These days, it’s no picnic to sit in front of the Senate as a close ally of Donald Trump’s. Todd Blanche, who took a turn in the hot seat last week to win the job as Pam Bondi’s successor, spent hours sweating it out as leaders on both sides grilled him on his personal work for the president and his record during the two-month head start he had as acting attorney general. And while Blanche tried to repel the attacks on everything from the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files to the controversial (and now deep-sixed) anti-weaponization fund, there was one issue that grabbed a surprising amount of attention: chemical abortion.

While the pro-life movement’s disillusionment with Trump is no secret, it was refreshing to see a parade of senators demand answers on why the president hasn’t lived up to his first-term legacy on an agenda that many consider the most critical of our time. As disappointing as it’s been to see the president abandon the fight on things like defunding Planned Parenthood, Trump’s most perplexing retreat has also been the most deadly — his refusal to protect women from the dangerous drug mifepristone and his shocking indifference to the army of abortionists flooding pro-life states with that abortion drug against federal and state laws.