A woman named Rosalie Markezich says her boyfriend secretly ordered abortion pills online using her name and pressured her to take them.
A brand new study says doctors almost never catch women in situations exactly like hers.
There is one question that could have caught what happened to her, and almost nobody asks it.
Her Boyfriend's Mail-Order Abortion Pills Are Now Part of Louisiana v FDA
Rosalie Markezich says she never asked for an abortion.
She says her boyfriend ordered mifepristone through the mail under her name and her personal information, and that she had no idea it was happening.
The pills were mailed to Louisiana from a doctor in California through the United States Postal Service.
Markezich is now asking a federal court for permission to join a lawsuit that could force the FDA to reinstate in-person doctor visits before any woman is prescribed the abortion pill.
"Had the FDA required an in-person visit with a doctor before dispensing the drugs, my boyfriend would never [have] been able to obtain them," Markezich said.
Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill is trying to join that same case, arguing mail-order abortion pills make it impossible to enforce her state's pro-life laws.
The filing also references at least four other coercion cases from 2025, including one in Louisiana where a mother gave the pills to her unwilling minor daughter.
A New Study Says Abortion Coercion Is the Biggest Risk Factor Doctors Ignore
A new study in the Journal of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine says Markezich's situation is common, and abortion doctors are not checking for it.
Researchers David C. Reardon, Dr. Martha W. Shuping, and Dr. Patricia K. Giebink surveyed 1,000 women, including 226 who had already had an abortion.
They found that pressure from a partner or family member predicts abortion harm better than anything else doctors currently measure.
Abortion providers almost never screen for it.
"Women considering abortions should be evaluated for risk factors predictive of negative outcomes," the study said.
"The failure to screen for these risk factors is medical negligence," the study said.
Michael New, a senior associate scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, called it "a methodologically strong study" and said coerced abortions are not uncommon.
"This study adds to a body of research that finds that a substantial percentage of abortions are unwanted or are inconsistent with the values of the woman seeking the abortion," New said.
Two Minnesota Women Are Suing Planned Parenthood for the Same Coercion Failure
Markezich is not the only woman taking her case to court.
Two women filed an 80-page federal class action against Planned Parenthood in Minnesota, saying the abortion industry pressured them into abortions they did not want in 2020 and 2021.
Their lawsuit claims Planned Parenthood never screened them for coercion from partners, family members, or money troubles either.
The complaint says the abortions violated what it calls a mother's "fundamental intrinsic right to keep and maintain her parental relationship with her child" under the 14th Amendment.
Research cited in the case found coerced abortions carry nearly four times the risk of prolonged grief disorder, on top of a 40 percent chance of grief that lasts decades.
The Abortion Industry Does Not Want This Coercion Question Asked
Every one of these women is asking the same question after the fact, why did nobody check if this was what she actually wanted.
Father Tadeusz Pacholczyk, a senior ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, said that check is exactly what the abortion industry keeps skipping.
"A key duty of the physician or healthcare professional, in seeking to do no harm, would be to try to dissuade their patients from acting on any desire to procure a direct abortion," Pacholczyk said.
Kelsey Pritchard of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America says the real reason for that is money.
"The abortion industry prioritizes profit – not women's well-being, informed consent, or health, the overwhelming evidence shows," Pritchard said.
Pritchard pointed to research showing nearly a quarter of women who have had abortions call theirs unwanted or coerced.
"Since Democrats made it as easy as ordering an Amazon package for anyone anywhere to buy and ship dangerous abortion drugs, even to states with pro-life laws, this hidden epidemic has gone from bad to worse," Pritchard said.
"The loudest pro-abortion voices refuse to acknowledge the truth behind their narrative of 'freedom' and 'choice,'" Pritchard said.
A federal court is being asked to decide whether the FDA has to bring back the one safeguard that could have stopped Rosalie Markezich's boyfriend before he ever mailed away for those pills.
Sources:
- "Study: Doctors Don't Screen for Abortion Coercion — and It Hurts Women," EWTN News, reprinted by Pregnancy Help News, September 15, 2026.
- David C. Reardon, Martha W. Shuping, and Patricia K. Giebink, study on abortion coercion screening, Journal of the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, 2026.
- "Women Sue Planned Parenthood for Pressuring Them to Have Abortions," LifeNews, September 15, 2026.
- "Women Allegedly Coerced Into Abortion Intervenes in Major Case Challenging Mail-Order Pill," Daily Caller, September 22, 2025.
