{"id":287644,"date":"2023-03-21T18:39:22","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T23:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=287644"},"modified":"2023-03-21T00:26:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T05:26:04","slug":"planned-parenthood-president-abortion-life-saving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-president-abortion-life-saving\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood president claims abortion is ‘life-saving’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood, recently had an interview with STAT News<\/a>, where she talked about her ongoing battle to protect abortion after Roe v. Wade<\/em>. And in the interview, she made a number of incredible assertions, including that abortion is “life-saving.”<\/p>\n

Is the abortion pill safe?<\/h3>\n

McGill Johnson began by addressing the lawsuit in Texas<\/a>, in which the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is being sued by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) on behalf of four medical organizations. These plaintiffs claim the FDA approved the abortion drugs without studying their safety first, ignored the potential side effects, and disregarded evidence of their danger.<\/p>\n

“[W]e\u2019re clearly very concerned, as the entire medical community should be,” she said. “It\u2019s a very dangerous precedent. For them to have forum-shopped to a federal court where they were guaranteed to get a judge who has demonstrated a hostile viewpoint on reproductive rights \u2014 we have concerns about how our judiciary is being used.”<\/p>\n

She then asked “why we have restrictions on a medication that is proven to be incredibly safe and effective,” insinuating that abortion pills should be available with no limits whatsoever. This is a dangerous argument to make, considering the very real dangers of the abortion pill regimen… dangers both hidden and ignored by the abortion industry.<\/p>\n

The abortion industry already ignores<\/a> FDA regulations regarding the abortion pill, putting women at further risk. Abortion facilities are promoting the abortion pill regimen for use well into the second trimester, far beyond the 10-week mark approved by the FDA. Then, when women inevitably suffer complications, they’re left to survive on their own<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Women are also advised<\/a> to hide any potential complications they suffer, allowing abortion pills to continue to be marketed as safe. They have also encouraged doctors to falsify their medical reports to hide instances of complications from the abortion pill.<\/p>\n

\u201cWomen and girls are being endangered and injured every day in our country through these dangerous chemical abortion drugs,\u201d AAPLOG board member and CEO-elect Dr. Christina Francis told Newsmax<\/a>. \u201cI am a board-certified OB\/GYN and I practice in an in-patient setting and I, personally, along with many of my colleagues, have seen women and girls come in through our emergency rooms with severe complications from these drugs. Complications that should be being addressed by the FDA. Complications like heavy bleeding and hemorrhage and the need for emergency surgery, the need for admission to the hospital for blood transfusions and infections, and even one of our members took care of a woman who likely will not be able to have children in the future because of major complications that required two major surgeries to correct these complications due to these chemical abortion drugs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet McGill Johnson wants these dangerous drugs to be completely unrestricted and unregulated?<\/p>\n