For a few days this month, it looked like the abortion pill might stop arriving by mail.

On May 1, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals sided with Louisiana and reinstated the rule that mifepristone, the first drug in a chemical abortion, must be dispensed in person.

One Alabama outlet reported that abortion was now “effectively inaccessible” in our state.

It didn’t last.

On May 14, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the Fifth Circuit’s order. Mifepristone can once again be prescribed online and shipped by mail while the case continues. Justices Alito and Thomas dissented.

The case now goes back to the Fifth Circuit, and it will likely end up at the Supreme Court again.

In the meantime, the pills keep coming.

The Numbers Behind the Mail

According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, citing the #WeCount study, about 91,000 telehealth abortions were provided to people in states with so-called “total bans” in 2025.

Alabama is one of those states.

Each of those numbers is a child. A son or daughter who would be in a car seat or a high chair today.

Stand up for them. Sign the petition to End Abortion in Alabama.

Washington Was Never the Answer

Court rulings that slow the killing are welcome. But we should be honest about what this fight in the courts can and can’t do.

It is a fight over federal drug rules. Even a total win would only change how one pill is dispensed. It would not declare that the child in the womb is a person who deserves justice.

That responsibility belongs to Alabama.

Our state already defines a person as “a human being, including an unborn child in utero at any stage of development, regardless of viability.” Yet our law still says abortion is not murder.

Alabama doesn’t need permission from the FDA, the Fifth Circuit, or the Supreme Court to fix that. Our legislators can pass the Equal Protection Act and protect preborn children with the same homicide laws that protect everyone else.

Scripture calls civil rulers to “do justice to the afflicted and needy” (Psalm 82:3). That duty doesn’t wait for the next court date.

Don’t Wait for the Next Ruling

The next court decision could help or hurt. Either way, children are dying in Alabama while we wait.

Ask your legislators: Will you cosponsor the Equal Protection Act?

Add your name to the petition today.

Sources: NPR, SCOTUSblog, Alabama Political Reporter