STUDIES ON
MIFEPRISTONE SAFETY CITED BY DEMOCRAT
SENATOR AT RFK CONFIRMATION HEARINGS DON’T
STACK UP - NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE
...Given
the opportunity to raise the issue once more
when her turn to ask questions came around,
Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) dramatically
produced a stack of papers several inches
thick for the cameras, telling RFK, “Here
are the safety studies that tell us
mifepristone is safe and effective.”
This was clearly for her, her fellow
Democrats, and her media allies meant to be
a “mike drop” moment where mifepristone’s
safety or effectiveness was offered as
“settled science” and any challenge to
accepted opinion was swatted away as
ignorant, unscientific, and ill-informed.
This was the standard claim abortion
advocates have repeatedly asserted over the
years whenever challenged to the abortion
pill arose.
The media and the “experts” to whom they
talked have made similar claims whenever
states have considered laws regulating
mifepristone. They did again recently when
pro-life doctors raised safety and efficacy
issues last year’s FDA v. Alliance for
Hippocratic Medicine case before the Supreme
Court.
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PRO-LIFE VICTORIES
BEGIN ON DAY 1 OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION
As
the Trump administration begins its work,
the pro-life movement is already seeing
significant victories that affirm the
sanctity of life and restore resources for
women seeking hope and help. These immediate
wins underscore the importance of leadership
that values life and empowers women to
choose it.
1. ReproductiveRights.gov removed
One of the most notable changes is
the removal of ReproductiveRights.gov, a
website that had been a central resource
guiding women to abortion providers under
the Biden administration. This site played a
pivotal role...
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THE TRUTH ABOUT
CHEMICAL ABORTION DRUGS – THREE MYTHS &
THREE FACTS
Mainstream
media and pro-abortion forces have not been
honest about the dangers of abortion drugs.
Women and girls across the country have
suffered serious, even life-threatening,
complications such as severe bleeding,
infections, or sepsis because the FDA
stopped requiring doctors to provide vital
in-person exams to women using these
high-risk drugs.
The truth is, according to the FDA’s
own label, one in 25 women who take abortion
drugs will end up in the emergency room.
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ABORTION WAS THE
LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH WORLDWIDE IN 2024,
KILLING 73 MILLION PEOPLE
More human beings died in abortions
than any other cause of death in 2024.
A
heartbreaking reminder about the prevalence
of abortion, statistics compiled by
Worldometers indicate that there were over
73 million abortions world-wide in 2024. The
independent site collects data from
governments and other organizations and then
reports the data each day, along with
estimates and projections, based on those
numbers.
Worldometers bases its daily abortion
figures on a May 2024 fact sheet from the
World Health Organization, which estimates a
tragically high number of babies killed in
abortions.
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ASSISTED SUICIDE
LAWS, ONCE LEGAL, INEVITABLY EXPAND
When
a jurisdiction is debating an assisted
suicide bill, many organizations and
individuals present information about the
necessary safeguards that the jurisdiction
must implement to “safely” legalize assisted
suicide.
The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition knows
that it is not possible to “safely” legalize
assisted suicide and once legal the law will
inevitably expand.
Great Britain is currently debating an
assisted suicide bill sponsored by Kim
Leadbeater. Many states have already
introduced assisted suicide bills in 2025
and we anticipate many more legalization
bills this year. We know that some states
that have legalized assisted suicide will
debate bills to expand their law.
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MED STUDENTS CREATE
AI SIMULATION TO PRESSURE WOMEN INTO HAVING
ABORTIONS
Medical students from the University of
Texas Medical Branch in Galveston created an
artificial intelligence (AI) simulator to
practice “counseling” women to abort their
unborn children.
Politico reports that students created the
simulation in response to the state’s laws
that can punish those who “aid and abet”
abortion procedures after a child’s
heartbeat can be detected.
Students developed the simulation “so they
and their colleagues could practice walking
someone through the medical risks and
benefits of all options — including
abortion,” according to Politico.
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CANADA’S SOCIALIZED
HEALTH-CARE CULTURE OF DEATH: 15,000 - PLUS
DIE AWAITING CARE; 15,000 - PLUS EUTHANIZED
What a debacle. More than 15,000 people died
in Canada in one year because they couldn’t
access care in the country’s collapsing
socialized health-care system. From the
Toronto Sun story:
Close to 15,500 people died waiting for
health care in Canada between April 1, 2023
until March 31, 2024, according to data
compiled by SecondStreet.org via Freedom to
Information Act requests across the country.
However, SecondStreet.org says the exact
number of 15,474 is incomplete as Quebec,
Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador don’t
track the problem and Saskatchewan and Nova
Scotia only provided data on patients who
died while waiting for surgeries – not
diagnostic scans.
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Editor’s note:
Abortion providers complain that Pro-Life
Pregnancy Centers are biased. Below is
a look at the other side.
SURVEYS SHOW
“COUNSELING” IN ABORTION CLINICS IS BIASED
... There are many, many accounts of biased
and dishonest “counseling” in abortion
facilities. Some come from post-abortive
women, others from former abortion workers.
Pro-life regulations in some states require
abortion facilities to give accurate medical
information about abortion’s risks and fetal
development. So-called “pro-choice” advocacy
groups fight these laws tooth and nail, and
abortion facilities do everything they can
to undermine them.
There hasn’t been a great deal of research
done on abortion “counseling,” and its
effect on pregnant people’s decisions, but
there have been some surveys done over the
years.
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HOW MANY ABORTIONS IN
MICHIGAN? THE STATE CAN’T SAY UNDER NEW LAW
After more than four decades, Michigan is
ending its annual, detailed reporting on
tens of thousands of abortions each year,
including a patient’s age and marital
status, the age of the fetus, the type of
procedure and any complications.
The Michigan Department of Health and Human
Services will release its 2023 data later
this year, but it will be the last such
report.
The change makes Michigan one of just a
handful of states that no longer collect
such data, according to Guttmacher
Institute, an abortion-rights research group
that uses state-level data to track trends.
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STORY VASTLY
UNDERESTIMATES THE NUMBER OF LATE – IN –
PREGNANCY ABORTIONS
Kate
Zernike writing in “Late Abortions Rarely
Happen, but They Still Dominate Politics”
(October 31), uses data from the Centers for
Disease Control’s (CDC) inadequate and
incomplete reporting system to argue that
late-in-pregnancy abortions are so rare as
to be virtually non-existent.
The CDC passively collects abortion data
volunteered by states. There are two
significant problems with this system.
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ASSISTED SUICIDE HAS
HIDDEN HARMS
Dr.
Kion Hoffman wrote this opinion article for
the Duluth News Tribune which published it
on September 7, 2024.
As a family practice physician with 35 years
of experience, I’ve had many conversations
with patients about their fears as they
approach the ends of their lives. A common
concern is they don’t want to be a burden to
their families.
This is a natural fear, but it is one that
should be met with compassion, not with the
option of physician-assisted suicide.
The legalization of physician-assisted
suicide in Minnesota would be a dangerous
step. It would quickly move from being an
option to an obligation for many vulnerable
individuals. ...
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AAPLOG SAYS MEDICAL
MALPRACTICE, NOT GEORGIA’S PRO-LIFE LAW,
RESULTED IN THE DEATH OF AMBER THURMAN
Days
before her death: Amber is given and takes
the abortion drug mifepristone at 9 weeks
gestation with twins at a clinic in NC. She
drives home to GA, & takes the 2nd drug,
misoprostol, at home a day later. These
drugs were the root cause of the following
events.
August 18th 6:51pm (days later) – presents
to hospital with bleeding, vomiting blood,
passing out. Found to have abdominal
tenderness, critically elevated white blood
cell count, low blood pressure, foul
smelling vaginal discharge & retained tissue
in her uterus on ultrasound.
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THE ABORTION DRUG IS
NOT SAFER THAN TYLENOL
A
fter
I read. “What is a medication abortion? 5
people share their experiences,” I wasn’t
surprised that “abortion providers” (aka
“reproductive health clinics”) congratulated
Danielle Campoamor for her in-kind
contribution to the cause.
Reporting for “TODAY Parents”, she prefaces
her five accounts with the assurance that
studies have shown that chemical
abortions—which now account for a slight
majority of abortions performed in the
US—are “are safer than Tylenol and Viagra,
and 14 times safer than childbirth.”
Dr. Rebecca Miller, a fellow with Physicians
for Reproductive Health, also told
Campoamor, “Serious complications that would
require hospitalization happen in less than
1% of people who have a medication
abortion.”
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Note: the
following is a lengthy article but very
informative
EUTHANASIA POISONS
PEOPLE AND SOCIETIES
In my first-ever anti-euthanasia article,
published in Newsweek in 1993, I described
the suicide of my friend Frances, who killed
herself under the influence of the
euthanasia-promoting Hemlock Society (since
rechristened Compassion and Choices). Toward
the end of the piece, I predicted what would
happen should assisted suicide become legal
and normalized:
The descent to depravity is reached by small
steps. First, suicide is promoted as a
virtue. Vulnerable people like Frances
become early casualties. Then follows mercy
killing of the terminally ill. From there,
it’s a hop, skip and a jump to killing
people who don’t have a good “quality” of
life, perhaps with the prospect of organ
harvesting thrown in as a plum to society.
I believed my conclusion would be
uncontroversial. After all, it was only
logical. Once the act of eliminating
suffering by eliminating the sufferer is
redefined from a crime to a beneficent
medical intervention, there is no limiting
principle. Terminal illness might be the
gateway excuse for legalization, but since
the real issue is the best response to
suffering, ...
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ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN MEDICAL COLLEGES
JOURNAL PUSHES FOR RESIDENCIES IN ASSISTED
SUICIDE
“Nor
shall any man’s entreaty prevail upon me to
administer poison to anyone; neither will I
counsel any man to do so.” So says the
Hippocratic Oath.
Alas, the oath is as dead as the patients
some doctors now assist in suicide. In
California, the Sutter Family Residency
Medical Program even offers residencies to
train doctors in assisted suicide —
euphemistically called medical aid in dying
(MAID).
Chillingly, most of the doctors who
participated in a small study on assisted
suicide and who prescribe poison as part of
their job like it. The study was published
in Academic Medicine, the journal of the
Association of American Medical Colleges,
which pushes the assisted-suicide-training
agenda: ...
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SHOCKING ARTICLE IN
ACADEMIC MEDICINE: HELPING PATIENTS DIE:
IMPLEMENTATION OF A RESIDENCY CURRICULUM IN
MEDICAL AID IN DYING
“First, do no harm” is attributed to
Hippocrates and is one of the principal
precepts of bioethics that all healthcare
providers are (or were) taught in school and
is a fundamental principle throughout the
world.
But today, the Hippocratic Oath, the oldest
and most widely known treatise on medical
ethics that forbade actions such as abortion
and euthanasia that medical students
routinely took upon graduation, has now been
revised or dropped at many medical schools.
So we should not be surprised that we now
have an article in the August issue of
Academic Medicine (lww.com) titled Helping
Patients Die: Implementation of a Residency
Curriculum in Medical Aid in Dying by
Spielvogel, Ryan MD, MS; Schewe, Savannah MD
The authors state...
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Note: the
following is a detailed article on the dangers
of medical abortion
THE CASE AGAINST THE
ABORTION PILL
Here is how I buried the body of my fifth
child: I
took myself to the emergency room because I
was in labor and bleeding. The baby on the
ultrasound screen lay still in the curve of
my belly, its heart silent. Fetal demise
resulting from spontaneous abortion, the
medical term for miscarriage. The room was
quiet as I delivered the baby. At first I
was afraid to hold my child, who fit the
length of my hand, its clavicles and ribs
delicate as strands of hair. Then I saw the
face, and the features were perfect. I
marveled. My baby was soft, its bones not
yet hardened, and still warm from the heat
of my body. In my grief, I was granted a
glimpse into secret places. I am made, and I
make. I was no longer afraid.
The room went black as I lost consciousness,
hemorrhaging. ...
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EMERGENCY ROOM
VISITS APPEAR TO RISE AFTER FDA RELAXED
ABORTION RESTRICTIONS
The
emergency room visitation rate for abortion
complications appears to have increased
since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
removed guardrails on the use of the
abortion pill.
A U.S. federal court on July 13, 2020,
temporarily stopped the FDA from requiring
that mifepristone FDA from requiring that
mifepristone, or the abortion pill, be
dispensed in person. That injunction
remained in place until it was temporarily
reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in
January 2021.
In April 2021, the FDA again stopped
requiring that abortion drugs be dispensed
to women in person, which allowed women to
receive them through telehealth appointments
and by mail. The FDA has not enforced the
in-person dispensing requirement ever since.
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NORMALIZING ASSISTED
SUICIDE WILL LEAD TO A DUTY TO DIE
Euthanasia isn’t really about compassion but
fear of decline and a loathing of
dependency
— and of those experiencing them.
That nasty truth has become abundantly clear
with a new column published in the Times of
London in which former Tory MP Matthew
Parris argues that euthanasia/assisted
suicide should not only be permitted — but
encouraged. In “We Can’t Afford a Taboo on
Assisted Dying,” he writes (my emphasis):
I can’t dispute the objectors’ belief that
once assisted dying becomes normalized we
will become more apt to ask yourselves for
how much longer we can justify the struggle.
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OBGYN CONFIRMS
“ABORTION HARMS WOMEN”
If
President Biden wins reelection, his top
priority on Day One would be codifying
abortion protections in federal law, his
deputy campaign manager Quentin Fulks said
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Host
Kristen Welker asked, “What would on day one
President Biden’s top priority be?” Fulks
responded, “First of all, Roe. The president
has been adamant that we need to restore
Roe. It is unfathomable that women today
wake up in a country with less rights than
their ancestors had years ago.”
“Constitutionally speaking, abortion is not
a right,” responded Joseph Backholm, senior
fellow for Biblical Worldview and Strategic
Engagement at Family Research Council.
“Believing it is a right under the
constitution is the mistake the Supreme
Court fixed in the Dobbs decision. It should
not be a right because no one should have
the right to end someone else’s life, except
in the cases of self-defense, when that
would be a proportionate response.”
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Nancy Valko’s comment:
After writing my April 1,2023 blog, I agree
with Dr. DeCock’s conclusions below.
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