{"id":285455,"date":"2023-02-18T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2023-02-18T19:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=285455"},"modified":"2023-02-18T11:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-18T17:13:08","slug":"attorneys-general-21-states-abortion-pill-mortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/attorneys-general-21-states-abortion-pill-mortality\/","title":{"rendered":"AGs from 21 states and DC claim restricting abortion pill will cause ‘spike in mortality’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pro-abortion attorneys general from 21 states and the District of Columbia are arguing that restricting the use of the abortion pill would lead to an “unprecedented spike” in maternal mortality.<\/p>\n

On behalf of the group of pro-abortion attorneys general, New York Attorney General Letitia James wrote in a February 10 filing<\/a> in the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA<\/em>, “Accordingly, impeding access to medication abortion, the method currently accounting for the majority of all abortions, would undoubtedly lead to an unprecedented spike in mortality, worsening a crisis already disproportionately faced by Black women.”<\/p>\n

The abortion pill is the real danger<\/strong><\/p>\n

The filing from the attorneys general comes as a federal judge considers<\/a> overturning the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill regimen in Alliance\u00a0for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA<\/em>. Mifepristone, the first drug taken in the abortion pill regimen, has potentially severe adverse side effects, and the FDA reports 28 maternal deaths associated with its use since it was approved in 2000.*<\/p>\n

A 2015 study<\/a> found that the complication rate for women who took the abortion pill was 5.2% compared to 1.3% for women who underwent a first-trimester surgical abortion. The rate of severe complications for the abortion pill was .31% compared to .16% for first-trimester surgical abortion \u2014 nearly double.<\/p>\n

According to a report from the Charlotte Lozier Institute<\/a>, “Chemical abortion is not as safe as the abortion industry claims, with meta-analyses and international records linkage studies demonstrating failures requiring surgery in 3.4 to 9.9 percent of women who attempt chemical abortion in the first trimester… rising to 39% if inadvertently used in the second trimester…. When failures occur, women often present emergently to hospitals for urgent treatment of retained pregnancy tissue, hemorrhage and infection.”<\/p>\n

\"Walgreens<\/a><\/p>\n

The abortion pill has been found to be four times more dangerous<\/a> than a first-trimester surgical abortion. But because dispensing the abortion pill is more cost-effective for abortion providers, it has rapidly become the abortion method of choice \u2014 accounting for more than half<\/a> of all abortions in the U.S. That percentage is expected to rise as the abortion industry shifts to dispensing the abortion pill through the mail, and due to the FDA’s decision to allow retail pharmacies to prescribe and dispense the drugs. As more women take the abortion pill at home without a prior medical examination, the chances of complications and injuries for women, including infection and death, will likely also rise.<\/p>\n

It’s important to remember that the purpose of the abortion pill is to kill<\/em>.\u00a0As of\u00a0June 2021<\/a>, the abortion pill has tragically ended the lives of nearly five million preborn babies since its\u00a0approval<\/a>\u00a0in 2000.<\/p>\n

The push for dangerous misoprostol-only abortions<\/strong><\/p>\n

The abortion pill works in two main steps. The first drug, mifepristone, blocks the natural pregnancy hormone progesterone, thereby depriving the developing child of nutrients with the intention to kill her. The second drug, misoprostol, then causes the contractions meant to expel the baby’s body. Women have spoken about the horror of seeing the babies<\/a> they had just killed. The combination of the two drugs was approved as the abortion pill more than two decades ago, though it is an off-label use<\/a> of misoprostol.<\/p>\n