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The Population Council, the eugenics organization credited with bringing the abortion pill (RU-486) to the United States, turns 65 this month — but it is nothing to celebrate. In 1952, John D. Rockefeller III founded the Population Council and served as the organization’s first president. According to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Population Council, Inc., was incorporated following Rockefeller’s Conference on Population Problems, “…to stimulate, encourage, promote, conduct and support significant activities in the broad field of population.” Like its founder, the Population Council’s other members were concerned about population issues — and, like other population organizations such as Planned Parenthood,...

In talking about her experience taking the abortion pill, Tami laments that she was not given any options when she visited the abortion facility. “They did not offer to show me an ultrasound image of my baby,” she says. “I was not given any pregnancy resources or told about adoption.” She notes that she was also misled about what the experience would be like. “I was told that I would experience slight cramping and bleeding and pass some blood clots, but no more than a normal menstrual cycle — it was nothing like they had told me.” Tami says she...

In another emotional video in Live Action’s “I Saw My Baby” series, Salome describes coming to the realization that she had killed her child after taking the abortion pill. “After taking the abortion pill, I felt like my inside was being torn and sliced to pieces. I had blood all over my legs and went into the tub to wash them,” she explained. “Right before the fetus came out I started vomiting everything that I had in my system that morning. And then I bled more and I hurt more. And I started praying curled up in the blood in...

Patricia was told “there was nothing to worry about” when she received the abortion pill from her doctor. In the latest video from Live Action’s “I Saw My Baby” series, she describes the horrifying reality of what actually occurred. Patricia says her doctor downplayed the severity of taking the abortion pill, telling her that she “would have some bleeding, and possibly clotting, and that complications resulting from pills were rare. I believed him,” she says. However, she explains that within one hour of taking the abortion pills at home, she knew the doctor was lying. “I was in the worst...

Facing pressure to have an abortion — her second abortion, Courtney went to the abortion facility and was given the abortion pill. She later said it was harder on her than her surgical abortion had been because this time, she felt like the actual killer. Believing that telling the abortion workers that she had changed her mind would make them “mad,” Courtney went through with an abortion she didn’t want. She was told it would be easy. It was anything but easy. “They told me it was just a pill as safe and as easy as taking a Tylenol. They...

In a recent op-ed on Fox News, one woman described her harrowing abortion pill experience, warning against the widespread push for easy chemical abortion access and describing her belief that the FDA has “betrayed” women in unraveling abortion pill safeguards. Author Elizabeth Gillette says she went to Planned Parenthood and was given the abortion pill, even though the doctor never looked at her medical history or told her about potential complications or risk factors (of which there are many). A “no test” protocol in dispensing the abortion pill has become common. “Nothing was said about any side effects,” Gillette writes....

Yesterday, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed a case filed against the Food and Drug Administration for wrongfully expanding access to mifepristone, the first of two drugs utilized for medical abortions. The lawsuit was brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of a group of medical professionals known as the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. When originally approved by the FDA in 2000, mifepristone could only be prescribed by a licensed physician after an in-person appointment and required an in-person follow-up to ensure that the abortion had been completed “safely.” In 2016, the Obama administration expanded the list of who could...

Pregnancy help medical clinics protect women and babies It’s their actions that reveal the ruse. Their language has been powerful in creating a pro-woman narrative, insisting abortion is “essential healthcare.” Abortion advocates are unequivocal in their talking points: the health and safety of women rely on the availability of abortion on demand. And with that language, they make abortion providers the heroes of women's health. Spice it up with “fake clinic” language to mark (and target) pregnancy medical centers (PMCs) as the ones creating a medical ruse and you have a great story. The language is effective (though deceitful) in...

On a recent podcast, Desiree Merced opened up about her experience undergoing a chemical abortion, the trauma she experienced, and how she nearly died in the process. Merced appeared on a podcast with Ivan the Evangelist, and though she had been nervous to share her story, she believed that doing so would serve a greater purpose. “I was so nervous to do this podcast and even after doing it I was so nervous to share it on my social media because it’s so raw, real and open,” she wrote on Facebook. “[T]he amount of people reaching out to me is...

After finding redemption in Christ for a past abortion, Terri Baxter’s heart was aflame with a desire to help other women like her heal. That desire led her to eventually start a national helpline for women. Though she has heard from women in crisis for years, she and her team say that recently, the stories of women suffering from at-home chemical abortions have increased in both number and intensity. Post-abortive journey leads to the creation of a helpline ministry Baxter started her journey as the director of a pregnancy resource center. There, she met post-abortive women and teen mothers and...

Christina was already a mother to one born son when she learned she was pregnant. She visited Planned Parenthood, where she was given the abortion pill and was told it was going to be an “easy” process. The staff said she “wouldn’t see anything” — meaning her baby’s body. But she soon learned these were lies. “They didn’t ever use the word baby,” she explained. “They always just said ‘it’ or ’tissue’ or ‘the process.’ They never said anything about the level of development. They did tell me it would be too small to see anything.” However, she explained, “The...

An article in Vox featured an abortionist who co-founded the Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline, and included advice for women who have undergone abortions to lie to emergency room staff if they’re experiencing complications. Linda Prine is described as a “family physician,” though she is, in fact, a long-time abortionist who also trains medical students in how to commit abortions. She also founded the hotline, in which she and other volunteers coach women on how to undergo chemical abortions at home without medical supervision. And in her interview with Vox, she said women are frequently taking abortion pills past the FDA-recommended...

How do you respond to those who say that taking mifepristone is “safer than taking Tylenol?” Considered in terms of deaths per dose, it simply isn’t so. What you have here is a not-so-clever statistical sleight of hand. Advocates try to get you to compare the number of deaths from a relatively lightly used product with one that is used billions of times by people every year. We are told that about 150 American die from Tylenol use every year, usually by overdose or simply taking too much over an extended period of time. At the same time, the FDA...

For several years, Live Action News has researched and published the facts regarding the abortion pill along with the web of those who fund the manufacturing of the abortion pill as well as its clinical trials and studies. What has been uncovered has been nothing short of shocking: an incestuous funding trail from the investors in U.S. abortion pill manufacturers Danco Laboratories and GenBioPro, whose own dollars have been funneled to various groups behind clinical trials and studies of the abortion pill and its purported safety and effectiveness. Such an arrangement appears to be a possible conflict of interest, which...

The attorney who represented the pro-life doctors who challenged the lack of safety regulations on the dangerous abortion pill condemned today’s Supreme Court decision. The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone, meaning the abortion drug will be widely available to continue killing babies and injuring doctors nationwide. The 9-0 decision says the pro-life doctors who brought the case do not have standing – they were not injured, and so the court does not intervene. That’s even though they sued on behalf of women who were injured by the abortion drug by the thousands –...

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a legal challenge to the expanded use of the abortion pill mifepristone, allowing the current level of restrictions to stand for now. The Court, however, did not rule on the merits of the case, Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine (AHM) v. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), but ruled unanimously that the doctors who filed the lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration did not have legal standing to sue. In doing so, the Court did not rule on whether or not the FDA acted lawfully when it lifted the REMS [Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies]...

Texas radio host Ryan Hamilton is sharing the story of his wife’s miscarriage — and blaming the state’s pro-life laws for the trauma he says she experienced. Yet not long after this story was promoted by the media, readers and social media commenters appeared to find holes in his story. In reality, nothing about the state’s law protecting preborn children from being intentionally killed through abortion stood in the way of his wife’s miscarriage treatment — and surprisingly, the details of his story prove it. It appears that this miscarriage account, while painful and traumatic, demonstrates that the treatment Hamilton’s...

CV NEWS FEED // House Republicans are reportedly no longer considering adding a provision protecting unborn children from chemical abortion in a spending package. The Hill noted Monday that when the Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee “unveiled the legislation Monday afternoon,” the pro-life language was “notably missing.” The proposed provision “aimed to nullify a Biden administration rule allowing [abortion-inducing drug] mifepristone to be sold in retail pharmacies and dispensed by mail,” The Hill indicated: The bill, which funds the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), calls for more than $25 billion in total discretionary funding for...

The Office of the Attorney General (OAG) of Arkansas has sent cease and desist letters to two mail-order abortion pill businesses, threatening lawsuits against them if they continue to market abortion pills to women in Arkansas. The OAG claimed that both New York-based Choices Women’s Medical Center, Inc. and Aid Access out of the Netherlands could be violating “the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (ADTPA) related to abortion pill marketing and sales.” “Abortions are prohibited in Arkansas except under very limited circumstances,” Attorney General Tim Griffin wrote in a press release. “As such, abortion pills may not be legally shipped...

CVS Health Corporation settled with nurse practitioner Robyn Strader after she sued the company after it stopped providing religious accommodations regarding “pregnancy prevention services.” Strader said she had been granted a religious exemption for six years permitting her to not prescribe contraceptives, and filed the lawsuit in January 2023 after having been fired following the policy change in 2021, according to the press release. First Liberty Institute, which represented Strader, announced Monday that CVS had agreed to a settlement of which the terms “were not made public.” “We are thrilled that Robyn was able to reach a resolution with CVS,”...