Justin Banta allegedly slipped his pregnant girlfriend abortion drugs behind her back.
Now a new nationwide poll finds half of Americans want that mail delivery system left alone.
The men doing the spiking are only part of why this fight just ended up at the Supreme Court.
Justin Banta Is Facing a Capital Murder Charge for Slipping His Girlfriend the Abortion Pill
Prosecutors say Banta, a Department of Justice IT worker, ordered abortion drugs online and dropped them into his pregnant girlfriend's coffee at a shop in Tarrant County, Texas.
She didn't know until it was too late.
Within two days she was bleeding heavily, and by October 19, 2024, she had lost her six-week-old baby.
Banta now faces a capital murder charge, and investigators say he tried to wipe his phone to hide it.
He's not the only one.
Jeffrey Smith allegedly spiked a pregnant woman's water bottle with the same kind of pills.
A court sent David Benjamin Coot to prison for forcing an abortion drug into his mistress without her knowledge.
Mason Herring is accused of drugging his wife Catherine's drink with misoprostol again and again.
Rosalie Markezich's boyfriend ordered the pills online, then forced her to take them against her will.
She tried to throw them back up.
She lost her baby anyway.
None of these men needed a doctor, an ultrasound, or a waiting period.
They needed a mailbox.
Half of Americans Say Mailing Abortion Pills Should Stay Legal
A new Center Square Voters Voice Poll asked 2,533 registered voters what they think of mailing abortion pills to a woman's door with no in-person visit required.
Fifty-one percent said they support it.
Forty-eight percent flagged the same practice as a safety and accountability problem, since nobody's checking who actually swallows the pill once it's sitting in a mailbox.
Democrats and voters under 30 – the most reliably pro-abortion blocs in the country – were the most supportive of all, with roughly 65 percent of each group backing mail delivery.
Ask the question a different way and the numbers flip hard.
A separate Zogby Analytics poll for Concerned Women for America found 68 percent of likely voters think the FDA should require an in-person doctor's visit before the pill is ever dispensed.
Ask if mail delivery should stay legal and barely half say yes.
Ask if a woman should at least see a doctor first and more than two out of three say she should.
Nearly half the country already senses something is wrong with mailing these drugs to strangers, and the group most eager to keep doing it anyway just started voting.
The Supreme Court Let Mail-Order Mifepristone Keep Flowing While Louisiana Fights Back
Louisiana sued the FDA to force abortion pill distributors back to in-person dispensing.
A federal appeals court sided with Louisiana and blocked the mail-order rule on May 1.
Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro, the two companies that manufacture mifepristone and profit from the abortion industry's mail-order pipeline, ran straight to the Supreme Court.
Justice Samuel Alito issued an emergency stay, and by May 14 the high court had frozen the appeals court's ruling entirely.
That single signature kept the exact mailbox pipeline that Banta and Herring used running at full speed.
It still is, and the underlying case hasn't been decided yet.
Sixteen State Attorneys General Are Trying to Kill the Laws Protecting Abortion Pill Mailers
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill are leading a coalition of sixteen states pushing Congress to strip away "shield laws" that protect out-of-state doctors who mail pills into states with abortion bans.
Murrill points to a Louisiana case where a mother got abortion pills from a New York doctor and handed them to her own teenage daughter.
The daughter ended up in a medical emergency, and both women now face felony charges.
"These drugs are dangerous if not dispensed in person," Murrill has warned, saying they can leave a woman needing emergency care for a missed ectopic pregnancy.
She's right, and the men on this list already proved it the hard way.
A woman who can be fooled by a stranger's prescription can just as easily be poisoned by the man sleeping next to her.
Half the country wants to keep that system running exactly as it is.
Sources:
- Bridget Sielicki, "Poll Finds Half of Americans Support Mail-Order Abortion Drugs," Live Action News, September 7, 2026.
- Greg Norman, "DOJ Worker Faces Capital Murder Charge for Allegedly Slipping Abortion Drug in Girlfriend's Drink," Fox News, June 10, 2025.
- Calvin Freiburger, "Almost 50% of Americans Have Safety Concerns With Abortion Pill: Poll," LifeSiteNews, September 8, 2026.
- Amy Howe, "Court Extends Temporary Order Allowing Access to Abortion Pill by Mail," SCOTUSblog, May 11, 2026.
- Laurie Sobel, Alina Salganicoff, and Rolonda Donelson, "Louisiana v. FDA: Access to Mifepristone Back at the Supreme Court," KFF, May 6, 2026.
- Office of Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, "Attorney General Griffin Calls on Congress to Prevent Abortion Pills From Being Shipped to Arkansas," Arkansas Attorney General, July 29, 2025.
- The Center Square, "Murrill Urges Crackdown on Abortion Pill Shipments to States With Bans," September 2026.
- Leona Salinas, "New Poll Offers Republicans 'Roadmap' on Women's and Gender Issues," The Daily Wire, July 27, 2026.
