{"id":288242,"date":"2023-03-31T08:42:51","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T13:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=288242"},"modified":"2024-09-20T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T17:10:46","slug":"associated-press-fact-check-no-baby-chemical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/associated-press-fact-check-no-baby-chemical\/","title":{"rendered":"Associated Press ‘fact check’ claims there’s ‘no baby there’ during chemical abortion"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As abortion pills become the preferred method<\/a> of committing abortions, there has been an increased effort to defend them as safe, and to demean the humanity of preborn children, especially early in pregnancy. The latest effort comes from a supposed Associated Press ‘fact-check’, but it’s heavy on pro-abortion propaganda, and light on the facts.<\/p>\n

Most striking is that experts made the claim that early in pregnancy, there is an embryo present, but “no baby.”<\/p>\n

The risks of the abortion pill are real<\/h3>\n

The AP cited two “experts:” Emily Godfrey, an abortionist<\/a>, and Alison Edelman (it is unknown if Edelman\u00a0commits abortions<\/a>). This ostensible conflict of interest was not<\/em> mentioned by the AP, and both women were merely described as doctors. Both claimed that complications from the abortion pill are rare.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are incredibly safe,\u201d Godfrey said. \u201cLess than 1% of people who have sought a medication abortion have had complications.\u201d<\/p>\n

Edelman agreed. \u201cMedication abortion is incredibly safe in terms of all of those things,\u201d she said, citing a 2018 report<\/a>. \u201cThe risk of infection is less than 1%, harm to internal organs is almost nonexistent, and bleeding risk is less than 1% as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet more recent data<\/a> \u2014 including information from none other than MSI Reproductive Choices, an international abortion conglomerate \u2014 have found otherwise. Complications found include “retained products of conception, haemorrhage, and infection,” which the AP claims is extraordinarily rare. The recent data from 2021 showed that approximately 6% of women who underwent a chemical abortion required visits to the ER or urgent care due to complications, including \u201c3.0% of women [who] require[d] a surgical evacuation of retained products of conception\u201d and \u201c2.3% of women having an induced medical abortion [who] [we]re subsequently treated at an NHS hospital for haemorrhage.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similar data was also reported<\/a> by Marie Stopes Australia in 2020, which reported a complication rate of 6.37%, and incomplete abortions at 4.95%. Furthermore, a United States study<\/a> likewise found that 6% of \u201cknown outcomes\u201d from the abortion pill required visits to the emergency room or urgent care for complications \u2014 six times<\/em> the rate of complications claimed by the AP’s experts.<\/p>\n

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

Considering how many women undergo chemical abortions, based on data from the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute<\/a>, this could mean as many as 20,380 women per year need emergency care after taking the abortion pill. Infection is a real risk as well; a Canadian teenager died of septic shock<\/a> earlier this year after taking the abortion pill.<\/p>\n

Yet the AP says complications are practically non-existent.<\/p>\n

The abortion pill is already known to be four times more dangerous<\/a> than first trimester surgical abortion, but the abortion industry regularly tells women to disguise abortion pill complications<\/a>\u00a0as complications of natural miscarriage. So the true number is likely even higher.<\/p>\n