Deliberate Parenthood Begins Promoting Abortion Tablets to Girls Who Aren’t Even Pregnant
Planned Parenthood is putting women’s lives and health at risk once again.
The abortion business has launched a program that sells abortion pills to women who are not even pregnant, allowing them to stockpile the drugs for possible future use in ending the lives of their unborn babies.
The initiative, called “Just In Case Abortion Pills,” comes from Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, Hawai’i, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky.
It makes the two-drug regimen of mifepristone and misoprostol available in advance to residents of Washington state and Hawaii. Women can obtain the dangerous abortion pills in person at one of the affiliate’s 16 health centers or, in some cases, by mail.
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The abortion drug, which has a shelf life of about two years, is intended to be kept on hand and used later if a pregnancy occurs and the woman decides to kill the baby.
The program charges $100 when added to another appointment or $150 for a standalone visit, with financial assistance available for those who qualify.
Rebecca Gibron, president and CEO of the affiliate, defended the rollout.
Dr. Colleen McNicholas, chief of medical affairs for the same affiliate who kills more than a dozen babies in abortions a day, emphasized ongoing support even if the pills sit unused for months and potentially expire – putting mothers at risk and potentially resulting in live births with failed pills.
“Not only are we available to you today to get you that medication to have it on hand, but also at whatever point during the process you need us,” she said.
The practice of giving abortion drugs to women who are not pregnant has drawn sharp criticism from pro-life lawmakers.
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi, chair of the Senate Pro-Life Caucus, previously condemned the stockpiling of abortion pills through advance prescribing.
“It blows me away that you can get this with no doctor oversight, and it is a drug that will literally cause you intentionally to have an abortion and end an abortion and end the life of that child,” she said.
A recent analysis of commercial insurance claims involving 865,727 mifepristone prescriptions from 2017 to 2023. It found 94,605 women — nearly 11% — suffered serious complications within 45 days, including hemorrhage in 3.31% of cases, emergency room visits in 4.73%, and sepsis in 0.10%.
Peer-reviewed research found three quarters of ER visits within 30 days after abortion drug use were coded as severe or critical. Two separate, independent studies also found more than 1 in 10 women experience at least one severe adverse event. Complications can include hemorrhaging, infection, sepsis, and even death.
Other issues encompassed infections, transfusions, hospitalizations and life-threatening events like cardiac problems or anaphylaxis. In nearly 3% of cases, the drug failed, requiring surgical follow-up. Multiple women have died from the abortion pill.
A large national poll found 7 in 10 voters want to roll back Biden’s mail-order abortion drug rule and reinstate safeguards like in-person doctor visits.
