{"id":286013,"date":"2023-02-24T18:36:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T00:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=286013"},"modified":"2023-02-24T17:30:04","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T23:30:04","slug":"twisted-inspiration-abortion-pills-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/twisted-inspiration-abortion-pills-creator\/","title":{"rendered":"The twisted inspiration of the abortion pill&#8217;s creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The New York Times recently published a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/17\/health\/abortion-pill-inventor.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">puff piece<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> highlighting the life and work of \u201cthe Father of the Abortion Pill,\u201d Dr. \u00c9tienne-\u00c9mile Baulieu. It appears that no hard questions were asked by the article\u2019s author, Pam Belluck, although several were suggested by Baulieu\u2019s remarks and certainly <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">should<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have been posed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A DUBIOUS MENTOR<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, Belluck describes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2017\/9\/28\/the-bitter-pill\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gregory Pincus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, co-inventor of the birth control pill, as one of Baulieu\u2019s mentors. But Pincus is hardly worthy of imitation. He was known for experimenting on the mentally ill; it is questionable whether these women could even give consent. Of these experiments, the Harvard Crimson <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2017\/9\/28\/the-bitter-pill\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">noted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1954, under the guise of learning about the [birth control] pill\u2019s \u201cpossible tranquilizing effect,\u201d Pincus launched a new trial. He recruited 16 [mentally ill] female patients at the Worcester State Hospital, fed them birth control pill prototypes, then sliced into their uteruses in an effort to understand the drug\u2019s effect on ovulation.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In other words, Pincus lied about the purpose of his experiments \u2013 which were actually <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">illegal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in the state of Massachusetts, where they were conducted \u2013 then abused his subjects in a most unethical and brutal manner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A callous disregard for proper medical ethics was to become a hallmark of Pincus\u2019s birth control \u201cresearch.\u201d A later clinical trial of his contraceptive pill was conducted in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2017\/9\/28\/the-bitter-pill\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Puerto Rico<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eugenicists<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> backing the trial were eager to control the population, and where laws and regulations were less stringent.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">About the choice of Puerto Rico as a testing ground, Gabriela Soto Laveaga, a professor of the history of science at Harvard, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2017\/9\/28\/the-bitter-pill\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">commented<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cThe regulations were more lax, but also you had this belief that some people could be experimented on: the \u2018feeble-minded,\u2019 people of color, the poor.\u201d Pincus had already experimented on the so-called \u201cfeeble-minded\u201d; in Puerto Rico he would experiment on poor women of color.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/walgreens-cvs-petition\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-283198\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg\" alt=\"Walgreens CVS banner\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--700x180.jpg 700w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--300x77.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--768x197.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Keep-Abortion-Pill-Out-Of-Walgreens-CVSLAN-Horizontal--500x128.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Writing for History.com, Erin Blakemore <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">noted<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women who took the drug knew that it prevented pregnancy, but had no idea it was experimental or even that they were participating in a clinical trial. They weren\u2019t given safety information about the product, either\u2026 and women experienced serious side effects like blood clots and nausea.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, \u201cWomen who stepped forward to describe side effects of nausea, dizziness, headaches, and blood clots were discounted as \u2018unreliable historians,\u2019\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3520685\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> doctors Pamela Liao and Janet Dollin in their history of the oral contraceptive pill. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indeed, Pincus <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2017\/9\/28\/the-bitter-pill\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the New York Times, \u201cThese side-effects are largely psychogenic. Most of them happen because women expect them.\u201d Blakemore <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/birth-control-pill-history-puerto-rico-enovid\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">concluded<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pincus didn\u2019t feel that side effects like nausea or depression warranted a reformulation of the pill. [His] only concern was proving its efficacy. Meanwhile, three women died during the clinical trials, but autopsies were not performed on their bodies\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>TWISTED INSPIRATION<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/17\/health\/abortion-pill-inventor.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to New York Times writer Belluck, \u201cDr. Baulieu\u2019s path to developing the abortion pill began in 1961 with a speaking invitation from Gregory Pincus\u2026 He suggested that Dr. Baulieu travel to Puerto Rico to observe clinical trials of the contraceptive pill.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although many of Pincus\u2019s contemporaries <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2017\/9\/28\/the-bitter-pill\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">objected<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to his questionable methods, Baulieu was not among them. On the contrary, he found the methods inspiring: \u201cWhen I saw what they were doing in Puerto Rico, it was remarkable for the treatment of women,\u201d he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/17\/health\/abortion-pill-inventor.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Belluck. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The \u201ctreatment of women\u201d in Puerto Rico was indeed \u201cremarkable\u201d \u2013 but not in the way Baulieu suggests. It was remarkable in its lack of consideration for women\u2019s basic human rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Baulieu, however, found it so impressive that he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/17\/health\/abortion-pill-inventor.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">named<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> his current lab \u2013 which is on the site of an 18th-century prison \u2013 after Gregory Pincus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>LIKE IDEOLOGICAL FATHER, LIKE SON<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just as Pincus lied about the purpose of his early clinical trials, Baulieu did likewise, claiming the drug had other purposes. Belluck <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/17\/health\/abortion-pill-inventor.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">wrote<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To avoid controversy in meetings with [drug] company officials, Dr. Baulieu \u2026 emphasized a non-abortion-related property of [his] antiprogesterone compound: Because it would also block receptors for the stress hormone cortisol, it could theoretically treat burns, wounds, glaucoma and other conditions.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But Baulieu never had any intended purpose for his pill other than causing the deaths of preborn humans. He lied to further his own agenda, like his mentor before him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And what of that deadly pill he is responsible for creating, which has caused the deaths of an estimated\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/us-abortion-pill-lives-lost-adverse-obscured\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">5.6 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> preborn human beings in the U.S. alone; which causes <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/study-40-percent-women-pain-abortion-pill\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">40%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the women who take it \u201csevere pain\u201d; which sends <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/telabortion-abortion-pill-study-increased-complications-er\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">6%<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the women who take it to the emergency room or urgent care; and which is associated with the deaths of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/us-abortion-pill-lives-lost-adverse-obscured\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">28<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> women*?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Belluck asks him no questions about this lethal legacy. And Baulieu? He merely offers a flippant <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/17\/health\/abortion-pill-inventor.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">remark<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: \u201cI like women. Why not?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h5>*The FDA has received reports of serious adverse events in patients who took mifepristone. As of June 30, 2022, there were 28 reports of deaths in patients associated with mifepristone since the product was approved in September 2000, including two cases of ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy located outside the womb, such as in the fallopian tubes) resulting in death; and several fatal cases of severe systemic infection (also called sepsis). The adverse events cannot with certainty be causally attributed to mifepristone because of concurrent use of other drugs, other medical or surgical treatments, co-existing medical conditions, and information gaps about patient health status and clinical management of the patient. A summary report of adverse events that reflects data through June 30, 2022, is\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/media\/164331\/download\">here<\/a>. The FDA has reviewed this information and did not identify any new safety signals. The FDA intends to update this summary report as appropriate.<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/give.liveaction.org\/general-donation\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=display&amp;utm_campaign=monthly&amp;utm_content=article\"><i>Did you know that as little as $10 a month is enough to reach more than 3,000 people with the truth about abortion that no one else is telling them? 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