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Pro-Life Groups Raise Alarm Over Delayed FDA Review of Abortion Pill Safety

Pro-life organizations and advocates called for the FDA Commissioner to be fired this week over the failure of FDA health officials to review abortion pill safety.

The abortion pill is a two-step process. The first pill, mifepristone, prohibits a baby’s further development and eventually starves it. The second pill, misoprostol, expels the baby from the mother’s body.

As reported by the Daily Citizen, in May, the Ethics and Public Policy Center released a study revealing nearly 11% of women who take the pill experience serious adverse effects, including sepsis, hemorrhaging, infection, and emergency room visits.

That is 22 times higher than the FDA’s current label, which suggests the rate of adverse effects is only 0.5%.

When Senator Josh Hawley addressed the study with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert Kennedy at a senate hearing later that month, Secretary Kennedy acknowledged the data was “alarming” and pledged HHS would perform a “complete review” of mifepristone.

Since May, the FDA has not completed a review of mifepristone, and instead approved a generic version of the drug at the end of September.

In a post on X, Senator Hawley called the approval “shocking.” He declared:

I have lost confidence in the leadership at the FDA. [The] FDA had promised to do a top-to-bottom safety review of the chemical abortion drug, but instead, they’ve just greenlighted new versions of it for distribution.

Now, Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America claims FDA leadership intentionally slow-walked the promised review of mifepristone and is calling for the FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to be fired.

Senator Hawley recently released his letter to the FDA Commissioner, calling on the agency to stop stonewalling the review and reinstate the mifepristone safety protocols instated during the first Trump Administration.

Live Action’s President Lila Rose called on the FDA to act immediately to protect children and mothers from mifepristone.

To date, the White House and Department of Health and Human Services deny slow-walking the review and maintain it simply takes time.

For now, mifepristone and its generic counterpart remain available to the public under existing FDA authority, and no leadership changes have been announced. But there is growing pressure for the FDA to complete the promised safety review.

Some women, after taking the first abortion pill (mifepristone), come to regret their decision. Thankfully, there is a way to reverse the pill’s effects if prompt action is taken.

To learn more about the abortion pill reversal protocol, visit abortionpillreversal.com or call 1-877-558-0333 to be connected with a medical professional who can guide callers through the process of reversing the pill’s effects.

Additionally, if you’re struggling and need a listening ear, Focus on the Family offers a free, one-time counseling consultation with a licensed or pastoral counselor. To request a counseling consultation, call 1-855-771-HELP (4357) or fill out our Counseling Consultation Request Form.

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The Telephone Used to Save Lives. Now It Takes Them.

When Alexander Graham Bell was granted the first patent for the telephone in 1876, most people saw the invention as a triumph of mankind’s longtime challenge to communicate nearly instantaneously over long distances.

First through telegraph and then telephone, the first devices were primarily used by post offices, railroads, stock exchanges, newspapers and the wealthy – all to relay time-sensitive and urgent information.

The telephone was also used to save lives – mainly to call doctors and hospitals seeking help for sick or distressed patients.

Tragically, telecommunication technology is now being used to help facilitate the deaths of hundreds of thousands of pre-born children every year. From Tuesday’s New York Times:

Last year, one out of four abortions nationwide was provided via telehealth, compared to 5 percent before 2022, according to WeCount, a study led by the Society of Family Planning. And in states where abortion was totally banned, 99 percent of abortions were provided by telehealth.
“The reality is people are getting abortions, people are providing abortions, and the post-Dobbs environment is not stopping them,” said David Cohen, a law professor at Drexel University who co-wrote the book “After Dobbs.”

Despite bans or restrictions on abortion in upwards of 20 states, doctors in abortion-friendly states are mailing deadly drugs to patients, who then self-administer the toxic cocktail.

A new law in Texas now bans this practice. HB7, which went into effect last week, permits Texas citizens to sue abortion pill distributors for at least $100,000 per violation.

Predictably, abortion advocates are criticizing the legislation, calling it an intimidation tactic against doctors and a pseudo spy campaign that incentivizes private citizens to pry into people’s private lives.

Texas joins seven other states either banning the mailing of abortion pills or telehealth abortion: Arizona, Florida, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and West Virginia.

Radical abortion enthusiasts have polished and perfected their talking points. Dr. Ushma Upadhyay, who is a professor and a public health scientist at the University of California, San Francisco, uses soft words to describe the hard truth about what’s at stake.

“All of this legislation will never take away from the fact that women will continue to need abortion care, and continue to get abortion care,” she says.

Merriam-Webster defines “health care” as “efforts made to maintain, restore, or promote someone’s physical, mental, or emotional well-being especially when performed by trained and licensed professionals.”

“Abortion care” is a term that’s been widely adopted – and widely abused. There is no such thing. Abortion isn’t a form of “care.” It doesn’t maintain, restore or promote anything – it destroys and decimates innocent life and inflicts long-term psychological damage on the mother.

The zealots wanting to allow the unfettered killing of preborn children are right that pro-life advocates have declared war on telehealth abortion. That’s because it not only destroys innocent life but also threatens the health and life of the mothers who often blindly ingest the toxic pills thinking they’re the equivalent of taking an aspirin.

Telecommunication isn’t the first invention to be coopted for evil purposes. Going back to fire itself, the broken and sinful have regularly misused and abused all types of discoveries and inventions. Telehealth allows those either unable to leave their homes or those without access to adequate medical care get the help they need. Legislators are wise to wrestle back control of it from those committed to corrupting and leveraging it for evil purposes like abortion.