{"id":202102,"date":"2019-05-16T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T20:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=202102"},"modified":"2021-04-18T20:57:03","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:57:03","slug":"abortion-groups-tell-women-lie-miscarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-groups-tell-women-lie-miscarriage\/","title":{"rendered":"AWFUL: Abortion groups tell women to lie about abortion pill, claim miscarriage"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Just as abortion supporters rage over new pro-life laws in Georgia<\/a> and Alabama<\/a>, claiming that women could be investigated for miscarriages, comes proof that abortion supporters are actually advising women who experience complications from illegal use of the abortion pill to lie to health care providers and say they had miscarriages.<\/p>\n

Currently, abortion insiders, many with ties to abortion pill manufacturer Danco, are pushing for expansion of the abortion pill, despite thousands of adverse effects and two dozen deaths. The abortion pill regimen consists of two drugs: Mifepristone \u00a0(or Mifeprex) and Misoprostol. The FDA has warned women against purchasing these dangerous pills online.<\/p>\n

Dr. Daniel Grossman, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco<\/a>, who also teaches abortion allegedly\u00a0told<\/a> a reporter at The Atlantic\u00a0that if women using these [self-managed<\/a>\u00a0abortion] regimens experience heavy bleeding or some other complication, they are generally advised to go to a hospital and say they had a miscarriage.<\/p>\n

Grossman is behind clinical trials to expand the abortion pill for pharmacy dispension<\/a> and is calling to remove important safety requirements put in place by the FDA, called REMS. This comes as no surprise<\/a>, as\u00a0one of the major original investors of abortion pill manufacturer Danco — The Packard Foundation — has\u00a0funded<\/a>\u00a0other Grossman-authored\u00a0studies<\/a>.\u00a0In other words, those behind the studies attempting to do away with FDA safety requirements for the abortion pill stand to gain a significant amount of money if those requirements are removed.<\/p>\n

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Packard Foundation invested in abortion pill manufacturer DANCO (Image: David and Lucile Packard Foundation )<\/p><\/div>\n

The international abortion organization, Women on Web,\u00a0advises<\/a> women on its website to present to the ER and claim they are having a miscarriage if they experience complications from the abortion pill in a country where taking the drug is illegal:<\/p>\n

If you think you might have a complication you should go to a doctor immediately. If you live in a place where abortion is a crime and you don\u2019t have a doctor you trust, you can still access medical care. You do not have to tell the medical staff that you tried to induce an abortion; you can tell them that you had a spontaneous miscarriage. Doctors have the obligation to help in all cases and know how to handle a miscarriage.<\/em><\/p>\n

The symptoms of a miscarriage and an abortion with pills are exactly the same and the doctor will not be able to see or test for any evidence of an abortion, as long as the pills have completely dissolved.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Women on Web advises women lie about illegal abortion pill emergencies say miscarriage (accessed 5\/14\/2019)<\/p><\/div>\n

According to a report<\/a> from The Atlantic,\u00a0Women on Web\u2019s founder, Rebecca Gomperts, launched the site Aid Access to sell the abortion pill online, against FDA requirements. The FDA recently issued Aid Access a warning letter<\/a> to cease its illegal activity. Last week, over 100 lawmakers sent a letter<\/a> to the FDA, asking it to continue to monitor and crack down on dangerous websites like Aid Access.<\/p>\n

But that has not stopped other proponents of self-managed abortion, who seem set on placing women in harm’s way. The website<\/a>\u00a0Plan C, founded<\/a> in 2015 by Francine Coeytaux and Elisa Wells, tells women, “Those who choose to self-manage their abortion have no obligation to report that they have used misoprostol and there is\u00a0no way it can be detected in the body<\/a>, even if a blood test is taken. Scientists have found that there is no noticeable difference between a naturally occurring miscarriage and the bleeding that happens after taking misoprostol.”<\/p>\n

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Plan C Website FAQ where get<\/p><\/div>\n

Then, if something goes wrong (and it most likely will), the Plan C website, which is\u00a0under<\/a> the fiscal sponsorship of the\u00a0National Women\u2019s Health Network,<\/a>\u00a0advises<\/a> women to present to the emergency room or other health care offices and simply claim they are experiencing a miscarriage.<\/p>\n

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PlanC website tells women aborting to present with Miscarriage, accessed 5\/14\/2019<\/p><\/div>\n

Live Action News previously<\/a> reported how abortion organization, Reproaction,\u00a0purchased<\/a>\u00a0over $4,000 in ads to\u00a0promote<\/a>\u00a0a push for\u00a0self-managed abortion<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 something unapproved by the FDA. Reproaction also advises women to seek care by lying about their abortions.<\/p>\n

A webinar published<\/a>\u00a0in 2018 states in part that women “need information to reduce the risk of arrest… what the signs of a complication are and most importantly what to say if one needs to go to the doctor…. [T]he symptoms of an abortion with pills and miscarriage are exactly the same and the treatment for any kind of complication is exactly the same…. It’s important for people to understand there’s no test for these pills in blood or urine<\/strong> so if they present with a miscarriage they can get the healthcare that they need….”<\/p>\n