Tessa Longbons    Jul 8, 2021  

https://www.lifenews.com/2021/07/08/the-abortion-pill-is-injuring-thousands-of-women-and-the-fda-doesnt-require-any-reporting/

Chemical abortions (via the abortion pill) are increasing rapidly in the United States. Among the states that have released chemical abortion data for 2019, chemical abortions jumped almost 12 percent from 2018. That trend is unlikely to slow, with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) suspending an important element of its safety regulations on the abortion pill mifepristone to permit its distribution through the mail. Despite the dangers that mifepristone can pose to women, the drug is now widely available with almost no medical oversight.

Complications are significantly underreported.

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South Dakota Gov Kristi Noem Signs Executive Order Banning Webcam Abortions

Steven Ertelt  Sep 7, 2021   

https://www.lifenews.com/2021/09/07/south-dakota-gov-kristi-noem-signs-executive-order-banning-webcam-abortions/

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has taken another pro-life action to protect women and save babies from abortion. Today, she signed an executive order banning telemed abortions in the state.

When COVID first hit the United States, many abortion centers pushed webcam abortions — abortions where a pregnant woman does not get an in-person visit with an actual doctor before getting the dangerous abortion pill. An in-person exam is recommended because the abortion pill is only able to be used at certain times during pregnancy and can be lethal for women with ectopic pregnancies or with various medical conditions. The pill has already killed over two dozen women across the country and injured thousands more.

Today, Governor Kristi Noem signed Executive Order 2021-12, which directs the South Dakota Department of Health to establish rules preventing telemedicine abortions in South Dakota. The executive order also restricts chemical abortions in the state.

These actions will save the lives of some babies and also ensure that women are not killed or injured in botched abortions.

 (To read the full article, please click on the link above.) 

The Abortion Pill is Not Like Tylenol and Parents Should Know if Minors Obtain It

 By Nancy Flanders    September 2, 2020

https://onemoresoul.com/news-commentary/the-abortion-pill-is-not-like-tylenol-and-parents-should-know-if-minors-obtain-it.html

The abortion industry is highly skilled at marketing its “services,” changing tactics to suit various situations. From “safe, legal, and rare” to simply “legal,” pro-abortion businesses and organizations frequently change their terminology. In one recent example, the abortion pill has been compared at least twice to Tylenol, but in very different ways.

Some claim the abortion pill is “safer than Tylenol”

Former Planned Parenthood CEO Cecile Richards wrote an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times in 2018 in which she erroneously claimed, “There is no medical or health reason for [a] ban on medication abortion. Approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000, non-invasive medication abortion is safe by all measures — safer than Tylenol and Viagra, even.”

What Richards neglected to mention is that the abortion pill  carries risks of abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, headache, heavy bleeding, and maternal death — all of which can happen when taking the prescribed dosage on just one occasion. Additionally, the abortion pill can fail and lead to follow-up surgical abortions. Some women have died from infection or undiagnosed ectopic pregnancies after taking the abortion pill.

For these reasons, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has specific safety regulations in place (REMS) which require one of the two drugs in the abortion pill regimen (mifepristone) to be dispensed by a certified prescriber at an approved hospital or clinic. (Some of these requirements have been suspended during COVID-19, a decision which the FDA is actively opposing.)

Tylenol is an over-the-counter medication which is not subject to REMS.

The abortion pill is clearly not safer than Tylenol.

Others claim the abortion pill is really “not the same as taking a Tylenol”

Yet this week in response to Florida House Bill 265, which requires that minors have written consent from their legal guardian for an abortion, pro-choice Generation Action board member Emma Moses said that the abortion pill is actually “not the same as taking a Tylenol” so that she could argue that a minor taking the abortion pill should not be forced to tell her parents, despite any safety risks.

She’s right, but perhaps not in the way she thinks. There are consequences to taking the abortion pill that are dangerous, yet Moses argues that telling parents that their child is taking the abortion pill is what puts girls in a “really dangerous” situation. That argument is misguided.

In reality, withholding that information from a minor’s parents could be dangerous because girls taking it could suffer major complications, including death. If a girl’s parents are unaware that she has taken the abortion pill, they cannot properly communicate with emergency responders. Additionally, a teen could potentially be a victim of sexual abuse by a teacher, an uncle, or a coach. Informing her parents about the abortion could be the one window of opportunity to save her from the abuse.

The abortion pill is not safer than Tylenol, as was claimed by Planned Parenthood’s former president.

Yet, despite the difference in safety, the major difference between Tylenol and the abortion pill is that only one exists solely to end the life of a human being.

Micaiah Bilger Oct 16, 2019 

https://pregnancyhelpnews.com/judge-permanently-blocks-obama-mandate-forcing-doctors-hospitals-to-do-abortions

A federal judge permanently blocked an Obama administration rule Tuesday that could have forced medical facilities and doctors to abort unborn babies.

The rule from President Barack Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) defined “discrimination on the basis of sex” to include abortion in Obamacare. In doing so, it could have forced medical facilities, doctors, nurses and other medical workers to abort unborn babies against their beliefs.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor permanently blocked the pro-abortion rule as a violation of religious freedom, the Washington Times reports. Previously, he temporarily blocked the rule, so it was not being enforced.

A group of states, including Texas, and the Christian health care provider Franciscan Alliance challenged the rule in court.

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Trump’s Supreme Court Judges Both Voted to Uphold Pro-Life Law Saving Babies From Abortion

 Micaiah Bilger    Jun 29, 2020 

 https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/29/trumps-supreme-court-judges-both-voted-to-uphold-pro-life-law-saving-babies-from-abortion/ 

Though pro-lifers mourned another loss at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday in the fight to protect unborn babies and mothers, many found hope in the fact that both of President Donald Trump’s nominees rejected the majority opinion.

Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh dissented in June Medical Services v. Russo. The case involved a Louisiana law that requires abortionists to have hospital admitting privileges so that they can treat patients with potentially life-threatening complications.

On Monday, the four liberal justices and Chief Justice John Roberts decided that the law imposes an “undue burden” on women’s right to abortion. Roberts’ ruling was a huge disappointment for pro-life advocates. Many believed Roberts, a nominee of Republican President George W. Bush, would at least agree to uphold the modest abortion regulation for the sake of women’s health and safety, but he did not.

But pro-life leaders were happy with how Trump’s two choices ruled in the matter. 

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Pro-life groups ask FDA to pull “dangerous” abortion pill, declare it a public health hazard 

 https://pregnancyhelpnews.com/pro-life-groups-ask-fda-to-pull-dangerous-abortion-pill-declare-it-a-public-health-hazard 

Lisa Bourne  July 29, 2020

Leaders from more than 20 pro-life, Christian and conservative organizations wrote to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week urging removal of the abortion pill from the U.S. market.

Citing the FDA’s own data and risk classification system for drugs, the groups called on the federal office to classify the abortion pill as an “imminent hazard to the public health” that poses a “significant threat of danger.”

“We urge you to protect American women and preborn children by removing the abortion pill (mifepristone) from the US market,” the pro-life coalition said. “This lethal drug that the FDA permits for killing innocent preborn children during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy is also highly dangerous for women.”

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By Anne Marie Williams, RN, BSN  August 18, 2020

https://www.liveaction.org/news/iowa-state-professor-warns-pro-life-students/

Students in Iowa State University professor Chloe Clark’s sophomore-level English 250 course were “warned” on their first day of class against publicly holding certain beliefs — including opposition to abortion. According to the class syllabus, obtained by Young America’s Foundation, students expressing any of the beliefs on Ms. Clark’s banned list in word or action would be “grounds for dismissal from the classroom.”

The syllabus read:

GIANT WARNING: any instances of othering that you participate in intentionally (racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, sorophobia, transphobia, classism, mocking of mental health issues, body shaming, etc) in class are grounds for dismissal from the classroom. The same goes for any papers/projects: you cannot choose any topic that takes at its base that one side doesn’t deserve the same basic human rights as you do (ie: no arguments against gay marriage, abortion, Black Lives Matter, etc). I take this seriously.

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