{"id":84535,"date":"2016-03-30T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T20:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=84535"},"modified":"2020-08-13T16:48:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T21:48:56","slug":"planned-parenthood-offers-medical-abortion-in-defiance-safety-guidelines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/planned-parenthood-offers-medical-abortion-in-defiance-safety-guidelines\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned Parenthood has offered the abortion pill in defiance of safety guidelines for years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today’s FDA announcement<\/a> that it is relaxing medical abortion protocols demonstrates the monstrous influence of Planned Parenthood and the abortion industry on our current government. For years, Planned Parenthood has claimed its own prominence as a “women’s healthcare provider,” while simultaneously defying guidelines for women’s safety. Instead of getting a warning letter<\/a> from the FDA – or any other legal slap on the wrist – Planned Parenthood’s unsafe abortion methods have now been approved by the government.<\/p>\n

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Let’s review the facts as they were prior to the FDA’s announcement:<\/p>\n

At nearly all of its abortion clinics across the nation, Planned Parenthood performs medical abortions (also known as the abortion pill, RU486, and mifepristone) past the FDA recommended guideline of seven weeks. And, at 104 of its clinics across the nation, Planned Parenthood publicly advertises medical abortions past nine weeks, the medical standard set <\/a>by NARAL and Planned Parenthood itself.<\/p>\n

In fact, Planned Parenthood publicly recommends against its own clinics’ practice.<\/p>\n

In the screenshot below, Planned Parenthood advises women that they should not take the abortion pill after nine weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

\"PP<\/a>Planned Parenthood, in its site’s education section, attempts to claim that the abortion pill is “used up to 63 days – 9 weeks – after the first day of a woman’s last period,” even while knowing that 104 of its own clinics use the abortion pill up to 10 weeks.<\/p>\n

\"PP<\/a>Planned Parenthood’s actions also defy the cited research of The Guttmacher Institute – a pro-abortion research arm originally founded by\u00a0Planned Parenthood. Here<\/a>, Guttmacher advises against following FDA guidelines, but still says the “evidence” points to stopping medication abortions at nine weeks of pregnancy.<\/p>\n

\"Mifepristone,<\/a>While “gestational limit” is mentioned, multiple<\/a> sources<\/a> make it clear that the nine weeks of pregnancy is counting from the last menstrual period, thus using the LMP dating of a pregnancy, not<\/em> the gestational age of the preborn child.<\/p>\n

The abortion pill’s own website<\/a> says:<\/p>\n

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“Mifeprex is FDA-approved for ending early pregnancy. Early pregnancy means it is 49 days (7 weeks) or less since your last menstrual period began.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A number of other abortion clinics<\/a> refuse to perform medication abortions past eight or nine weeks of pregnancy. Not so at Planned Parenthood. Even the pro-abortion American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) seems to recognize<\/a> that the results of using the abortion pill after nine weeks is still being studied, and is certainly not approved by recognized medical standards in the U.S.<\/p>\n

And yet, in 104 of its clinics, Planned Parenthood is more than happy to do just as it wishes, regardless of FDA guidelines or the accepted medical standards of the abortion industry. (Incidentally, a number of women have died as the abortion industry moved to its own standards, ignoring FDA protocol. 18-year-old Holly Patterson<\/a> was one of these women.)<\/p>\n

In the video below, former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino explains exactly what happens in a medical abortion:<\/p>\n