{"id":190184,"date":"2018-10-26T14:40:16","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=190184"},"modified":"2018-10-25T17:48:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:48:24","slug":"abortion-pill-canada-13000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-canada-13000\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion pill prescribed over 13,000 times in Canada since 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Life Site News<\/a>) Designed to kill preborn babies, the two-step Mifegymiso abortion pill (RU-486) has reportedly been prescribed at least 13,000 times in Canada since becoming available in January last year.<\/p>\n

Using figures obtained from provincial health authorities, the National Post newspaper reported<\/a>\u00a0Oct. 15 on the number of known Mifegymiso prescriptions. But it’s likely many more prescriptions than this have been written for Mifegymiso in Canada because the territory of Yukon did not divulge the number of these abortion pill prescriptions to the National Post, citing alleged privacy reasons.<\/p>\n

And then there was the failure to respond to the newspaper’s request for information about these prescriptions by the provinces of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

Marie-Claire Bissonnette, a youth coordinator at Campaign Life Coalition, is saddened by the booming popularity of these abortion pills.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s tragic that people are rejoicing at the number of times the new abortion pills have been prescribed,” said Bissonnette in an interview with LifeSiteNews.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s understandable that the people who aren\u2019t in favour of protecting the lives of innocent preborn children would support such a pill – but what isn\u2019t congruent is their support despite the dangers and harm that Mifegymiso may cause the mother,” she said.<\/p>\n

The abortion pill comes with a host of nasty side effects and has resulted in the deaths of numerous women\u00a0(for example,\u00a0here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, and\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“This drug has been proven to be very dangerous to women,” said pro-lifer Patricia Maloney, author of the Run With Life<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n

READ: Abortion pill dangers are unknown because half of U.S. states don’t report complications<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

According to Maloney, even some pro-abort authors have written about the dangers of this abortion pill system, including Renate Klein who helped pen the book RU486: Misconceptions, Myths and Morals.<\/p>\n

“(She) is dead set against this drug because of its long list of side effects, including the possibility of death,” said Maloney. “These side effects are especially troublesome for women in remote parts of our country. If a woman has a serious problem while taking the abortion pill and if she is in need of expert medical care that care may not be readily available to her in these remote or unserviced places, putting these women at great personal risk.”<\/p>\n

The biggest harm to most women, though, may well be the trauma they will suffer once they realize they have taken the lives of their innocent, unborn babies, said Bissonnette.<\/p>\n

“In addition to the side effects, it\u2019s worth thinking about the psychological impact on women who are expected to flush their preborn down toilets,” she said. “And what about the women who may ‘sneak a peek’ at what they excrete, only to find a tiny human, whose fingers and toes may have been developed by this point?”<\/p>\n

Mifegymiso is billed as “the World Health Organization\u2019s gold standard of medical abortion” a two-pill system that contains a drug “used for close to 30 years with an outstanding safety and efficacy record” in 60 countries.<\/p>\n

According to Health Canada, Mifegymiso typically leads to 10.8 days of vaginal bleeding, including two days of heavy bleeding.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe medication causes vaginal bleeding and commonly induced pain and cramping, which required pain medication in some women,” states Health Canada.<\/p>\n

In almost six out of 10 women, Mifegymiso causes diarrhea and roughly a third of women experience nausea. The abortion pill brings on fever and chills in 44 per cent of women who take it, and vomiting and weakness in roughly one out of five women. More than one in 10 women will suffer from headaches and dizziness when taking Mifegymiso, according to Health Canada.<\/p>\n

After all of that, the abortion pill might not even work as advertised.<\/p>\n

It has a “treatment failure” rate of four per cent. That means in one out of every 25 pregnancies for which the mother takes Mifegymiso to abort her child, he or she doesn’t die from the drugs.<\/p>\n

Those women typically resort to surgical abortions.<\/p>\n