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WSR: 2026-05-13

By Katherine Van Dyke

American Life League recently wrote about the back-and-forth legal battle over whether the abortion pill, mifepristone, can be mailed to those receiving telehealth prescriptions. After the Fifth Circuit Court suspended the mailing of the abortion pill on May 1, the US Supreme Court put a temporary pause on this ruling through May 11. However, the Supreme Court placed another pause through May 14, allowing abortion drugs to continue flowing through the mailing system at the hands of “abortion providers” such as Planned Parenthood.

Unsurprisingly, Planned Parenthood’s affiliates began to announce—almost immediately after the initial ruling—how they would work around this new ruling to ensure that women are able to murder their babies easily if the court’s ruling stood. Some of these affiliates seemingly appeared to ignore the court order from the start. 

Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, DC announced in a press release that it “will always stand against attacks on abortion, including medication abortion, and will never stop providing abortion care for patients who need it.” 

Planned Parenthood of Greater New York said that it “anticipated this cruelty, and [is] prepared.” It then stated, “We will continue to show up for our patients in person, online, and through the Planned Parenthood Direct app. Our doors remain open, our screens remain on, and our fight for your right to compassionate abortion care remains unwavering” (emphasis added). 

Planned Parenthood of Michigan stated that it would continue to provide “safe and legal medication abortion in-person and via telehealth to everyone who is relying on” it. 

And Planned Parenthood of Southern New England said that it would continue to provide “medication abortion, including via telemedicine, through evidence-based options, in compliance with all laws and regulations. PPSNE encourages patients not to delay their care.” 

These statements were all made on May 1 or May 2, before a temporary stay was placed by the Supreme Court.

However, one affiliate announced that it would work around the potential ban. Nicole Clegg, Planned Parenthood of Northern New England’s CEO, announced that PPNNE would switch to “misoprostol-only” abortions if mifepristone were made illegal to dispense via telehealth. While misoprostol is used for stomach ulcers and labor induction, the abortion industry has long used it as an abortifacient both on its own and in the abortion pill regimen with mifepristone when used up through 12 weeks gestation, causing great harm and/or death to the baby and mother. Planned Parenthood’s own website admits that misoprostol-only abortions “work” 85%-95% of the time. 

While STOPP hopes and prays that the Supreme Court upholds the Fifth Circuit’s ruling to end telehealth access to mifepristone, we must remain aware of the workarounds that Planned Parenthood and others in the culture of death will continue to devise so they can profit from the killing of preborn children. This case is only the beginning, and we still have much work to do to stop abortion.

By Emily Finlay

Planned Parenthood knows that sex education and traditional means of marketing aren’t enough to capture the hearts and minds of young Americans. To make abortion seem cool, normal, and even trendy, it needs celebrities who are willing to shill its bloody wares to the masses. And that’s exactly what it’s doing.

This past week, the rock band Florence and the Machine announced that it will partner with Planned Parenthood on its upcoming tour. According to the press release, more than a dozen PP affiliates will table at these concerts to discuss “sexual and reproductive care” with concertgoers. Through this partnership, PP says it will “empower new audiences to have vital conversations about their health and defend their reproductive rights.”

Planned Parenthood is also targeting younger audiences, including minors, through partnerships with rising pop stars. Olivia Rodrigo, for example, received PP’s Catalyst of Change award last year for her abortion activism. The 23-year-old singer uses her platform to raise money for abortion funds and even invited these groups to table at shows during a recent tour. In December 2024, she announced that she had donated more than $2 million to women-focused organizations, including “reproductive rights” groups. She has also distributed the abortifacient Plan B and condoms at her concerts and frequently radicalizes young girls and women with pro-abortion talking points.

Another popular singer, Chappell Roan, has reportedly donated enough money to a local Planned Parenthood facility to be included on its donor wall. In May 2025, more than 250 celebrities, athletes, and activists declared their support for the abortion giant in its “I’m for Planned Parenthood” campaign. Even after PP’s aborted baby body parts trade was exposed in 2015, celebrities continued to declare their support for the business.

While most of us couldn’t care less about celebrity endorsements, the same isn’t true for many in our culture, especially young people. Planned Parenthood crafts the abortion narrative in our news, entertainment, schools, and social media, and pop culture personalities further promote its propaganda to make it more attractive to young, impressionable minds.

Ending Planned Parenthood will decrease its influence, but destroying its ideology is a much bigger fight. We must change hearts and minds about abortion to truly free our world from PP’s evil. And that starts at home with programs, such as the Culture of Life Studies Program, that teach pro-life values. Will your children and teens look to you or to celebrities for information about abortion?

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Planned Parenthood is an enemy of life, and we need to fight back. I hope to hear from you.