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 Senator 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.
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.”
Louisiana filed the lawsuit alongside resident Rosalie Markezich, who says her boyfriend coerced her into taking abortion pills, which he ordered from a doctor in California. While Louisiana law prohibits abortions in almost all cases, the lack of an in-person dispensing requirement on the drugs allowed him to obtain the drugs out of state through the mail.
The GOP lawmakers argue that Biden violated federal law by removing the in-person dispensing requirement, and that these protections should be reinstated.
