Sinta Jimenez, host of The Pro-Life American and Director of Digital Strategy at SBA Pro-Life America, sits down with her colleague Abigail Balmert, Director of Legal Affairs and Policy Counsel at SBA, to discuss the new FDA update on abortion drugs released in October 2026.

Abigail describes a five-page court-ordered status report on the safety of mifepristone. Data collection is expected to wrap up in mid-December, with a final report no later than March 2027. She notes that then-Commissioner Makary said the study was underway in January 2025, and that a deadline told to a judge is more reliable than one given only to the public, though an extension would not be a surprise.

They discuss pressure to restore in-person dispensing after the FDA conceded that earlier data was not sufficient to remove that requirement, the risks of remote dispensing for ectopic pregnancy and gestational age, and reports of women who only filled out an online form. Sinta compares the lack of oversight to the opioid crisis. Abigail says SBA president Marjorie Dannenfelser has urged the administration to restore in-person dispensing immediately through a consent decree in the federal case against Louisiana, and that the Department of Justice also has enforcement pathways independent of the FDA study.

Abigail then explains a Supreme Court filing in which Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas are suing New York, California, and Massachusetts over shield laws, arguing violations of the full faith and credit clause, equal sovereignty among the states, the dormant commerce clause, and the federal common law of public nuisance. A second lawsuit in the Western District of Louisiana names individuals and web-based entities prescribing and shipping abortion drugs. Sinta describes packaging from a Memphis, Tennessee pregnancy center visitor that looked like a greeting card, with little baggies, a mismatched return address, and a local library listed.

Asked what Congress can do, Abigail points to Senator Banks signaling that the FDA is being watched, and to Congress's power over the FDCA. On Marjorie's description of the update as fool's gold, Abigail says a solid study must be rigorous, rooted in science, and not rely on low voluntary adverse-event reporting. She cites researcher Studnicki, who used insurance records to find women who took the drugs and then presented within 30 days with miscarriage-related coding. Abigail closes by saying common ground should be proper regulation of medicine, protecting women from ectopic rupture, wrong gestational age, and abortion drugs used against women who want the baby.

Sinta Jimenez welcomes Haile McAnally to The Pro-Life American Podcast. Haile traveled from Nebraska to Washington, D.C. to share her experience with lawmakers and to speak about the risks women should understand when it comes to abortion drugs.

Haile describes growing up in a Christian household in Nebraska and dating someone she thought she would marry. At 19 she told him she was pregnant. He asked what she was going to do about it and hung up, and she has not talked to him since. She says she was not aware pregnancy centers existed, was not comfortable going to church, and remembers the pink Planned Parenthood signs that made it feel like sisterhood.

At Planned Parenthood she was ushered into a room with a doctor on a screen, not in person, and a nurse beside her with consent forms. No physical review was done. She was told she would take one abortion drug in the clinic and one at home, with some discomfort, cramping, and bleeding. She did not look at the ultrasound. At home, alone, she began heavily bleeding, grew weak, could not reach her phone, and thought that was how her story would end. A friend found her and called 911. She woke up in the hospital and needed a blood transfusion.

She talks about the depression that followed, wanting to stay silent, and later finding compassion, forgiveness, and a voice in church communities rather than the sisterhood the pink signs had promised. She ran for the Nebraska state legislature in 2021. In 2023 she testified for the first time, on a six-week bill brought by state senator Joni Albright, after being escorted through a hostile crowd at the Capitol.

Asked what she wishes she had known, Haile says there is hope, and that women can message her or someone at Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America for resources. In Washington she calls on lawmakers to stop mail-order abortion drugs, saying a woman needs to go into a clinic and see a medical professional, and that the first step has to be the safety of women. Sinta notes that Senator Bernie Moreno released a letter asking for the end of mail-order abortion drugs.

Sinta Jimenez, Director of Digital Strategy for SBA Pro-Life America, sits down in Iowa with Austin Stubbs, Iowa campaign manager, on The Pro-Life American Podcast.

Austin talks about what it will take to get Republicans to come out and vote party line in the midterms: making sure voters know this is an essential and consequential election, that it is not one to take off, and that people show up and make their voice heard on November 3rd.

They also cover friction points in mobilizing the base, including frustration over cost of living, affordability, and foreign policy, and the need to stay connected on core values that differ from the other party and the other candidates on the ballot.

Cinta asks whether Iowans know that abortions are up in America and whether they are aware of the abortion drug crisis. Austin says a large percent, probably a majority, still think abortions are on the decline because of Iowa's legislation and policies. He says that is not the case, that the abortion industry pivoted, and that 60% is done via abortion drugs.

Out in the counties, Austin describes shock when Iowans hear about mail-order abortion drugs, coercion, abortion drugs slipped into food or water, and human remains found in the water filtration system. He says another astonished reaction comes when people hear that 10 states plus DC have no limits on abortion, and that the United States is one of six or seven countries in the world, including communist China, to allow this.