{"id":331378,"date":"2025-05-31T13:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T18:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=331378"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:36:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:36:07","slug":"abortion-pill-complications-buried-decades-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-complications-buried-decades-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion pill complications buried for decades in abortion industry plot to hide the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion pill complications have been hidden by Big Abortion for nearly twenty years in a scheme that advises women who experience complications to present to emergency departments and lie about having taken the drugs. Live Action News has previously exposed the scheme, however, it has been revealed that the attempt to hide abortion pill-related adverse events from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not new<\/em>, and has been going on for nearly two decades<\/em>.<\/p>\n

KEY TAKEAWAYS:<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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  • The FDA has long required prescribers to report abortion pill complications or maternal deaths of which they are aware.<\/li>\n
  • The abortion industry often instructs women experiencing abortion pill complications to present to the emergency room and lie about their abortion as a way to bypass reporting requirements.<\/li>\n
  • Newly-discovered information from a former Planned Parenthood employee reveals that the abortion industry has been instructing women to lie about abortion pill complications for decades, leading to highly skewed adverse events data for the abortion pill.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    WHAT’S HAPPENING:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

    Abortion pill prescribers are required to report complications or deaths of which they are aware<\/em>; however, if they are unaware, then there will be no<\/em> report. One way to keep complications under wraps is to advise women to bypass the prescriber and present directly to the ER and lie<\/em>, claiming a natural miscarriage. Live Action News documented<\/a> how bad actors<\/a> in the industry instruct<\/a> women to go to the ER for complications and suggest<\/a>\u00a0that ER staff should\u00a0falsify medical documents<\/em> to cover up abortion pill complications. This is a coordinated attempt to bury the truth.<\/p>\n

    Now, information uncovered by Live Action News reveals that this strategy has existed for two decades<\/em>. This points to the possibility that adverse events data may be highly skewed.<\/p>\n

    In 2008, Planned Parenthood in Iowa fired its Storm Lake manager, Sue Thayer, after 18 years. A Des Moines Register report<\/a> states Thayer \u201csays she was fired for objecting to a controversial teleconferencing system that allows Planned Parenthood doctors in Des Moines to dispense abortion pills to patients in rural clinics…” Thayer also revealed how the abortion industry had been coaching women to lie when experiencing abortion pill complications and presenting to an emergency room.<\/p>\n

    Before her death in 2021, Thayer became a pro-life activist, exposing<\/a> \u2014 among other<\/a> unethical<\/a> activities<\/a> by the abortion giant \u2014 what was dubbed a “webcam abortion<\/a>” scheme, one of the first attempts used by the abortion lobby to remove in-person care for women taking the abortion pill. At this time, prescribers of the abortion pill (mifepristone) were required by the FDA to dispense the drug by a physician in person at a hospital or healthcare facility. But, as Live Action News continues to document, Big Abortion is often unwilling to follow FDA protocols.<\/p>\n

    In 2010, the pro-life group Operation Rescue described<\/a> webcam<\/a> or telemed abortions:<\/p>\n

    Patients are put in a room where an off-site abortionist appears on a computer monitor and explains the medical abortion procedure to them over an Internet hook-up. After the brief teleconference, the dangerous abortion drug RU486, also known as Mifepristone and Mifeprex, and its counterpart, Misoprostol, are prescribed. The drugs are then administered to the patient by a nurse or \u201cclinician\u201d who may or may not be licensed. The patient presses a button an on computer screen that opens a box containing the abortion drugs. The patient is never physically examined by the medical doctor prescribing the drugs \u2013 or any other, for that matter \u2013 and never sees the abortionist again.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    “Things go wrong with webcam abortions all the time,” Thayer stated. She acknowledged that quite often, after a woman took the abortion pill, “there was nobody in the office” when she started bleeding. The woman would be given a card with a phone number and, according to Thayer, the Planned Parenthood nurse would tell her, “Well, if you’re bleeding this much, you need to go to the emergency room.”<\/p>\n

    But Planned Parenthood knew just how to manipulate women into hiding abortion pill complications.<\/p>\n

    Thayer explained, “Staff were instructed to tell patients that if you go to the emergency room and you tell them that you’ve taken these pills, your care may not be as well, as good because the providers there could judge you for having an abortion. And, really, they said at that point it’s no different than having a miscarriage so there’s no point in telling them that you’ve taken the pills to start the procedure.”<\/p>\n

    But there is<\/em> a reason to tell the truth \u2014 so abortion pill complications can be reported to the FDA. Yet, Planned Parenthood, even 20 years ago, was allegedly instructing women to lie, which would guarantee that abortion pill complications would never<\/em> be fully understood.<\/p>\n

    This is how Big Abortion can claim these drugs are “safe.”<\/em><\/p>\n