The FDA recently announced that it will loosen safety regulations so abortion drugs can be sold in retail pharmacies — and Walgreens and CVS immediately said they would sign up for the deadly program. It is distressingly clear that these companies care more about their profits than about the lives of helpless babies in the […]
Telemedicine abortion—often by phone—is on the rise During the COVID-19 pandemic, a minority of counties allowed abortion providers to send abortion pills (usually mifepristone and misoprostol) to women by mail after a remote video or phone consultation, with no in-person contact throughout the process, Calum Miller points out in Chapter 16 of Agency, Pregnancy, and […]
[This post is available as a Twitter thread here.] Introduction ACOG (the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) recently released a “Guide to Language and Abortion,” and Quartz covered the guide in their article “13 phrases US doctors want removed from our vocabulary about abortion.” It’s problematic to assume ACOG and “US doctors” are interchangeable […]
A Missouri bill related to medication abortion has been getting a lot of attention: While media hyperbole about abortion restrictions is typical, Missouri’s HB 2810 has confused even some staunch anti-abortion advocates with its mention of ectopic pregnancies. Part of the confusion is most likely due to the presentation of three different changes under two […]
Note: In this article the terms “chemical abortion” and “medication abortion” are interchangeable. This month (November 2021), Health Services Research & Managerial Epidemiology published “A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Emergency Room Utilization Following Mifepristone Chemical and Surgical Abortions, 1999–2015.” The study’s researchers reviewed records of 423,000 abortions, noting whether they were chemical or surgical abortions. […]
Use of chemical abortions is increasing rapidly. So-called ‘medical’ abortions were almost one-third of the total in the US in 2016 – a vast number considering the Food and Drug Administration only approved the use of the ‘abortion pill’ in 2000. In many other countries chemical abortions are over fifty per cent of the total. […]
In 1996, the Clintons used the phrase “safe, legal, and rare” to describe the supposed goal for abortions. Since then, many people have dropped the “rare” from their list of stated expectations, but they have continued to proclaim that they are concerned about the safety of women getting abortions. In fact, a primary purported reason […]
Mother Jones has an article in its April/May issue entitled “She Started Selling Abortion Pills Online. Then the Feds Showed Up.” Quick pause for alternate headlines that more accurately capture the tone of the piece: She Broke The Law. But It Was An Abortion Law, So It Shouldn’t Have Counted. Evil Police Fail to Recognize […]
California legislators are expected to vote this week on SB 320, a bill that would turn all public university campus health centers into abortion vendors. The proposed legislation would require campus health centers to begin offering the abortion pill Mifeprex by 2022. SB 320 doesn’t even pretend to be pro-choice; it is blatantly pro-abortion. It […]
You may have read that last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a law regulating chemical abortion in Arkansas. The law requires chemical abortion vendors to partner with doctors who have hospital admitting privileges. As a result, two Arkansas abortion centers that do only chemical (and not surgical) abortions, and […]
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