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Kristen Waggoner@KristenWaggoner · Oct 15, 2025

🧵 In 2023, Rosalie Markezich became pregnant. She wanted to keep her baby. Her boyfriend did not. Ignoring her…

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Rosalie Markezich sued the FDA alongside Louisiana's Attorney General over mail-order abortion drugs, claiming her boyfriend coerced her into an abortion using FDA-approved pills sent without in-person doctor oversight. The lawsuit challenges 2023 FDA policy changes that eliminated requirements for in-person dispensing of abortion drugs, arguing the policy enabled coercion and lacked adequate safety studies.

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    🧵 In 2023, Rosalie Markezich became pregnant. She wanted to keep her baby. Her boyfriend did not. Ignoring her wishes, the boyfriend ordered FDA-approved abortion drugs online. Prescribed by a California doctor who never once spoke to his “patient,” the drugs arrived by mail to Rosalie’s home in Louisiana—a state where the law protects unborn life. At first Rosalie resisted her boyfriend’s pressure. Then, one day, she found herself confined in a car with him in a location unknown to her friends. Even as she pleaded “Don’t make me do this,” her boyfriend’s anger escalated until, terrified, Rosalie finally agreed to his demand. He watched as she downed the pills. She hoped to escape from him to vomit them up, but it was too late: the abortion drugs killed her baby. She’s still grieving. This month, on behalf of Rosalie and together with Louisiana @AGLizMurrill, we sued the FDA for its mail-order abortion scheme, which made this coerced abortion possible. ⬇️

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    Our case challenges the unlawful & politically motivated changes FDA made to its safeguards in 2023: notably, ending the requirement to dispense abortion drugs in person. @SecKennedy recently stated—correctly—that the Biden FDA did this without adequately studying safety risks.

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    Allowing high-risk drugs to be dispensed by mail, without a personal doctor/patient interaction, is reckless. Doing so without proper safety studies, and with the intent to undermine state law, is unlawful. Rosalie and her child are just two of many to pay the price.

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    Learn more about Louisiana & Rosalie’s case against the FDA from @ADFLegal: adflegal.org/press-release/… Watch Rosalie’s story: youtube.com/watch?v=PyC1_m…