{"id":243793,"date":"2021-04-26T17:44:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T22:44:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=243793"},"modified":"2021-04-26T15:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T20:06:16","slug":"usccb-mail-abortion-pill-dangerous-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/usccb-mail-abortion-pill-dangerous-women\/","title":{"rendered":"USCCB chair: Mail-order abortion pill is ‘dangerous,’ shows lack of care for women"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In an interview with Currents News<\/a>, the chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) called the recent decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to end the enforcement of its “in-person dispensing requirement” for the abortion pill “very, very dangerous.”<\/p>\n

On April 12, the FDA announced<\/a> that it will not enforce its decades-long REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy), which requires that women receive the abortion pill in person, for the remainder of the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, women will be able to receive the abortion pill without first being seen by the prescriber. That initial in-person exam required by REMS is meant to help rule out potential additional risks<\/a> to taking the abortion pill, including ectopic pregnancy and Rh status, which can affect a woman’s future pregnancies. But even without those high-risk pregnancy diagnoses, research has shown that the abortion pill is four times more dangerous for women than first-trimester surgical abortion. A study revealed<\/a> that the complication rate was 5.2% for women who took the abortion pill compared to 1.3% for first-trimester surgical abortion.<\/p>\n

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