college, medical school, and law school campuses in all 50 states.follow her @KristanHawkins Or subscribe to her podcast, Explicitly Pro-Life.

The views expressed in this article are the author’s own.