(Washington Examiner) The Food and Drug Administration is expanding access to abortion pills, allowing pharmacies to dispense chemical abortions with little to no oversight. This radical change comes while the administration is pushing for regulation against pregnancy help organizations.
Pregnancy help organizations provide care and service to women at no cost. Chemical abortion drugs, which can be dispensed through the mail, at an abortion facility, or now through your local pharmacy, can be costly and ultimately take the life of a human being.
Those who benefit the most from the government’s crackdown on pregnancy centers and leniency toward the abortion industry are the pharmaceutical companies. Those who suffer most are women and the children whose chance at life has been taken from them.
Chemical abortion drugs are extremely dangerous and can have life-threatening effects. More women go to the hospital due to complications from chemical abortions than surgical abortions. Yet these drugs, which are often available via mail order or telehealth, are often administered without oversight or restriction. Doctors have been taken out of the picture almost entirely. This leaves a woman alone to assess her physical symptoms during the abortion process, which can be dangerous, both physically and mentally.
The psychological and physical side effects of abortion are nothing new. We have known about the risks of both surgical and chemical abortions since each became legal. Some women experience extreme physical side effects, including death. Many women have hemorrhaging and very painful side effects.
Yet the current administration continues to advance any and all opportunities to expand abortion. Democrats, for example, have introduced bills that ban providing women with key information about abortion pill reversal, a lifesaving process that may give women who regret taking the first abortion pill a chance to save their pregnancies. Why make a law to keep such information from women?
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Statistics from the Abortion Pill Rescue Network show more than 4,000 women have been able to reverse their chemical abortion decision. Out of sheer desperation, and in search of hope, these women go on the internet and search “how to reverse my abortion.” They find the Abortion Pill Rescue Network, a network of healthcare professionals available to provide women with the care they need to have a second chance to choose life.
The incredible lifesaving tool? It’s just progesterone. That is what these healthcare professionals provide. Flooding a woman’s system with progesterone helps override the effect of the first abortion pill, which blocks the vital nutrient from getting to the growing fetus.
Progesterone is something every woman’s body produces to sustain her pregnancy, and it is nothing new in the medical profession. In fact, many pregnant women are given progesterone by their doctors every day because it helps sustain pregnancies at risk for miscarriage. It has been offered by medical practitioners since the 1950s.
Yet politicians and abortion advocacy groups want to deny women this valuable lifesaving information. Abortion pill reversal works two out of three times and gives women a chance to choose life for their child. No woman should be forced to complete an abortion she no longer wants.
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Politicians and abortion advocacy groups have embarked on a two-pronged agenda: strip regulations away for the dangerous use of the abortion pill and hide lifesaving information from women. This is dangerous, manipulative, and, of course, profitable.
Editor's note: This article was published by the Washington Examiner and is reprinted with permission. Heartbeat International manages the Abortion Pill Rescue® Network (APRN) and Pregnancy Help News.
