By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal. (Photo: Olga DeLawrence/Unsplash)
A coalition of 60 lawmakers filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit to limit the abortion pill after the Trump administration requested a pause to the case, The Daily Signal can first report.
On Friday, 58 Republican representatives and senators, led by Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, filed the amicus brief in support of Louisiana’s effort to restore the in-person dispensing requirement on the abortion pill.
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A coalition of 60 lawmakers filed an amicus brief supporting a lawsuit to limit the abortion pill after the Trump administration requested a pause to the case, The Daily Signal can first report.
On Friday, 58 Republican representatives and senators, led by Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana and Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey, filed the amicus brief in support of Louisiana’s effort to restore the in-person dispensing requirement on the abortion pill.
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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill filed a lawsuit in 2025 challenging a Biden-era rule allowing abortion drugs to be dispensed to women through the mail without seeing a doctor first. A hearing for State of Louisiana v. Food and Drug Administration is scheduled for Feb. 24.
Ahead of the hearing, President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice asked a federal court to pause Louisiana’s case against the Food and Drug Administration while the agency conducts a safety review into the abortion drug mifepristone.
“I thank Attorney General Murrill for defending women and babies in Louisiana and across the country. Chemical abortion drugs kill innocent children and put mothers’ lives at risk,” said Cassidy, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. “Safeguards protecting against coercion, such as the in-person dispensing requirement, must be reinstated immediately.”