Democrats Cite Studies Showing Abortion Pills are Safe, But The Studies are From the Abortion Industry

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At Wednesday’s Senate confirmation hearing for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the agency, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (often simply called “RFK”) was grilled about what he would do about mifepristone, the controversial abortion pill approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2000 and subsequently deregulated under Democrat administrations in 2016, 2021, and 2023.

Though RFK has identified himself as “pro-choice,” he told Senators that he believed that every abortion was a tragedy, and that he intended to implement Trump policy in that regard.

Responding to a question from Senator Steve Daines (R-MT) about the abortion pill, RFK said, “President Trump has asked me to study the safety of mifepristone. He has not yet taken a stand on how to regulate it.”

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.”

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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.

The claim is that studies and 25 years of experience have shown that these abortion pills are absolutely safe and reliably effective. They assert that the abortion pill no longer needs any special regulation about how, when and where they may be prescribed, by whom, and what sort of monitoring and follow up required.

The experts and their carefully cultivated data say that virtually any health care worker can prescribe these abortion pills; that women can administer these drugs to themselves in their own homes and monitor their own progress; and that women can handle those rare, minor complications by simply swinging by their local ER and telling them they’re having a miscarriage.

No one really takes the time to address the 36 deaths and the thousands of hemorrhages, infections, missed ectopic pregnancies, etc. among mifepristone patients. Even the FDA, which stopped requiring reporting of non-lethal complications in 2016, has publicly admitted this.

When Sen. Hassan or her media allies trot out these stacks of studies, they never mention that these studies, relied upon by the FDA to justify deregulation of these dangerous pills, almost invariably originate from the abortion industry and abortion pill advocates. No one should be surprised to find that the data in them is selective and spun so as to make mifepristone seem safer and more effective than it is.

This is akin to the government and media trusting studies sponsored by the tobacco industry to give us an accurate, unbiased evaluation of the safety of smoking!

Exceedingly rare is the reporter bold enough to actually read and question these studies. For example, they customarily do not challenge the criteria for what was a major or minor complication (additional surgery, uterine punctures were classed as “minor” in some studies). Nor do they typically ask what happened to the high percentage of patients who never returned for follow up appointments or even make a phone call to report on whether or not their chemical abortion was safe or successful.

None of these politicians, few of these reporters, ever contrast these slanted industry studies with broad based studies from more independent, objective researchers in countries with nationalized medicine and more complete patient data. Those studies find, not surprisingly, significantly higher rates of complications and incomplete abortions, resulting in considerably higher emergency admissions.

For more on these studies and the truth about “Mifepristone Safety and Efficacy,” see the NRLC fact sheet here.

These studies, involving tens of thousands of actual patients rather than the typically self-selected samples from American abortion clinics, are usually not found in the stacks of studies cited by FDA spokespeople or produced for TV cameras by pro-abortion politicians.

Senator Hassan and her allies want you to believe these studies, this data, don’t exist. They want you to believe that President Trump’s concern—and that RFK ought to have the FDA take another look at mifepristone safety–is totally unwarranted.

But these other studies are real. They offer considerable amounts of data, and they represent thousands of women who have suffered needlessly because of the malfeasance of government agencies, pro-choice politicians, a dishonest abortion industry, and a media too biased or lazy to do its job.

LifeNews.com Note: Randall O’Bannon, Ph.D., is the director of education and research for the National Right to Life Committee.



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Las Vegas News Magazine

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