{"id":286131,"date":"2023-03-01T18:38:50","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T00:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=286131"},"modified":"2023-03-19T23:51:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-20T04:51:47","slug":"bad-actors-abortion-pill-fda-ectopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/bad-actors-abortion-pill-fda-ectopic\/","title":{"rendered":"BAD ACTORS: Abortion pill clients left to deal with ectopic pregnancies on their own"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Editor’s Note: This article is the second in a series.\u00a0Read the first here…\u00a0Bad Actors #1<\/a>. Find others in the series here:\u00a0Bad Actors #3<\/a>, <\/i>Bad Actors #4<\/a>, <\/i>Bad Actors #5<\/a>, <\/i>Bad Actors #6<\/a>, Bad Actors #7<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the abortion industry began utilizing what it referred to as a “no-test<\/a>” protocol when prescribing the abortion pill to women. As the name implies, this protocol – planned well before the pandemic<\/a> – does not require women to have any ultrasound, diagnostic tests, blood tests, or exams before a prescriber dispenses the abortion pill. This means the gestational age of the preborn child is based on the woman’s “best guess,” and potentially deadly complications \u2014 like ectopic pregnancy \u2014 are not ruled out before a woman receives the drug regimen.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) abortion pill regulations, known as REMS (Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies), require<\/a> that prescribers of the abortion pill are to have the “[a]bility to assess the duration of pregnancy accurately” and the “[a]bility to diagnose ectopic pregnancies.”\u00a0Yet, when prescribers knowingly place women at risk by choosing not to assess either the duration of pregnancy or an ectopic pregnancy via the no-test protocol, it appears that nothing is done about it; there are no penalties.<\/p>\n

This is because the FDA granted the abortion pill manufacturers, Danco and GenBioPro, full control over which prescribers are certified or de-certified to dispense the drug.<\/p>\n

The no-test protocol puts women at risk<\/h4>\n

The virtual abortion pill dispensary Hey Jane\u00a0tells<\/a> abortion pill clients, “If you have a medication abortion without having an ultrasound first, there is a small chance that you could have an undetected ectopic pregnancy. Medication abortion will not end an ectopic pregnancy, so if you do not pass tissue and blood after taking the misoprostol (the second medicine), you might have an ectopic pregnancy.”<\/p>\n

The online abortion pill website goes on to explain:<\/p>\n

“Since Hey Jane does not require blood tests or ultrasounds:<\/p>\n