{"id":296860,"date":"2023-08-22T10:44:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T15:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=296860"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T21:24:31","slug":"huffpost-promotes-abortion-pill-biased-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/huffpost-promotes-abortion-pill-biased-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"HuffPost promotes abortion pill with biased reporting that ignores risks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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HuffPost published a glowing article about the abortion pill while sidestepping its dangers and downplaying the potential for hospitalization.<\/span><\/p>\n

Published earlier this month, the article came from former Feminist Majority Foundation employee Alanna Vagianos and detailed one woman\u2019s self-managed abortion in Ohio. It repeatedly used language framing the pill as an act of \u201cresistance\u201d or way of taking back control since the reversal of <\/span>Roe v. Wade<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

It also drew heavily from the pro-abortion group Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) and its director, Dr. Daniel Grossman, who dismisses safety concerns while refocusing on the potential for legal action against women who undergo the pill regimen.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At one point, Vagianos reports on the woman \u2013 known as “Julia” in the article \u2013 saying she would go to a hospital if the hemorrhaging got bad enough. \u201cSelf-managed abortion and a natural miscarriage are medically indistinguishable,\u201d Vagiano adds.<\/span><\/p>\n

But HuffPost was missing some important information, according to Dr. Christina Francis, who leads the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetrician Gynecologists.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s highly imprudent to encourage women to falsely tell emergency department staff that they are miscarrying when presenting for complications of chemical abortion,\u201d Francis said in a statement to Live Action News last week.\u00a0<\/span>\u201cNot only is it always better for healthcare professionals to have accurate information about a patient’s clinical situation, but also, induced abortion does not impact a woman’s body in the same way as miscarriage. For example, the chemical abortion drug mifepristone is known to suppress a woman’s immune system, placing her at greater risk of atypical sepsis that can be fatal if not recognized immediately.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Francis pointed to the a 2022 <\/span>study<\/span><\/a> examining Medicaid data and tracking how abortion was miscoded as a miscarriage. It claims that \u201cthe number of admissions per patient was 78% higher in women whose chemical abortion was concealed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n