Abortion pill foes aim to increase risk to patients under the guise of 'safety'
The anti-abortion movement is not trying to make patients safer. They’re deliberately manufacturing risk.
“Abortion has been with us as long as has pregnancy. The question for society has always been the price women will be forced to pay for their abortions in terms of dollars, disease, degradation, and death… Those who wish to restrict or eliminate access to legal abortion must be willing to accept responsibility for these costs, both financial and human.”1
I used to genuinely believe that mifepristone was killing hundreds, if not thousands, of people, and that “The Abortion Industry” simply didn't care. In contrast, “pro-life” people truly cared about patients’ health, safety, and well-being.
It made sense to me at the time because only the “pro-life” media was reporting that women and girls were dropping like flies. And surely people who claimed to love Jesus wouldn't be telling lies.
I was very naïve.
Faux-life activists love to pay lip service to “protecting” the health and safety of people who are pregnant. Their every push to commandeer people's bodies and curtail individual liberty is dolled up as a saccharine devotion to “protecting women.” But their cloying professions of concern for pregnant people are just second-rate impersonations of those who actually have a heart for the wellbeing of others.
Look beneath faux-lifers’ dime-store knockoff of authentic altruism and concern for patient safety and you'll find a brutally painful truth: They don't give a damn about pregnant people.
ON TUESDAY, another round of performative “pro-woman” gobbledygook, cooked-up by the faux-life, altruist impersonators, will be foisted onto the American public via a Senate hearing shamelessly titled, “Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs.”
The hearing will be led by Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a gastroenterologist. “As a doctor and a strong pro-life conservative, I am committed to protecting mothers and the unborn. The medical evidence is clear: chemical abortion drugs not only kill innocent babies, but also put women in serious danger,” Cassidy said, unabashedly exploiting his status as a doctor for political expediency while blatantly lying about the data on the safety of mifepristone. “As Chairman of the [Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions] Committee, I look forward to discussing how to uphold a culture of life and prioritize women‘s safety over political ideology,” he said, shamelessly prioritizing political ideology over women's safety.
In 2022, Cassidy told politico that his state's abysmal maternal mortality rate wouldn't be as bad if you didn’t count Black women.
At Tuesday's hearing, fear-mongering faux-lifers will be masquerading as truth-seekers concerned for patients’ health and safety, and a parade of fetus fetishists will be cosplaying as impartial experts on drug safety. What we won’t see from Sen. Cassidy and other faux-lifers is the truth.
The truth is that the mifepristone/misoprostol medication abortion regimen is far safer than pregnancy and birth.
The truth is that restrictions on access always put people who want to end their pregnancies at greater risk.
The truth is that faux-lifers’ performative concern for “women's safety” is just another effort to commandeer people's bodies and curtail individual liberty dolled up as a saccharine devotion to “protecting women.”
The faux-life, pro-control movement is not trying to make patients safer. They’re deliberately manufacturing risk. ■
Grimes , D. A., & Brandon , L. G. (2014). The Bad Old Days . In Every Third Woman in America: How Legal Abortion Transformed Our Nation (ebook, p. 5). essay, David A. Grimes, MD & Linda G. Brandon.