Planned Parenthood seeks injunction against Arkansas chemical abortion regulations

liveactionnews.org ^ | December 30, 2015 | Calvin Freiburger

[Morgana]

Planned Parenthood of the Heartland, the Planned Parenthood affiliate covering Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and eastern Oklahoma, has filed a lawsuit against a newly-enacted Arkansas law requiring abortion drugs be prescribed in accordance with federal Food and Drug Administration standards.

The law, which is slated to go into effect Friday, requires Mifeprex medication abortions (mifepristone and misoprostol) to be administered at the dose the FDA recommends rather than the much lower dosage that has become common among abortion practice, and that women take misoprostol pills in-clinic rather than on their own.

Planned Parenthood claims the FDA protocols are based on outdated and obsolete medical knowledge, and that by taking effect the law “would end access to two out of the three abortion-providing health centers in the state.”

However, as Live Action News has covered regarding similar legal battles in other states, these drugs have been linked to several deaths by sepsis and many personal accounts of negative experiences. A 2011 study published in the Australian Family Physician found that chemical abortions carried substantially higher rates of medical complications than surgical abortions.

So far, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, a Republican, has declined to comment on the lawsuit.

[Morgana]

"The law, which is slated to go into effect Friday, requires Mifeprex medication abortions (mifepristone and misoprostol) to be administered at the dose the FDA recommends rather than the much lower dosage that has become common among abortion practice, and that women take misoprostol pills in-clinic rather than on their own."

Okay allow me to further explain why PP wants to give it at a lower dose than the FDA requires. Mainly it might cause a miscarriage but only half does the job so the woman has to come in for the rest which is a surgical abortion to complete the job. First they sell her the faulty Mifeprex then turn around and sell her an abortion when that only half worked if at all. It's a dirty trick. There are to be three pills given and I have read stories of them only giving women two, then the women have to come back. Sadly most of these women are not educated on RU 486 and don't know there are to be three pills always.

[demshateGod]

Is this part of PP that some primary candidates say is the good part that they want to keep funding?

[RginTN]

Follow the money. Its all PP cares about.