The anti-abortion movement has quietly worked to redefine the meaning of "abortifacient", or drugs that induce abortions, for years. In 2014, the US supreme court permitted Hobby Lobby, a Christian-owned chain of craft stores, to avoid covering their employees' morning-after pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs) because their religious beliefs deemed them abortifacients – even though scientists disagree. Morning-after pills and IUDs can prevent pregnancy through a variety of mechanisms, but they ultimately can only keep pregnancies from starting, not disrupt existing ones.
Project 2025, a playbook written for a potential second Trump administration by the influential conservative thinktank the Heritage Foundation, recommends that the federal government drop a requirement that insurers cover Ella, an emergency contraceptive pill, which it deems an "abortifacient". Meanwhile, the prominent anti-abortion group Students for Life lists birth control pills, IUDs and several other forms of hormonal birth control as "abortifacients" on its website….
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