The Abortion Pill Safety Crisis No One Wants to Talk About

Substack ^ | 5/21/26 | Deepbackground30

[EnderWiggin1970]

Chemical abortion now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all abortions in the United States, 63%, according to the Guttmacher Institute. That’s a dramatic shift in how abortions are performed, and it’s happening at the same moment that serious questions are emerging about whether women are being adequately protected from the risks involved.

Here’s what the data actually shows.

The FDA Label Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

The FDA’s current label for mifepristone, the first drug in the standard two-drug chemical abortion regimen, states that fewer than 0.5% of women experience serious adverse reactions. Abortion advocates have leaned heavily on this figure, often pairing it with the claim that the pill is “safer than Tylenol.”

Both claims deserve scrutiny.

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KEYWORDS: abortion; baby; hahasubstack; mifeprestrone; prolife

[EnderWiggin1970]

(From article):

A Pattern of Coercion — and Violence

Perhaps the most troubling dimension of this story is what happens when these drugs enter homes without oversight.

Peer-reviewed research suggests that nearly 70% of women with a history of abortion describe their abortions as inconsistent with their own values and preferences, with one in four characterizing their experience as unwanted or coerced. The mail-order system makes coercion easier to carry out and harder to detect. The case record speaks for itself.

Jona Affholder (Victim, Toledo, OH): A medical resident used his estranged wife’s identity to fraudulently order abortion pills online, then forced crushed pills into his sleeping pregnant girlfriend’s mouth. His medical license was suspended.

Jagmeet Sandhu (Perpetrator, Bakersfield, CA): Broke into his sleeping pregnant girlfriend’s home, held her at gunpoint, and forced her to swallow abortion drugs — killing their 12-week unborn child. He received just one year in jail for involuntary manslaughter.

Mason Herring (Perpetrator, Houston, TX): An attorney secretly spiked his wife Catherine’s drinks with abortion drugs seven times. She was hospitalized. Their daughter survived but was born 10 weeks premature with lasting developmental delays. The case directly inspired Louisiana legislation, signed into law in 2024, making mifepristone and misoprostol classified as controlled dangerous substances, the first state to do so.

Justin Banta (Perpetrator, Parker County, TX): Spiked his girlfriend’s coffee with abortion pills bought online, the same day she returned from a sonogram, showing a healthy 6-week pregnancy. She miscarried the next day after severe bleeding.

The “Vitamins” Case (Watertown, MA): Robert Kawada, 43-year-old man told his ex-girlfriend the abortion pills were iron supplements, then physically checked her mouth to confirm they dissolved.

Manishkumar Patel (Appleton, WI) & Scott Bollig (WaKeeney, KS): Patel received 22 years for spiking his girlfriend’s smoothie with crushed abortion drugs. Bollig received nearly 10 years for grinding an abortion pill into his girlfriend’s pancakes was charged with conspiracy to commit murder.

David Coots (Gig Harbor, WA): A former nurse practitioner secretly inserted abortion drugs directly into his patient and mistress’s body during what she believed was a medical visit. She suffered intense pain and hemorrhaging; ER doctors recovered drug residue inside her.

The Shield Law Case (TX/NY): A Texas mother ordered abortion pills online from a New York physician, without her teenage daughter’s knowledge, then forced her daughter, who wanted the pregnancy, to take them. The girl was hospitalized. The New York doctor faced zero legal accountability under state shield laws.

Normal, IL: Emerson Evans was charged with homicide after drugging his girlfriend with mifepristone at seven weeks, triggering severe hemorrhage. He told police he bought the pill for $50 from “a girl on campus.”

These are not isolated incidents. They represent a documented, growing pattern — enabled in part by a system that allows potent drugs to be ordered online, shipped to any address, and dispensed with no in-person oversight and no meaningful ability to verify who is actually taking them, or why. More cases are documented here.

[ClearCase_guy]

They won’t let me order cyanide on line. Because, you know, I might do something bad.
But I could order this stuff.

[Secret Agent Man]

Women are 100% responsible for their own body choices. They screech that all day with their pussy hats on, men aren’t allowed in the choice equation, by them.

[Salman]

When the goal is to kill babies, you think they are going to care about “collateral damage”?

[stanne]

“men aren’t allowed in the choice equation, by them.”

Really? Where do men not have a choice?

[Scrambler Bob]

cyanide?

put some in a bag and call it fentynal.

lose the bag in some alley.

[Secret Agent Man]

When it comes to if its born or not, none.

[Secret Agent Man]

You know men have zero legal rights, if you don’t you’re either lying or incredibly stupid. Dont gaslight here.

[reg45]

The quantity of fentanyl that is required to kill a person is less than the quantity of cyanide necessary to kill a person.

[stanne]

Men have no legal rights over abortion choices. So why don’t they wait til after marriage to procreate?

[NorthMountain]

whether women are being adequately protected

I'm rather more concerned with BABIES being adequately protected ... murderers who get injured when their murder weapons malfunction don't get any sympathy. From me, anyway.

[Secret Agent Man]

Why dont the women wait?

[EnderWiggin1970]

If you read the section I cited, the article points out MEN are ordering the abortion pills and then tricking or forcing (sometimes at literal gunpoint) their girlfriends/mistresses/rape victims to take the pills.

[stanne]

I thought you were talking about how men have no choice.