{"id":155974,"date":"2016-11-03T13:04:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=155974"},"modified":"2016-11-03T13:04:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T17:04:58","slug":"report-chemical-abortions-on-track-to-exceed-surgical-abortions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/report-chemical-abortions-on-track-to-exceed-surgical-abortions\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Chemical abortions on track to exceed surgical abortions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A new report by Reuters released this week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/people\/abortion-prescription-now-rivals-surgery-us-women\">has found that nearly half<\/a> of the abortions performed at Planned Parenthood are now medication abortions rather than surgical procedures.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, abortion-inducing drugs comprised 35% of PP&#8217;s abortions, with that number rising to 43% as of 2014. The trend will likely continue thanks to the FDA&#8217;s decision this March to <a href=\"\/news\/fda-undermines-state-pro-life-regulations-with-new-chemical-abortion-protocols\/\">relax its protocols for the\u00a0use<\/a> of the abortion drug Mifeprex, despite concerns about the drug&#8217;s medical risks, <a href=\"\/news\/this-abortionist-claims-abortion-pill-doesnt-need-regulations-hes-wrong\/\">including<\/a> blood, psychiatric, immune, respiratory, cardiac, reproductive, and more disorders, as well as a handful of deaths. Former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino explains at <a href=\"http:\/\/abortionprocedures.com\">AbortionProcedures.com<\/a>\u00a0the process of a first trimester medical (abortion pill) abortion:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lRDnVSMr5j0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In a few states with particularly light regulations, such as Michigan and Iowa, medical abortions have already overtaken surgical abortions.\u00a0Tammi Kromenaker, director of Red River Women&#8217;s Clinic in Fargo, North Dakota (the <a href=\"\/news\/pro-life-north-dakota-reports-fewest-abortions-in-35-years\/\">only abortion facility<\/a> in the state), attributes the popularity of chemical abortions to enabling women to abort their babies &#8220;in a manner more like a miscarriage&#8221; (Reuters&#8217; phrasing).<\/p>\n<p>In March, Live Action News <a href=\"\/news\/planned-parenthood-offers-medical-abortion-in-defiance-safety-guidelines\/\">noted<\/a> that by the time the\u00a0FDA relaxed its guidelines, Planned Parenthood had already\u00a0been defying the safety standards for years. Further, the true number of chemical abortions is even higher, as many of the pills abortionists advertise as preventing rather than ending pregnancy <a href=\"\/news\/glamour-lies-to-public-about-plan-b-abortifacient-nature\/\">in fact function as abortifacients<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new report by Reuters released this week has found that nearly half of the abortions performed at Planned Parenthood are now medication abortions rather than surgical procedures. In 2010, abortion-inducing drugs comprised 35% of PP&#8217;s abortions, with that number rising to 43% as of 2014. The trend will likely continue thanks to the FDA&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":62662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4,3473],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Report: Chemical abortions on track to exceed surgical abortions<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Reuters report has found that nearly half of the abortions performed at Planned Parenthood are now medication abortions rather than surgical procedures.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/report-chemical-abortions-on-track-to-exceed-surgical-abortions\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" 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