{"id":269064,"date":"2022-05-30T17:32:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T22:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=269064"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T19:44:31","slug":"women-miscoding-abortion-pill-complications-miscarriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/women-miscoding-abortion-pill-complications-miscarriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Study reveals shocking risks of miscoding abortion pill complications as miscarriage-related"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new peer-reviewed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/23333928221103107\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) published in the journal &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> reveals the dangers posed by mischaracterizing abortion-related complications as miscarriage-related. The study utilized Medicaid records from the 17 states wherein state taxpayer funds are used for abortion, and \u201cconduct[ed] a 17-year longitudinal analysis of 423,000 confirmed abortions and 121,283 confirmed subsequent visits to an emergency room within 30 days of the abortion by women over 13 years of age, with at least one identifiable pregnancy between 1999 and 2015,\u201d according to CLI\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lozierinstitute.org\/dangerous-deception-not-telling-your-doctor-about-abortion-pill-use-increases-health-risks\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">press release<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A previous CLI <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-rate-abortion-pill-er-visits-500\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> had established that 60.9% of abortion-related emergency room visits following chemical abortion are miscoded as miscarriage-related. \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/23333928221103107\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[C]oncern<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that this misinformation \u2026 might result in sub-optimal care and, subsequently, an increased likelihood of hospital admission\u201d provoked the recently-published analysis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its findings are striking.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women whose abortions were miscoded as miscarriages in the ER were more likely to be hospitalized for any reason than women whose abortions were accurately reported. Women whose chemical abortions were miscoded further exhibited a pattern of multiple hospitalizations in the 30 days following their abortions \u2013 an average of 3.2 per patient compared to 1.8 for those not miscoded. In other words, the number of hospital admissions per patient was 78% higher in the miscoded group.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-lawsuit-abortion-pill-30-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Lawsuit against Planned Parenthood: Abortion pill caused toilet delivery of \u2018fully formed\u2019 30-week baby<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the study, &#8220;of the women with miscoded abortion pill complications who were admitted to the hospital, 86% needed surgery for [retained products of conception],\u201d a rate 2.5 times higher than miscoded surgical abortion patients. The <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/23333928221103107\">study<\/a> states: \u201cChemical abortions are significantly more likely than surgical abortions to result in an RPOC admission[,] and chemical abortions miscoded in the ER are more likely than abortions without miscoding to have a subsequent RPOC admission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cA patient&#8217;s concealment of a chemical abortion, and\/or the ER staffs\u2019 failure to identify the failed abortion attempt, are risk factors for multiple hospital admissions and delayed provision of necessary surgical treatment,\u201d the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/full\/10.1177\/23333928221103107\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> concludes. \u201cAbortion providers should advise women that they may be at increased risk of multiple hospitalizations and surgical intervention if they do not inform medical personnel that they are experiencing an abortion complication.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, women are being <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plancpills.org\/guide-how-to-get-abortion-pills#faq\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">encouraged<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by an increasing <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-groups-tell-women-lie-miscarriage\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of abortionists and pro-abortion <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/safe2choose.org\/faq\/medical-abortion-faq\/during-abortion-with-pills\/will-medical-staff-be-able-to-notice-that-i-am-having-an-abortion\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to lie and claim they are experiencing a miscarriage, should they need to visit the emergency room. This is clearly a grave disservice to the women the abortion industry claims to champion, putting them at significantly increased risk of serious health outcomes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note, 5\/31\/22: This post has been updated for clarification of the 86% surgery statistic.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new peer-reviewed study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) published in the journal &#8220;Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology&#8221; reveals the dangers posed by mischaracterizing abortion-related complications as miscarriage-related. The study utilized Medicaid records from the 17 states wherein state taxpayer funds are used for abortion, and \u201cconduct[ed] a 17-year longitudinal analysis of 423,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":788,"featured_media":91079,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15,3473],"tags":[1908,8915,6885,1767,17578],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Study reveals shocking risks of miscoding abortion pill complications as miscarriage-related<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The study was &quot;a 17-year longitudinal analysis of 423,000 confirmed abortions&quot; from Medicaid records of the 17 states that allow taxpayer-funded abortion.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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