The Trump Admin’s Refusal to Act on Mail-Order Abortion Drugs Is Personal for Me

Meet the People Fueling Chaos in Minneapolis, New York, and Beyond 

Canadian ‘Human Rights’ Tribunal Reveals the Insidious Threat of Transgender Ideology

‘Judicial Activism’ Struck Down Trump’s Tariffs, GOP Supporters of the Tariffs Say After Divided SCOTUS Decision

Trump Administration Keeps Vast Number of Guns From Mexican Cartels

Why Are Anti-ICE Activists Building Borders?

EXCLUSIVE: Heritage Says States Should Charge Tuition to Illegal Alien Children

Wisconsin Residents Reject ‘Minnesota Nice’ on Immigration

 InternationalCommentary

Cracking Down on China’s Trade Cheating the Right Way

Time for Denmark and the United States to Secure Greenland

Daughter Pleads for Father’s Release From Chinese Prison 

What to Expect in PLA Activities Near Taiwan Leading Up to Trump and Xi Summit

Conservatives Look to Protect Truckers From ‘Unqualified’ Illegal Immigrant Drivers

House to Vote on Trump’s War Powers

Democrats Make Pick to Respond to Trump’s SOTU Address

Republicans Fear Midterm Loss After Gonzales Denies Affair

ACLU Looks to Dismantle Ohio Election Integrity Law

Largest ‘Precinct’: Why Some Mail Ballots Travel Across State Lines Before Counting Begins

Schumer Vows to Fight Supposed ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ Bill With Policy 83% of Americans Support

‘Want to Cheat’: Noem Rips ‘Conspiracy Theories’ Against SAVE America Act

‘War Was Visited Upon These People’: Play About Oct. 7 Comes to DC

Are Americans Being Radicalized Online and Converting to Islam?

International Analysis

Why Is the Iran Regime on the Verge of Collapse?

Trump Envoy Announces Next Phase of Gaza Peace Plan 

Meet the People Fueling Chaos in Minneapolis, New York, and Beyond 

OH BABY! Couples Could Make Big Money on Trump Accounts

What Comes Next for Venezuela? State Department Official Explains

ICE Operations: What Americans Actually Want  

International Commentary

Victor Davis Hanson: Rubio Tells Europe What It Needs to Hear

EXPOSED: Taxpayers Paying for Democrat Activists’ Grad School Tuition

Trump, Beware—These ‘Unforced Errors’ Could Hand Democrats a Midterm Win

China’s Quiet Infiltration of America

The Trump Admin’s Refusal to Act on Mail-Order Abortion Drugs Is Personal for Me

Mifepristone, an abortion drug. (Soumyabrata Roy/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Jessica Williams is a registered nurse, mother and compassionate advocate for life and life?affirming care including Abortion Pill Reversal (APR).

I never thought in a million years I would be telling my own abortion story.

I’m an ER nurse. I’ve built my career on saving lives—running codes, stopping hemorrhages, stabilizing patients when seconds matter. Abortion was never something I imagined intersecting with my life. It was something that happened somewhere else, to someone else.

As Congress demands answers from the Trump administration and the Federal Drug Administration about mail-order abortion drug safety data and oversight—with lawmakers like Sens. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., and Bill Cassidy, R-La., calling for investigations—I read those headlines differently.

For me, this isn’t theoretical. It’s about what happened when abortion drugs were just a few clicks away, no in-person exam required, and I was under pressure at home.

I was separated from my husband and preparing for a divorce when I became pregnant. When I told him, he didn’t rage. He gave me an ultimatum: abort the baby, or he would fight to take our other children from me. He made it clear he would use custody as leverage unless I “fixed” the situation.

That threat—losing my children—is what broke me. He insisted I would be “saving multiple lives vs only one fetus.”

His pressure was constant: “The clock is ticking.” “Order the pills.” “Get it done.” I was already emotionally exhausted from a failing marriage. Now I was terrified of a custody battle that could upend my children’s lives. I had my first panic attack. I spent days in my room, barely functioning.

Eventually, under the pressures, mental distress and threat of losing my other children, I lost sight of the risks & caved to the demands of my ex-husband. I ordered the abortion drugs online.

There was no in-person appointment. No ultrasound. No physical exam. No private screening for coercion. Not even a video call with a provider. My entire communication was via a chat app.

The drugs were mailed to a hotel across state lines and I drove there to retrieve them. I took the first round of drugs under my ex-husband’s surveillance. He was there to confirm I actually did it.

It broke my heart because, as a nurse, I understood what I was holding. I knew the risks: heavy bleeding, retained tissue, infection, and possible need for emergency intervention. 

I was borderline anemic at the time. That increases the risk of significant blood loss. In a hospital setting, that history would prompt careful counseling and evaluation. Instead, I received a brief chat message noting I might have heavier bleeding and should reach out if it was excessive.

No one assessed me in person. No one reviewed labs. No one ensured I wasn’t being threatened at home.

After I took the first round of drugs, my nursing background kicked in. I couldn’t stop picturing what they would do to me—intentionally triggering contractions, potentially delivering my baby alone in a bathroom, watching a tiny body outside the womb because of a decision I made under duress.

I had enough. I couldn’t take the second round of drugs. I refused despite all of the pressure, insistence, and fear. I would not be pressured anymore.

Out of the shadow of my ex-husband, I scheduled an ultrasound at a local pregnancy center. I will never forget that moment while there—seeing a heartbeat still there. Strong and steady. My baby was still alive!

I started a progesterone regimen in an attempt to counteract the effects of the first drug.

When my ex-husband found out, he told me to “finish the job.” The custody threats resurfaced. He drove me to an abortion center. But I couldn’t walk through those doors. I had already come face-to-face with the reality of what I was about to lose.

Months later, I delivered a healthy baby girl: Kaylie Grace.

The first time I saw her face, I fell completely in love. I named her Grace as a reminder—to give myself grace for the choice I almost made when I felt cornered and afraid.

Today she is joyful, spunky, and healthy. Her older siblings adore her. The very children I was told I might lose are still with me and cherish the sister who nearly wasn’t here.

As lawmakers scrutinize the oversight of mail-order abortion drugs, I hope they understand this: when these powerful drugs are prescribed and shipped without in-person evaluation, there is no safeguard against coercion.

In emergency medicine, we are trained to screen for intimate partner violence. We separate patients from controlling partners. We ask direct questions: Are you safe? Is anyone pressuring you? That cannot be done through a checkbox or chatbot.

Mail-order abortion was presented to me as convenient, simple, empowering. In reality, it made it easier for someone to pressure me quickly and privately. It removed the human interaction that might have uncovered the threats hanging over my head.

I used to think abortion would never touch my life. 

This isn’t an abstract policy fight. It’s about whether we treat abortion drugs like a casual consumer product—or like what they are: powerful drugs that are designed to end one life and have real risks for the other life. 

I am still healing. I still sometimes cry and whisper apologies when Kaylie Grace is asleep. I’m overwhelmed with the gratitude that she is here.

I am an ER nurse. I understand risk. I understand informed consent. And I know this: No one should be able to obtain these high-risk drugs through the mail.

We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal.

Pro-Life Movement Gains Traction With Young Adults, Polls Show

The Early, Ideological Diversity of the Pro-Life Movement

Top 25 Signs at the March for Life 2026

Read the first chapter of The Woketopus right now for FREE

Today, even with President Trump’s victory, leftist elites have their tentacles in every aspect of our government.

The Daily Signal’s own Tyler O’Neil exposes this leftist cabal in his new book, The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.

In this book, O’Neil reveals how the Left’s NGO apparatus pursues its woke agenda, maneuvering like an octopus by circumventing Congress and entrenching its interests in the federal government.

You can read the first chapter of this new book for FREE in this eBook, The Woketopus: Chapter One using the secure link below.

The Tony Kinnett Cast

The Daily Signal Podcast

© 2025 The Daily Signal Media Group, Inc. All rights reserved.

We use cookies on our website. By using our website, you consent to cookies.  Learn More .  

© The Daily Signal