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Why is prescribing abortion pills an exception to established medical practice? Welcome to shield laws.

August 8, 2025/in Abortion pills, Legislation, laws, & court cases, Uncategorized /by Petra Wallenmeyer

This article was originally published at Pregnancy Help News and is reprinted with permission. Did you know that a doctor in a state that allows abortion can prescribe abortion pills to a woman in a state that bans abortion, and the doctor may not get in any legal trouble? That seems kind of weird, right? […]

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“Period pills” are abortion pills for people who don’t want abortions

August 4, 2025/in Abortion pills, Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

If you want the physical effects of abortion without the psychological impacts, there’s a pill for that. (For all quotes below, emphasis is added.) The journal Contraception published Interest in period pills in the United States: A nationally representative survey, 2021–2022. The study was conducted primarily by researchers from Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health […]

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Are abortion pills harming the environment?

July 18, 2025/in Abortion pills, Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

Note: In this post I talk a lot about miscarriage and what happens to miscarried remains. If your history or heart aren’t up for that, you may want to skip this one. Background In March 2025 a bill to require abortion pill providers to provide catch kits and medical waste bags to patients failed in […]

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Ethics and Public Policy Center analyzes abortion pill’s adverse events

April 30, 2025/in Abortion pills, Research, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

The Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) posted a study arguing the serious adverse events for women who take abortion pills are 22x higher than what the FDA claims. Some notes: EPPC’s Figure 1 (pictured) lists situations they defined as Serious Adverse Events (SAEs). Note some women experienced multiple events, which is why the overall […]

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Pro-choicers should be worried about abortion pill abuse

March 10, 2025/in Abortion pills, Legislation, laws, & court cases, Uncategorized /by Leslie Corbly

A recent indictment in the state of Louisiana highlights how pro-choice shield laws can protect the powerful at the expense of the vulnerable. Grand jurors in Louisiana indicted Dr. Margaret Carpenter, a New York physician, for criminal abortion after she prescribed abortion pills to the mother of a pregnant minor. The pregnant girl took the […]

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Did the Texas abortion ban nearly kill his wife?

November 18, 2024/in Abortion pills, Legislation, laws, & court cases, Miscarriage & Pregnancy Loss, Uncategorized /by Monica Snyder

[This article is a transcript of “Miscarriage in Texas” courtesy of volunteer Ben Tomlin. If you’re interested in volunteering to transcribe more of our content, please complete our volunteer survey.] (Video also available on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.) Story out of Ms. Magazine: “Texas’ Abortion Ban Nearly Kills Wife. Now He’s Speaking Out.” This is the […]

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Georgia Woman Dies After Delayed Treatment of Abortion Pill Complications (Amber Thurman)

September 17, 2024/in Abortion pills, Legislation, laws, & court cases, Uncategorized /by Kelsey Hazzard

Remember this meme? When media outlets make biased decisions about what stories to cover or not cover, it activates the availability heuristic, a common logical fallacy. That’s why it’s important to rely on data, not anecdotes – especially when it comes to matters of health. The data tell us that maternal health in the United […]

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What Mothers See After Taking Abortion Pills

September 2, 2024/in Abortion pills, Biology, Later Abortion, Uncategorized /by Sarah Terzo

Today’s guest author is Sarah Terzo. You can read more of her articles here. The below blog post is also available as a recording here: Juno Carey is a midwife who works in the abortion industry. In her 2024 book A Necessary Kindness: Stories from the Frontline of Abortion Care, she describes different things she witnessed […]

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There’s a Fortune in Abortion

July 29, 2024/in Abortion pills, Research, Uncategorized /by Sarah Terzo

Most pro-lifers have heard of the late Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a pro-life icon who was once an abortionist and pro-abortion activist. Dr. Bernard Nathanson After performing or overseeing over 60,000 abortions, Nathanson became pro-life. His conversion was inspired by seeing a preborn baby aborted on ultrasound for the first time. Ultrasound was a relatively new […]

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Testing biological tissue for abortion drugs

July 12, 2024/in Abortion pills, Biology, Research, Uncategorized /by Petra Wallenmeyer

Photo Credit Chromatograph on Unsplash Two studies explain proof of concept for testing for the presence of abortion drugs after a pregnancy loss using a highly specific process: ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) coupled with triple quadrupole mass spectrometry (QqQ-MS/MS) (coupled as UHPLC-QqQ-MS/MS). Here, I will walk through what exactly this testing process is and how […]

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