Category: The Abortion Pill

From a pro-lifer who infiltrated a conference of abortion providers, on Women on Web, an organization that mails abortion pills to women in countries where abortion is not available.

“Dutch abortionist Rebecca Gomperts, whose infamous “abortion ship” performs abortions in international waters off the coast of countries where it is illegal, presented a new strategy. She is encouraging women in countries where abortion is illegal to self-abort at home using drugs obtained with fraudulent prescriptions or imported illegally by her organization womenonweb.com.. …. Gomperts own research, for instance, showed that more than a quarter of women she helped to self-abort suffered complications that took them to the hospital, and about 15% required follow-up surgery.”

“Undercover Reporter Infiltrates World Abortion Biz Conference” LifeNews OCT 29, 2012

A remarkable one quarter of women suffered complications. how is this good for women?

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Dr. William West, who runs an abortion clinic in Dallas, says that the abortion pill should not be used in foreign countries to provide abortions (as many pro-choicers suggested) because there is a need for an intravaginal ultrasound to be done before and after. Without this, the abortion pill would be dangerous.

”Few of these doctors in every hamlet, village and town who are supposed to make medical abortions so widely available have ultrasound equipment or the expertise to use it. ”They are not going to acquire such expensive equipment to enable them to do a few medical abortions that won’t come close to paying for it.’

Gina Kolata.” Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000

The way to check on an early pregnancy is with intravaginal ultrasound.

Even with intravaginal ultrasound, the abortion pill has killed women. 

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William Ramos, who runs an abortion clinic in Las Vegas:

”There’s a very common misconception in the lay public, and even way too common among physicians, that this is a nice, easy way to get rid of a pregnancy…

We’re telling them straight up front that if any of us needed an abortion, we’d go for the surgical procedure.”

Gina Kolata.” Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000

The abortion pill is not an easy way to end a pregnancy but causes a great deal of pain and bleeding. Read first hand accounts of abortion pill takers.

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In the New York Times Dr. West, the operator of the Dallas abortion clinic, says that the abortions by pill are not as easy as women tend to believe:

”They think that no matter how far along you are in a pregnancy, you just swallow a pill and that’s it.”

The article then says:

Dr. West said that he would offer mifepristone [the abortion pill], but that he was not happy about it because he thought surgery was much better. ”I’ll be forced by market pressures to offer it,” he said.

Gina Kolata.” Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000

Read the stories of women who had abortions by pill here.

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Abortionist Dr. Charles Livengood is glad that the abortion pill is available, but has reservations about it:

”I think it’s good to have mifepristone available. ‘But I do think that an abortion with mifepristone tends to be a prolonged and messy affair as opposed to a quick procedure that I do in the clinic.”

Gina Kolata “Wary doctors spurn new abortion pill; some doctors insist that a surgical abortion remains a better alternative than the new pill.” The New York Times Nov 14, 2000

Read women’s stories of using the abortion pill

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Marissa Ogle, M.D, wrote the following about the abortion pill, RU-486 and the adverse events connected to it:

“… There is a voluntary reporting of severe adverse events to the manufacturer. This leaves it up to the provider to decide which events are significant enough to report to the drug company, who in turn determines if it is reportable to the FDA.…

Considering the potential adverse events can be life-threatening or even fatal, the voluntary status of reporting is medically irresponsible. A 2006 analysis of adverse event reports (AER) released by the FDA described 5 deaths, 42 life-threatening hemorrhages, 46 serious or life-threatening infections and 17 undetected ectopic pregnancies… This same group of 607 cases required 513 surgical procedures for follow-up, 235 being emergent in nature with 93% of those performed to control hemorrhage. The AER’s discussed in this study relate to the use of mifepristone in otherwise healthy young women and document a significant risk of severe, life-threatening, or even lethal adverse effects.”

Marissa Ogle, M.D. Still Healing:(2016)  20

Study: MM Gary “Analysis of severe adverse events related to the use of mifepristone as an abortifacient” Annals of Pharmacotherapy 40. 2 (2006): 191 – 97

Read more about the health risks of the abortion pill here

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Ruth Lesnewski, abortion provider, on the abortion pill:

“There are probably going to be some people who play it exactly by the book and other people who do different, quirky things with it,” she says. “In the end, it will probably be just like everything else in American medicine. Everyone will do exactly what he wants to do.”

SHARON LERNER “Abortion’s New Choice” The Village Voice OCTOBER 3, 2000

Is “exactly what he wants to do” always good for the women?

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Vicki Breitbart, director of the Clinician Training Initiative, a division of Planned Parenthood of New York City that trains hundreds of private and clinic-based abortion providers, on why women should not have to come back to the office to take the abortion pill:

“For the providers, having a woman in the office to take some pills—and sometimes abort there—could be inconvenient. “If a patient has to come back to the clinic, that means that she’ll need to stay in the office for several hours.”

SHARON LERNER “Abortion’s New Choice” The Village Voice OCTOBER 3, 2000

Is the convenience of the doctors the reason Planned Parenthood sends women whom to take the second pill and abort their babies despite health risks?

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On the abortion pill:

“I’m not sure I want to be in a shared insurance group policy with people doing medical procedures because you share that risk.”

Dr. Peter Bours, abortionist

GARDINER HARRIS “Scientists Will Gather to Discuss Safety of Abortion Pill” New York Times May 11, 2006

Because the abortion pill has a high risk of complications, this abortionist is worried about insurance coverage for botched abortions.

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