Corporate Media Never Cared About Abortion Pill Deaths
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Democrats and corporate media spent much of the 2024 election cycle trying to pin deaths directly linked to the abortion pill on pro-life policies. Their lies and deceptions primarily centered on the story of Amber Thurman, a Georgia woman who died alongside her twin babies after suffering complications stemming from the abortion pill.
Thurman’s death is no doubt the direct result of a two-drug regimen (mifepristone and misoprostol) responsible for more than half of the nation’s abortions. Yet, outlets such as ProPublica skipped past mifepristone’s known correlation with serious adverse events to insist that women who took the pills, such as Thurman and Candi Miller, lost their lives due to pro-life laws.
Years after Thurman’s death, the harmful and sometimes fatal effects of mifepristone on women and their babies are no doubt still news. Yet, when the “largest known study of the abortion pill” debuted this week, showing the rate of serious or life-threatening complications after the abortion pill is 22 times higher than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the mifepristone manufacturer Danco Laboratories suggest, the same outlets that spent months smearing pro-life protections to advance Democrats’ radical abortion agenda were silent.
Corporate media’s blackout on a landmark study should not come as a shock.
If the press truly cared about women like Thurman suffering and potentially dying, they would amplify news that tens of thousands of women who took the abortion pill over a seven-year period ended up with emergency room visits, sepsis, infections, follow-up surgeries, hemorrhage, or other complications. Instead, the little media attention the wide-ranging analysis of mifepristone-related insurance claims has received was written off as “junk science,” using quotes from abortion activists.
The same outlets snubbing the new mifepristone study are the ones that routinely lament abortion limits, despite the fact that those better reflect Americans’ true feelings about abortion than Democrats’ abortion through birth agenda.
As Democrats’ biggest abortion ally, the press ignore mounting science about the dangers of mifepristone to pitch the abortion pill as a safe, effective, and easy way to end the life of an unborn child largely undetected. Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson decision, the media even ran puff pieces about the abortion activists smuggling abortion pills to women in red states.
On the flip side, any mention of the legal battles concerning life-saving abortion pill reversal or the movement to hold accountable abortionists who prescribe mifepristone to women in red states like Texas without ever examining them is laden with hostility from the media.
The data about mifepristone’s devastating effects on women and babies is clearer now than ever before and may even prompt action from the FDA. But don’t expect the corporate media to cover it well, if at all.
The press, which prided itself on amplifying Thurman’s story and the Harris-Walz campaign’s use of it, only pretends to care about victims of the abortion pill if they can figure out a way to twist them to meet their political aims.
Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in JP, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.