The chemical coat hanger, Mifepristone, has surged in popularity since telemedicine became a thing during COVID. You could almost picture the Abortion Industrial Complex holding the door open in Wuhan to let the virus escape, knowing they had an almost surefire plan to kill babies remotely.
I’m more than half-inclined to think that the Left’s support for telehealth during what increasingly appears to be the strategic deployment of a SARS-CoV-2 bioweapon (doing business as The Pandemic) was ‘cuz abortion. Cue the dream sequence. Soft focus. Dimmed lighting. The makers of Mifepristone are promising bags of gold after they make millions on mail-order abortion drugs. All you have to do is promote it.
But, like the Chinese virus, it got away from them.
Absent controls, just about anyone, nearly anywhere, can get mail-order abortion on their doorstep with little more than a quick start guide, and it is landing girls and women in the hospital. Some have died, and there is a growing national concern for women’s actual health on the right. The left just wants abortion protected, and oddly enough, there’s an overlap in these concerns.
Planned Parenthood (PP), the nation’s largest donor to Democrats (pretending to care about “women’s health”), has lost a lot of business to Mifepristone by mail, even though it dispenses it, which has proven to be a different sort of double-edged sword. Online competition cuts into the org’s Democrat-donation potential, while accidents and mishaps get PP bad reviews on Yelp.
This has not gone unnoticed by interested third parties, who sometimes acknowledge an obligation to protect public health or investigate actual misinformation or medically fraudulent activity.
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a lawsuit against the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, accusing the abortion organization of misleading women about the safety of mifepristone, a drug used in chemical abortions.
The suit, announced Wednesday, seeks millions in damages and aims to hold the national abortion provider accountable for what Bailey calls deceptive practices that endanger women’s health.
“Planned Parenthood has a documented history of subverting state law, including failure to file complication reports,” Bailey said in a statement. The lawsuit, filed in response to what Bailey describes as Planned Parenthood’s pattern of violating Missouri regulations, alleges the pro-abortion organization downplays the risks of mifepristone, claiming it is safer than common medications like Tylenol.
Mifepristone, while FDA approved (the new commissioner has promised to investigate it), creates what amounts to an invasive “procedure,” and “patients” have a right to significantly more transparency about the risks before they consent to use it. [Related: Study: Chemical Abortion Drugs May Make It Harder for Women to Conceive (again) After Use]
Can anyone say consumer protection?
And it isn’t just Planned Parenthood they need to look at.
The Federal Trade Commission recently began investigating doctors and hospitals that offer gender transition drugs and surgery to ensure they are providing adequate details about risks and complications. Mifepristone use needs to be better regulated as well, at least as far as when it can and can’t be used, and by whom, along with communicating the risks, which include death, not just of the unborn child.
There are also larger, political and human rights issues that states like Vermont have overlooked or ignored. The Green Mountain State is one of several that enshrined a natural right to reproductive freedom in its State’s Constitution.
Sec. 2. Article 22. [Personal reproductive liberty] That an individual’s right to personal reproductive autonomy is central to the liberty and dignity to determine one’s own life course and shall not be denied or infringed unless justified by a compelling State interest achieved by the least restrictive means.
Any medical intervention (approved or otherwise) that interferes with this amendment, absent adequate knowledge that would allow for valid consent to be given, violates Sec 2. Article 22. It is the state’s obligation to protect this right, and Vermont is an abortion sanctuary state that permits the use of Mifepristone (COVID-19 vaccines, gender drugs and surgery, and other manner of reproductive interference).
Is the state likely to suggest that its compelling state interest in ending the lives of unborn babies supersedes the otherwise criminal lack of information pre-procedure, which could mean women may no longer be able to conceive at all?
That would be an interesting conversation to listen to, and I’ve been warning them for years. It is true you’d need a Vermont judge to decide, so public safety as it relates to “women’s health care” is out the window until further notice. Missouri, however, may have initiated a trend that other states will follow, and the Federal Trade Commission could adopt.
Mifepristone is not as safe as Tylenol; it is dangerous, and while I can’t see it getting banned or pulled or even kneecapped, warnings aren’t out of the question. How about pictures like the ones many countries require on cigarette packs?
That’d be something.
