Posted on 06/02/2025 9:08:28 AM PDT by Morgana
Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French scientist who developed the abortion pill RU-486, also known as mifepristone, died Friday at his home in Paris at the age of 98. Pro-life advocates worldwide mourned the millions and millions of babies the abortion drug has killed.
Baulieu, born Étienne Blum on Dec. 12, 1926, in Strasbourg, developed RU-486 in 1982, a dangerous drug that blocks progesterone, a hormone essential for pregnancy, leading to the starvation of an unborn baby and his or her eventual death. The drug, which pro-life groups note has facilitated the loss of countless unborn children, not accounts for approximately 63% of abortions in the United States in 2023, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
Baulieu’s invention has been a tragedy for the unborn. Millions of babies have been denied life because of this pill, and its widespread use has desensitized society to the sanctity of human life from conception.
Baulieu, an endocrinologist who earned doctorates in medicine in 1955 and science in 1963, founded a pioneering hormone research unit at INSERM, France’s health and medical research institute. His work on RU-486, which he described as a “non-invasive” alternative to surgical abortion, faced fierce opposition from pro-life groups, including threats and criticism labeling him a facilitator of mass killing. Despite this, Baulieu spent decades advocating for the drug’s global approval, arguing it somehow helped women despite killing millions of girl babies and killing and injuring many women who took the pill.
In 2023, when Wyoming became the first U.S. state to ban the abortion pill, Baulieu, then 96, called the decision “scandalous,” insisting he had dedicated his life to “increasing the freedom of women.” Pro-life advocates countered that such bans protect both unborn children and women from what they claim are significant health risks, citing a study reporting that 1 in 10 women experienced serious complications from mifepristone.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who awarded Baulieu the Grand Cross of the Legion d’Honneur in 2023, called him “a beacon of courage.”
Pro-life voices, however, see his death as an opportunity to reflect on the ethical questions surrounding his creation.
I don't agree with Life News however, I'd put the death toll into the billions and not millions.
"Pro-life voices, however, see his death as an opportunity to reflect on the ethical questions surrounding his creation."
All I have to say to that statement is....
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His wife claims this horrid drug, created by her now deceased husband....lengthened the lives of ‘many women’ ... well, the ones who weren’t MURDERED by this pill, that is. 😡
These sinister creeps always overlook the lives of the innocents that they took away.
Did he kill his own offspring?
Eccles. 7:15
All things have I seen in the days of my vanity; there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.
Not sure, but I think his weather forecast for this morning is scorching hot with a strong chance of sulfur in the afternoon.
He’s not going to like the reckoning he’s facing and where he is now.
He is now fully cognizant of the consequences of his evil actions.
“His wife claims this horrid drug, created by her now deceased husband...”
I wonder if she ever took the drug? Did this man’s daugther(s), granddaughers(s) other extended family ever take this drug?
If they did what were their feelings about it? If they didn’t why didn’t they?
Good!
“Did he kill his own offspring?”
I’m wondering that too.
RU-486
meaning?
Take the last part first. “86” In slang, “86” primarily means to throw out, get rid of, or refuse service to someone or something.
So...read it this way...
“Are You For 86?” RU-486
Related: DAVID HUME—Atheist philosopher famous for his philosophy of empiricism and skepticism of religion: He cried loud on his death bed “I am in flames!” It is said his desperation was a horrible scene.
I’m at work right now, so I’m not going to start searching the internet for mifepristone, but IIRC, it was originally developed for a different reason. I want to say cancer research (and shrinking tumors) but I really don’t remember exactly. Unfortunately, it had a side effect of aborting babies when used by pregnant women.
This side effect soon became the feature rather than the bug and they capitalized on it.
This is also the reason why it has side effects and complications — because this wasn’t the use it was intended for.
98 years old - as though the Lord was giving him many opportunities to repent.
And the deaths of those who might have been mothers if they...
He will confront one angry Creator of the Universe.
Kill the little baby people, but hands off the Spotted Owls.
Agree!!
Good questions.
That they’ll be held accountable for.
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