When the Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade came down four years ago, the pro-abortion lobby was apoplectic.

You would have thought the Taliban had just been elected to office and Taliban-in-Chief Samuel Alito had penned the manifesto that would enslave women for decades to come. It was both amusing and tragic. So many people, devastated that they could no longer terminate the human life in their wombs, simply spiraled.

Of course, they pulled out all the euphemisms from the bottom of that sordid drawer of misrepresentation: “autonomy,” “reproductive freedom,” “choice” and my favorite, “women’s health.” Query whether pregnancy is a disease that needs to be cured. Cogitate on that, Descartes.

At the time, I thought the decision was a fair compromise.

While my perfect world would involve a ban on all abortions, except those rare exceptions to save a mother’s life, I understood that you can’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Roe was dead.

I counted my blessings, and tolerated the idea that while my home state of Pennsylvania would still allow women to terminate their pregnancies, other states like Louisiana would finally be able to enact bars.

That’s exactly what “return the issue to the states” means. There is no fundamental right to abortion. Roe is obsolete.

But each of the 50 legislatures had the right to appease its abortion advocates by making the procedure widely available, if it so chose.

Louisiana did not so choose. But the Biden administration found a way to bring abortion to the bayou in the most dishonest of ways, thereby frustrating the rights of states to determine their own criminal jurisprudence.

Under our previous president, the FDA made chemical abortions easy to obtain, by allowing manufacturers of the abortion pill to send it through the U.S. mail. No longer would unwilling ladies have to go to a health care professional in person, and get a prescription. Now, with the click of a mouse, poison was available for the price of a stamp.

Louisiana, which had outlawed the procedure, saw the numbers of abortions spike because pregnant women were ordering their pills, ending their pregnancies in their own bathrooms, without ever having to show up in a doctor’s office.

It used to be harder for “Uncle Joe” to get those Hustler subscriptions sent to his man cave.

And so Louisiana did what every aggrieved American does: they sued. And not surprisingly, the conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals held that the state had standing, and ordered that mail order commerce in the toxic pills must stop.

Back to the apoplectic abortion lobbyists.

Outraged that the brown paper had been ripped from their pharmaceuticals, they petitioned the Supreme Court for a stay. In other words, they appealed the 5th Circuit but also wanted to keep the pills available by mail until the high court made a final decision.

And a mere 48 hours after the mail traffic was stopped, it was reactivated pending further review by the court. Interestingly, the judge who reactivated mail order sales was the one who wrote the majority in Dobbs: Jersey Sam Alito, one of this writer’s favorite justices.

It shows the lengths to which the abortion lobby will go to make killing an unborn child easy, available, and not at all rare. When Roe was overturned, abortion was simply returned to the state, not criminalized at a federal level. Women could still access the procedure.

That wasn’t enough for those who refuse to accept limits on abortion. They want it easy. They want it accessible. They want it now. And they want me to pay for it.

In fact, a recent court decision in Pennsylvania forces pro-life residents to subsidize abortions with our taxes through Medicaid.

But Louisiana highlighted the true aim of those who support abortion rights: erase all bans, dissolve all state boundaries and allow women to be as pregnant as they want, or do not want, to be.

And this is even bigger than abortion. This is about state sovereignty. This is about interstate commerce. This is about manipulation of the U.S. mail. And this is about an attempt to completely ignore the highest court in the land.

I’m glad Louisiana is leading the charge for those of us, and we are legion, who refuse to allow abortion to become just another product served up by Amazon.

Ending human life should be given a lot more respect than choosing an age-defying neck cream or picking up some weight loss drug. And I suspect Sam Alito will once again make that eminently clear.

Copyright 2026 Christine Flowers