Posted on 02/17/2025 12:14:32 PM PST by Morgana
The Colorado Senate Judiciary Committee advanced a bill last week that would protect abortionists who mail the abortion pill out of state by allowing them to leave their names off of pill bottles.
According to a state website, Senate Bill 25-129 “authorizes a prescription label for mifepristone, misoprostol, and the generic alternatives to those prescriptions to include only the name of the prescribing health-care practice instead of the name of the practitioner.” It has further provisions to shield and protect law-breaking abortionists in the state by prohibiting local entities from participating in out-of-state abortion investigations.
Colorado already has a shield law meant to protect its abortionists, as it outlaws abortion-related arrests, extraditions, search warrants, and court summons or subpoenas related to abortionists who violate the law in other states. This current Senate bill seeks to strengthen that law by making it harder to identify the abortionist responsible for a crime.
“With these out-of-state attacks, and again trying to cross borders, we want to be sure that doctors and providers feel comfortable at every level. So, if they don’t feel comfortable having their name but rather just the name of the practice on a prescription bottle, that feels like a reasonable accommodation so that they can feel a little bit safer,” said Sen. Lisa Cutter, one of the bill’s sponsors.
The ability for an abortionist to keep his or her name off of abortion pills is similar to legislation recently put into effect by New York Governor Kathy Hochul. That provision was put in place after a New York abortionist, Margaret Carpenter, mailed abortion pills to women in both Texas and Louisiana, prompting legal action from both of those states. Hochul strengthened her state’s shield law to protect abortionists like Carpenter who mail abortion pills into states where abortion is restricted by law; Colorado now appears willing to do the same.
Though many states have abortion pill restrictions to protect preborn children’s lives, these laws are also in place to protect women. The abortion pill comes with numerous risks, including severe cramping, contractions, and heavy bleeding, as well as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and headaches. Published percentages for emergency room (ER) visits on the drug’s insert indicate that 2.9 to 4.6 percent of women who take abortion drugs end up in the emergency room. A “no-test protocol” in which a woman does not first meet with a physician in person prior to taking the pills increases the risk. As lawmakers promote laws that protect abortionists who injure women in this manner, they are solidly saying that they do not care for women’s health.
The bill passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a vote of 5-2 along party lines and will next be heard before the full Senate.
" by allowing them to leave their names off of pill bottles"
Any actual doctors in the house here? Is there not a federal that says your name must be on the bottle when you prescribe a medication?
Any USPS workers in the house?
All packages carrying legal drugs must have this thing called a "valid return address"?
We have a coastal and Mexican legislature.
So if some woman or girl dies from these poison pills, does that mean that the grieving, angry family can hold the state responsible?
My wife just took these pills twice in the last year following back to back week 8-10 miscarriages. They are the go to medications to treat miscarriages vs invasive D&C surgery. As such for 10 weeks and under they are nearly ALWAYS given before the OB even contemplates the D&C. Recovery time is also a fraction of that after a full D&C. The only difference from a 10 week and under passing of pregnancy products from a miscarriage and the use of these pills is the first pill shutting off the pregnancy hormone levels thus ending the function of the placenta the second pills administered vaginally are identical they dilate the cervix and induce a menstrual cycle shedding of the uterine llining which is no different at that point between the two. The pregnancy products are of identical composition after the hormone levels are shut down. You also use the same first pill in a miscarriage if the woman’s hormones levels are still rising but there is confirmation of miscarriage via sonogram in that case then the pill sequence is identical. So don’t get all worked up over some perceived medical risk women who miscarry use these pills every day with minimal risk to avoid the much riskier D&C surgery. The only difference is your own personal moral standing medically that is irrelevant. At least argue from point of fact. There is no way I would ever tell my wife she had to go through a D&C she has once already vs using the pills that make the process a heavy period vs major surgery. These pills are perfectly safe , millions of women use them to save their fertility and lives vs surgery to remove pregnancy products that must be removed after miscarriages. Under 10 weeks there is no safer way to get these pproducts out of the body bar none.
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