{"id":225626,"date":"2020-06-17T16:30:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T21:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=225626"},"modified":"2020-06-18T13:23:47","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T18:23:47","slug":"founder-911-saving-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/founder-911-saving-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of pro-abortion org credits 9\/11 terrorist attack with ‘saving’ the abortion pill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beverly Winikoff, founder of Gynuity Health Projects — the sponsor of controversial abortion pill clinical trials on girls as young as 10<\/a> — has credited the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack on America with ‘saving’ the abortion pill.<\/p>\n

On September 1, 2001, a woman in Canada died from taking the abortion pill, and the news of her death was made public on September 10, the day before 9\/11. Her death was overshadowed by the horrific events of that day, and Winikoff was glad for that. In a May 2020\u00a0interview<\/a> with Columbia University journalists, Winikoff said, in part:<\/p>\n

I remember the first day we heard about a death [from the abortion pill]… It was September 10, 2001… And that’s [the tragic attack of 9\/11] what saved mifepristone.<\/em><\/p>\n

And that was like, existential, like, ‘Oh my God. What is going on?’ And ‘is this going to be a problem?’ … Planned Parenthood was very worried and was thinking of taking [the abortion pill] out of its clinics. And this was after it was registered.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The woman had died from a serious infection caused by the abortion pill:\u00a0Clostridium sordellii<\/em>. Her\u00a0death should have placed the abortion drug and those dispensing it under severe scrutiny. As Winikoff said, Planned Parenthood considered ceasing distribution of the pill. Yet it barely made headlines because of 9\/11, leading Winikoff<\/a> to express relief over the worst terrorist attack in United States history, which killed thousands.<\/p>\n

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Beverly Winikoff, founder of Gynuity Health, conducting abortion pill trials (Image Columbia.edu)<\/p><\/div>\n

Today, under the leadership of Winikoff, a Gynuity-sponsored TelAbortion<\/a> trial mails the dangerous abortion pill to girls as young<\/a> as 10. Outside the U.S., Gynuity has set up experimental abortion pill trials for late-term abortions, recruiting<\/a> women and minors in West Africa<\/a>. Gynuity has also announced its intentions to experiment on women in Latin America<\/a>, and\u00a0is currently sponsoring an experimental study in Mexico<\/a> which will also seek participants as young as 10. Gynuity receives\u00a0funding from<\/a>\u00a0investors who also fund the company that makes the abortion pill. This glaring conflict of interest should taint the results of Gynuity’s studies, and its founder’s obvious lack of concern for human life should concern everyone who cares about women.<\/p>\n

Winikoff’s shocking comments simply serve as further proof that the abortion industry puts\u00a0money over the lives of women — and human life in general. Here are some more examples:<\/p>\n

Louisiana Admitting Privileges<\/h4>\n

The U.S. Supreme Court case<\/a> June Medical Services v. Russo<\/em> (formerly June Medical Services v. Gee<\/em>) deals with a 2014 Louisiana law known as Act 620, or “The Unsafe Abortion Act,” meant to protect women by ensuring that any woman injured<\/a> during an abortion can receive proper continuity of care at a hospital within 30 miles by requiring abortionists to have admitting privileges. All surgeons in the state’s outpatient surgical centers are required to have such admitting privileges, yet the pro-abortion Center for Reproductive Rights, the Hope Medical Group for Women, and two abortionists sued the state over the law — and won. Now it has reached the Supreme Court, and the decision could change the abortion landscape.<\/p>\n

Secular Pro-Life explained<\/a>\u00a0that many abortion businesses use \u201c(literal) fly-by-night abortionists, who come into town for abortions, fly back to their homes out of state, and leave the local ER to deal with any complications that arise.\u201d One\u00a0woman who sought an abortion in Louisiana from Dr. David Lee Golden discussed how she was abandoned by staff and had to take herself to the ER. According to the Amici Curiae brief<\/a> in the current Supreme Court case:<\/p>\n

[Golden] callously abandoned a woman named Audrey D. when she experienced excruciating pain following a surgical abortion. \u201cHe told her he had to go somewhere\u201d but \u201cdid not return,\u201d so he had \u201cthe nurses give[ ] her some Tylenol\u201d and instruct her to \u201cgo home and lie down.\u201d\u2026 Dr. Golden suspected that \u201cthe fetal skull remained in the uterus,\u201d yet he \u201creleased her without performing an additional pelvic examination,\u201d \u2026 or telling her that \u201che suspected the abortion to be incomplete.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hemorrhaging woman kicked to the curb<\/h4>\n

In a prime example of the abortion industry’s complete lack of care for its patients, Preterm abortion facility in Ohio kicked out<\/a>\u00a0a 25-year-old abortion patient\u00a0at closing time even though she was hemorrhaging. In a 911 call obtained by pro-life watchdog group\u00a0Operation Rescue<\/a>, the woman said, “I’m outside Preterm and I’m bleeding heavy. Like they just — they just left me bleeding like this.” This act of abandoment is a violation of patient care standards, as patients must be stable when released. An ambulance arrived and took the woman to Metro Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n

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