“I urge you to follow this new data and take all appropriate action to restore critical safeguards on the use of Mifepristone. The health and safety of American women depend on it.” -U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R – Mo.) in his letter to FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary
U.S. Senator Josh Hawley, a Republican out of Missouri, is doubling down on abortion pill peddlers after a crushing new study revealed that nearly 11% of women experience “serious adverse effects” after using Mifepristone.
Hawley’s Restoring Safeguards for Dangerous Abortion Drugs Act, introduced today, would direct the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to create safeguards on the abortion drug Mifepristone, allow women who have suffered complications from prescriptions the right to sue tele-health providers and pharmacies for damages, and ban foreign companies from mailing and importing Mifepristone into the U.S.
Here in Alaska, based on the latest statistics that 56% of the 1,222 women getting an abortion used the pill, that means approximately 75 women (11%) have experienced some kind of serious adverse effect from taking the abortion pill.
Because so many on-line abortion pill peddlers have popped up since the Dobbs decision, there really is no way to know exactly how many women have taken Mifepristone. It is the wild, wild West. Likely, there are many more than 75 Alaskan women who have had to deal with these complications. Many, if not most, doing it alone.
Hopefully, Senator Josh Hawley’s legislation will pass but even if it doesn’t, there may be help for these women who deserve answers as to why Mifepristone wasn’t as safe as “taking a Tylenol.”
Real stories matter. Personal testimonies get policy makers to pay attention.
If you know of anyone who might have had an adverse complication from Mifepristone, please prayerfully encourage them to stand up and be counted. Click HERE and HERE for how to file a complaint with the State of Alaska. Depending on the situation, the complaint can remain anonymous.
Information on what kind of complication occurred, who dispensed the abortion pill and what kind of notification about risks was provided are essential in building better safeguards, creating a more informed public and potentially holding people accountable.
Certainly, as a pro life ministry, our hope is to make any kind of abortion unthinkable and illegal but until that moment arrives, we must be diligent in protecting women from the lies that abortion is in any way about healthcare. They deserve better.