Trump’s Trusted Pollster: Even Pro-Aborts Say Mifepristone Is Dangerous And Needs FDA Regulation

The Federalist ^ | October 28, 2025 | Mollie Hemingway and Jordan Boyd

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Data collected by President Donald Trump’s trusted pollster suggests a majority of likely voters want the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to protect women from the dangerous drug responsible for more than half of U.S. abortions.

The August 2025 survey obtained exclusively by The Federalist from McLaughlin and Associates, the pollster President Donald Trump once referred to as “one of the most highly respected in the industry,” concluded the sample of voters, even though a majority of them claim to hold pro-abortion views, overwhelmingly believe mifepristone is dangerous and requires further FDA oversight.

More specifically, a majority of the 1,600 likely voters surveyed appeared to welcome restoring the abortion drug guidelines that were designed to protect women from injury and abuse but were ultimately weakened and stripped by recent Democrat administrations.

Voters Consider Abortion Pills Unsafe

A majority — 59 percent — of respondents said they held a “favorable” view of the nation’s largest abortion business Planned Parenthood. Yet, hesitancy about pill-induced abortion and the harms it has on women extended far beyond the 40 percent of self-proclaimed pro-lifers to include the 57 percent of likely voters who consistently claimed to be pro-abortion.

Despite abortion activists and their allies in the corporate media and the Democrat Party’s best efforts to paint the pill regimen as “safer than Tylenol,” only 16 percent of respondents believed the abortion drug to be “very safe.” On the contrary, roughly six in 10 respondents said they believed the mifepristone and misoprostol combination to be “unsafe” or were unsure of its safety.

Increasing uncertainty about chemical abortion across all likely voters was further confirmed when 71 percent of respondents approved of the FDA requiring women to visit the doctor to obtain an abortion drug prescription. Three-in-five voters even went...

[Fido969]

This is convoluted reasoning. There is medical on one side, and polls on the other.

[odawg]

I read about what women go through who use the drug. It was a medical report, not an anti-abortion article. The use of it is gory; it stunned me.