{"id":258193,"date":"2021-12-01T18:46:34","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T00:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=258193"},"modified":"2021-12-02T14:10:21","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:10:21","slug":"pro-abortion-protesters-abortion-pill-supreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-abortion-protesters-abortion-pill-supreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-abortion protesters swallow alleged abortion pills in front of Supreme Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Following chants of &#8220;Abortion pills forever,&#8221; four pro-abortion women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/protesters-take-abortion-pills-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appeared<\/a> to swallow pills they claimed were the abortion pill regimen\u00a0\u2014 which actually includes a second drug taken up to 48 hours later \u2014 while outside the Supreme Court ahead of oral arguments in the court&#8217;s first big abortion case in years. <em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women&#8217;s Health Organization<\/em> centers on the Gestational Age Act of Mississippi, which restricted abortion to the first 15 weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>The women smiled as they swallowed the pills,\u00a0which cannot be verified to be the actual drug mifepristone. Behind them, two other women held a banner reading, &#8220;We are taking abortion pills forever.&#8221; All six women were dressed in black and those who took the pills removed them from boxes with bold type reading &#8220;Abortion pills.&#8221; This, of course, was not legitimate abortion pill packaging and simply added to the theater of the moment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Epic action from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShoutYrAbortion?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ShoutYrAbortion<\/a> \u2014 people took abortion pills outside the Supreme Court! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kKditao6Xd\">pic.twitter.com\/kKditao6Xd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Erin Matson (@erintothemax) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erintothemax\/status\/1466027031670530052?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>READ:\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/legal-experts-viability-abortion-constitutional\/\">Legal experts say viability rule in abortion law was a political decision, not a science-based one<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Video of the demonstration was posted to Twitter by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/erintothemax?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1466027031670530052%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fprotesters-take-abortion-pills-supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Erin Matson<\/a> of the pro-abortion group ReproAction, who wrote, &#8220;Epic action from @ShoutYrAbortion \u2014 people took abortion pills outside the Supreme Court!&#8221; Shout Your Abortion <a href=\"https:\/\/shoutyourabortion.com\/abortion-pills\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">encourages<\/a> women on its website to order abortion pills ahead of time in case they become pregnant, along with the disclaimer that doing so &#8220;may carry legal risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The abortion pill carries serious potential risks, including hemorrhaging, incomplete abortion, infection, and <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/33939340\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">death<\/a>. While the abortion industry promotes the abortion pill as safe and as simple as taking Tylenol, it has actually been found to be <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-abortion-pill-four-times-dangerous-surgical\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">four times more dangerous<\/a> for women than first-trimester surgical abortion.<\/p>\n<p>If the Supreme Court rules that the Mississippi law can stand, it will open the door for other states to restrict abortion to before the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/?s=viability\">arbitrary age of &#8220;viability.&#8221;<\/a> The 1973 Supreme Court ruling <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> and the 1992 Supreme Court ruling of <em>Planned Parenthood v. Casey\u00a0<\/em>determined and reaffirmed that states had a &#8220;compelling interest&#8221; in protecting human life only after about 24 weeks of pregnancy. However, viability is a subjective term.<\/p>\n<p>Every human being is viable in their natural environment, because they are in the process of living. Forcing death upon a preborn child through abortion is the direct cause of making that child non-viable. States have an interest in protecting human life at all stages of development.<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: This article has been modified since original publication.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following chants of &#8220;Abortion pills forever,&#8221; four pro-abortion women appeared to swallow pills they claimed were the abortion pill regimen\u00a0\u2014 which actually includes a second drug taken up to 48 hours later \u2014 while outside the Supreme Court ahead of oral arguments in the court&#8217;s first big abortion case in years. Dobbs v. 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