Posted on 04/29/2025 3:31:47 PM PDT by Morgana
New study reveals an adverse event rate 22 times higher than the FDA-approved drug label reports.
(Washington, DC): In a first-of-its-kind study, “The Abortion Pill Harms Women”, the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) reveals that serious adverse events from mifepristone are approximately 22 times more frequent than the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) currently recognizes.
The study shows that, following a mifepristone abortion, 10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious or life-threatening adverse event. That is, over one in ten patients experience at least one serious adverse event.
The study, authored by Jamie Bryan Hall, EPPC’s Director of Data Analysis, and Ryan T. Anderson, EPPC’s President, calls on the FDA to revisit its previous research on and current regulation of mifepristone.
“This study is the statistical equivalent of a category 5 hurricane hitting the prevailing narrative of the abortion industry. It reveals, based on real-world data, the shocking number of women who suffer serious medical consequences because of the abortion pill. The Trump FDA should take immediate action to protect the safety of American women by reinstating the safety regulations that the Obama and Biden Administrations removed.” – EPPC President Ryan T. Anderson
This largest-ever study of the abortion pill is based on a HIPAA-compliant analysis of a health insurance claims database that includes 865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions from 2017 to 2023.
By contrast, the current FDA-approved drug label in based on the results of 10 clinical trials with a total of 30,966 women, less than 0.5 percent of whom reportedly experienced severe adverse reactions. Some of these trials were conducted as long as 42 years ago.
Danco Laboratories, which produces mifepristone boasts that more than 5 million U.S. women have used its abortion pill since it was approved in 2000. With chemical abortions now accounting for two-thirds of all abortions, it has become increasingly important to understand the risks to women from chemical abortion in general and from mifepristone in particular.
Strikingly, recent presidential administrations have significantly weakened medical requirements and protections for using the abortion pill. “The Abortion Pill Harms Women” reveals the startling impact of these policy decisions on the health of countless women.
Read the full study here.
Meet the new FDA, hopefully not the same as the old FDA.
REALLY bad for cell cluster I hear.
Aren’t they 100% fatal?
A murder pill has adverse effects? Who knew...
Adverse event #1.
At least one person dies.
I was an RN. I had a patient who evidently was on the pill at a young age, not sure but 16? At 18 it caused her to have a blood clot and made her a paraplegic at that age. Her mother was her complete care taker. Very sad, she was a beautiful young girl.
fen fen when it first came out sickened a number of folks, and killed a few- the EPA IMMEDIATELY stepped in and took it from the shelves-
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Abortion pills cause massive problems? Meh= nuttin to see, move along
It’s a game.
Every type of contraceptive pill they come up with is ultimately found out to be dangerous and pulled because of how they work.
Hormonally overpowering the human reproductive system which wants to work even if starving, crippled, living in fear, injured and unwanted, takes some pretty potent meddling with progestin and estrogen levels.
Once a contraceptive pill gets pulled, they already have a new name and slightly different formula ready to be revealed as the next contraceptive of choice, also to be eventually pulled in 5 or so years once the adverse side effects start rolling in.
BUT, because the pill is a feminist holy grail, we don’t entirely “follow the science” on that one. US health care, just like the US justice system, has a good dose of politics involved in some of the decisions.
Just an opinion:
A menopausal women will often find that insurance does not cover HRT.
HRT has been found to relieve menopause symptoms but ALSO REDUCE the incidence of certain cancer, heart conditions, osteoporosis, improve mood, sex drive, and more.
But if it’s a man that wants to be a woman, he will get the hormones paid for.
If it’s a woman that wants to have casual sex and have access to the pill, that will of course get paid for.
Who gets what today is largely driven by political considerations. Likewise, what is seen as safe and healthy (hormone blockers for self identified trans teens) or “the pill” simply get approved or stick around because of the politics, not the science.
As to “the pill,” expect all of them to increase the risk of:
-Blood clots
-Venous thromboembolism
-High blood pressure
-Breast cancer
-Heart attack
The abortion pill is NOT a contraceptive-birth control pills are hormone-based contraceptives and are not used for abortions. Those pills that cause chemical abortion don’t prevent pregnancy-they use chemicals in two doses to end the life of the unborn fetus that is tucked into its home in mom’s uterus to grow for a few months and be born. Birth control is not murder-abortion is...
And it’s the innocent little baby.
Shocked!
Same people for killing babies don’t care about the mothers either...SAVE THE PLANET from weed humans!
I am post menopausal for 20+ years-as a lifelong naturalist, I avoided all HRT during menopause, opting for natural-and safe-relief of symptoms. Later studies in the early 2000’s proved out that HRT does not reduce any risk of cancer, heart conditions, osteoporosis any more than a healthy diet of unprocessed food, containing calcium and other essential minerals and good family genes would. Natural remedies control hot flashes quite well...
HRT also increases the risk of breast and uterine cancer. Probably why docs are not recommending HRT for menopause any more-when nature tells your body stop making so much of those female hormones, there is a good reason-you don’t need them-your fertile, babymomma days are done-don’t mess with it. As for sex drive, there are plenty of effective herbal remedies on the market for that, and it is cheaper-and far more pleasant-than chemo if you get unlucky on HRT... Just my dos centavos from personal experience...
I’ll bet real money that as soon as enough women who use those abortion pills either are permanently injured, or die along with their unborn baby to attract public attention, the pills will be yanked from the market, just like so many new drugs are after just a year or two of being advertised and used everywhere. Then bring on the commercials advertising the usual ambulance chasers...
So long as the baby’s dead, who cares about the birthing person./s
Anti-pregnancy pharmaceuticals are abortifacient in some scenarios. See scenario three below.
https://www.hli.org/resources/if-you-take-birth-control-while-pregnant-will-it-kill-the-baby/
From the article at the link:
Eventually the older “high-dose” drugs gave way to the new “low-dose” drugs. Ortho/Johnson & Johnson, G.D. Searle/Monsanto, and Syntex, the three largest manufacturers of abortifacient birth controls in the United States, voluntarily withdrew their “high-dose” products from the U.S. market in 1988 on the advice of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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The newer low-dosage combination and progestin-only pills have three modes of action:
[1] The first of the three modes of action is the suppression of ovulation.
[2] The second mode of action is also contraceptive in nature. The drugs cause changes in the consistency and acidity of cervical mucus, making it more difficult for sperm to penetrate and live in the cervix.
[3] The third mode of action is abortifacient. The pills cause changes in the endometrium (lining of the uterus), making implantation more difficult. In a cycle where ovulation was not prevented and fertilization takes place, it causes a “silent abortion.”
I’m happy for you.
That’s not the answer for me or my wife.
You were not designed to live much past 35. Caveman was dead about then.
MOST of the illnesses we treat, MOST of the money spent on healthcare is for the treatment of geriatric conditions that are not defined as such: hips, knees, shoulders, spine, most heart, most cancers, osteoporosis, cataracts, most strokes...
Your endocrine system simply “shuts down” at a certain age, with men slowly (~1% per year post age 25), and women abruptly (i.e. menopause). Genetics and lifestyle of course play a major role in all of this.
I’m happy for you if you’re blessed with good genes and through healthy life choices are able to stretch out the inevitable or overcome some of the negative side effects of aging, though some of that may be a Hawthorn effect.
HRT has been repeatedly proven to be effective, both in men and women. Go ask most OBGYNs. There was one single study, many years back, which is quoted over and over which over stated the risks and minimized the benefits and is used by some to justify what is an illogical position. It also saved insurance a lot of money for many years!
If you went to the doctor with cataracts, him telling you to eat some supplement and do some exercises, or to just chalk it up to aging, would not go over well. Yet that is exactly what folks do regards their hormone levels as their body is essentially shutting down.
This is an issue where people latch onto the the science they feel supports their greater philosophical position. They are usually highly inconsistent since they will opt for medical intervention in a plethora of other areas addressing what are essentially age related conditions (orthopedics, cardiology, opthalmology, etc). They merely choose a vaccine (Covid being an exception: initially experimental, mRNA...), HRT, or their veganism as that one area where they define themselves as different, giving them some sense of intellectual or moral superiority.
There has been an exhaustive list of studies both US and foreign since 2000, one released just last year (2024). The preponderance of evidence suggests the complete opposite and that while like all medical intervention there are pros and cons, HRT is generally beneficial for women. A simple read on the topic, and less scientific (albeit studies are referenced) but going through the logic of why HRT makes sense: https://www.amazon.com/Outliving-Your-Ovaries-Endocrinologist-Replacement/dp/1461018781?dplnkId=29242a54-44bb-4089-96d4-15eaa70c9984
Of course you can do what you want. It’s your body, your values, your money. Healthcare in America has become socialized, conveyor belt health care, which refuses to acknowledge that there is no such thing as quality care when trying to force uniformity through a standard of care since people are unique.
I’m not arguing that people should be pushed into HRT. But they should be afforded the option and given all the arguments for and against (neutral no personal philosophy) and the treatment should be covered by insurance.
I hope your way works for you and yours-I’ve been drug free since childhood because I’ve had extreme drug sensitivity since then-so does my sibling-my mom was lucky enough to have a military pediatrician who understood such things and spaced our childhood vaxxes carefully to avoid killing or permanently injuring us. A flu shot will send me into anaphylactic shock, and one low dose Valium will put out my lights forever-I seldom even use OTC stuff, based on past experience. Needless to say, I avoided the wuflu vaxx as if it were the bubonic plague. Being raised on a ranch, I ate all natural, non-GMO, unprocessed food from day one, and I still do.
I realized the benefits of a natural lifestyle early on-many of my family members live that way-healthy and working-living into our 90’s is common-more so for those living in rural areas. There is no family history of cancer or diabetes. I’m Hispanic-of Spanish ancestry, but I don’t think that has anything to do with it-those of us with Spanish ancestry do have more Neanderthal DNA though-up to 3%...
I’m not a vegan-I follow a paleo type diet-I do eat meat and fish-protein is necessary for health-God made us omnivores. I live in a rural area populated by a lot of drug-free all organic naturalist types-many have gone Galt/off grid-I suppose we are old conservative hippies of a sort.
Like me, many own and operate small businesses from mechanic shops to tourist traps catering to the snowbirds who spend the Winters here. The young ones prefer to homeschool their kids or send them to the small Christian school-our public schools have fewer students every year because of that-good thing. The population is atypical in that the only folks who are not conservatives, self-sufficient, don’t have gardens and livestock, and are overweight live in a few gated enclaves like they are still in a city, rather than on acreage. They are also the ones who whine because there is no fast food out here (not a profitable customer base for it), while the rest of us are thrilled about that... \
We are all different-one size does not fit all-I believe every adult should have the right to choose whatever drug/remedy they want to use, as long as they know the REAL risks/benefits-not the hyped ones from big pharma-if so, then let the insurance companies cover them ALL-that is what we pay premiums for. I avoid the hormones and drugs based on what I’ve seen with my friends and coworkers who used them, as well as the studies on them-they are not safe or beneficial for me and it appears they are not for a lot of others, either. I eat the way I do because it works for me-I have never been overweight-weigh the same 100-105 that I weighed at 17, still work for my living, etc. I’ve had a couple of injuries years ago-a broken ankle, some bulging discs-but I take supplements to maintain health and use proper body mechanics when working so pain is not a big issue. I hope you do not have any bad effects from the path you follow, if you feel it works for you...
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