The Food and Drug Administration plans to complete its long-awaited review of abortion drugs in mid-December, but the public won’t see the results until March, according to a Wednesday filing from the Justice Department.

The 5th Circuit Court ordered the FDA to provide an update on its abortion pill safety review by Oct. 7, after the Justice Department requested a pause in a case challenging mail-order abortion in Louisiana.

Wednesday’s filing states that the FDA will analyze the data on the abortion pill and draft a final report by March of 2027. That timeline, however, drew complaints from the pro-life movement that the safety review has been slow walked. The update also said the study would use Sentinel Two data, which the FDA itself says has limitations.

“This delay is UNACCEPTABLE,” Live Action President Lila Rose said on X. “Every day, women are put at risk, and preborn children are killed. The FDA must pull the abortion pill from the market NOW.”

According to the Ethics and Public Policy Institute, 11% of women experience adverse effects after taking mifepristone, yet women can order the drug without seeing a doctor.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America President Marjorie Dannenfelser said the administration’s update “should concern every American who cares about unborn babies and women’s safety.”

“Twenty months in, we’re still not seeing the gold-standard study that was promised. Another six months of delay means the loss of 90,000 unborn children who could otherwise be saved,” she said. “The Trump administration must act by settling the case with Louisiana and ending mail-order abortion.”

The state of Louisiana sued the FDA for approving mail-order abortion on behalf of Rosalie Markezich, a young Louisiana woman whose boyfriend coerced her into taking abortion drugs that he ordered from a doctor in California. Alliance Defending Freedom is representing the state.

Gabriella McIntyre, legal counsel for ADF, said nothing in the update prevents the state’s lawsuit from moving forward.

“Nothing in this update does anything to cure the unlawfulness of the 2023 [Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy], which is what we are challenging in our case, and which has all but been conceded by the FDA already that it was unlawful, and so we’re we’ll see what the court does,” she told the Daily Signal.

Since the review will not be completed until spring of next year, it is unlikely that the FDA would be able to act on the results until the next presidential administration, she said.

However, this report did say the FDA expects to complete its process for this review in March of 2027.

“The district court has already held that the harm that Louisiana is suffering by 1,000 babies’ lives being taken by these FDA-approved drugs coming in through the mail every month is irreparable,” she said, “and so every additional month that we continue to wait for this study to progress is another month that Louisiana suffers irreparable harm in the form of 1,000 unborn lives.”

ADF’s request for preliminary relief is pending now in the 5th Circuit, and the district court has discretion as to whether it maintains or lifts the stay based on this information it had requested from the FDA.

“The best case scenario would be for the FDA to enter into a consent decree with Louisiana, knowing that this study is not going to be completed until March of 2027, and that there is a very long regulatory process that comes after that, and we won’t see any sort of relief for many, many months into possibly 2028,” she said.

“The only way to get relief now and to cure the unlawfulness of that 2023 REMS decision, making these drugs available by mail is for the FDA to enter into that consent decree to vacate the 2023 REMS,” she added. “This reinforces the fact that Louisiana is not going to see any sort of relief from this irreparable harm until that happens.”

Vice President JD Vance and the federal Fraud Taskforce held a press conference today announcing their investigative findings of H1B visa abuse and manipulation of green card program by U.S. corporations who hire foreign workers over Americans. During the press conference, JD Vance announced that Microsoft and Adobe have been suspended from the H1B visa […]

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The West has lost faith in itself, embracing an ideology of mediocrity rather than its God-given inheritance of self-government, prosperity, and excellence.

When Secretary of State Marco Rubio delivered a clarion call for the West to re-embrace its heritage, amid a backdrop of the Parthenon in Athens on Wednesday, he simultaneously indicted the universities, activist nonprofits, bureaucracies, and cultural institutions that have spent decades teaching Western nations to be ashamed of their own history, borders, faith, and achievements.

Rubio did not name these institutions directly, but he condemned the underlying assumptions they have promoted throughout America and the West.

The Woke Malaise

Rubio contrasted the ancient Greek “thumos”—the “fire of passion, strength, courage, pride” that helps civilizations succeed—with the current malaise often associated with the “woke” movement.

“Over time, we in the West came to feel ashamed of the very things that made us exceptional,” he warned, noting the tearing down of monuments. “We felt embarrassed that our achievements set us apart from the rest of the world. Our prosperity somehow became a source of guilt. We no longer believed we deserved and had earned our greatness.”

Rubio warned that modern ideologies seem to aim at “a world of perfect safety, devoid of risk or failure, with neither the glory of victory nor the shame of defeat.” He lamented that such an approach leads the West to “design our standards to ensure that no one will lose,” and ultimately “hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average, the ordinary, the mediocre.”

It was an excellent condemnation of the ideology behind “diversity, equity, and inclusion.” Rubio wasn’t just rejecting the mentality that says we must count every university applicant or every member of a corporate boardroom by race, sex, and sexual orientation; he was condemning the underlying assumption that America is inherently biased against certain groups and that we must atone for this national sin by elevating them.

This critical race theory isn’t cloistered away in some isolated ivory tower. It recently held sway in the commanding heights of American culture, and its institutional framework persists even today.

The Architecture of ‘Woke’

The West didn’t lose faith in its own good heritage organically. A powerful network of universities, foundations, activist nonprofits, teachers unions, corporate DEI offices, media organizations, and government bureaucracies have championed these corrosive ideas, establishing them as the new bedrock for a competing belief system.

These institutions taught young Westerners that patriotism is suspicious, borders are unjust, Christianity is oppressive, merit is privilege, and national sovereignty is an obstacle to progress.

These ideas eventually found their way into corporate America through ESG initiatives and into government through activist nonprofits and bureaucracies. Together, these institutions constructed the framework that enabled the “Great Awokening” after George Floyd’s death in 2020.

The constellation of ideologies I define as “woke”—critical race theory, transgender ideology, climate alarmism, and a preference for technocratic government—took hold in the administration of President Joe Biden.

President Trump signed executive orders opposing DEI, but the ideology persists in some corporations and influential nonprofits. Should another left-leaning president take residence in the White House in 2029, I have little doubt this ideology will come roaring back into federal policy.

Immigration, Bureaucracy, and Christianity

Rubio’s comments on migration point to another institutional failure—the ideology that fails to distinguish between legal immigrants who seek to honor our civilization and illegal immigrants who disobey our country’s laws.

Under Biden, a system of immigration nonprofits, many of which received millions in taxpayer dollars, settled migrants across the country, seemingly without care for their legal status. This Immigration Industrial Complex represents a threat to America’s good heritage, and taxpayers unwittingly footed the bill for much of it.

Rubio also rightly warned about the West outsourcing its sovereignty to “global bureaucracies.”

This impulse became visible during the COVID-19 pandemic, when unelected experts often insisted that their own scientific authority should override democratic debate, revealing a preference for technocratic government “by experts” rather than the self-government that shapes the West’s character.

Rubio didn’t just defend the nation-state, however. He defended the civilizational roots of the West’s understanding of human dignity, liberty, and self-government. He proved himself unapologetic about the Christian roots of Western civilization, rejecting the fashionable tendency to treat Christianity as merely another private preference rather than a foundation for the development of liberty, natural law, and self-government.

Rubio’s speech also identified the source of the West’s crisis.

Our civilization did not spontaneously decide that its history was shameful, its borders unjust, its religion oppressive, and its achievements suspect. Marxism’s long march through the institutions did that.

If the West is to recover its confidence, dismantling the policies of what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has already branded “Woke 1.0” won’t be enough. We must confront the institutional architecture that produced them in the first place.

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