Various abortion states such as California, New York, and Massachusetts, have enacted and/or proposed “shield laws” to provide sanctuary to abortion providers from the law.
Currently Illinois is looking to “bolster the scope” of its shield law to give cover for abortion providers who prescribe chemical abortion drugs, according to top-100 law firm Nixon Peabody.
If the state has its way abortion providers will be protected as they send dangerous chemical abortion drugs across state lines.
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Illinois will likely amend its current shield law to mirror New York’s law which enables prescribers to instruct pharmacies to keep their name off chemical abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol.
Christa Brown, senior director of Medical Impact for Heartbeat International, weighed in on the effect of removing the responsibility from abortion providers in this fashion.
“These abortion providers who prescribe across state lines want to hide their faces,” Brown said. “This would never be considered in other medical care.”
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“Big abortion has long aspired to be part of legitimate healthcare while simultaneously separating themselves from authentic medicine that actually heals, cares, and protects patients,” she said.
Heartbeat is the largest network of pregnancy help organizations in the U.S. and the world. Brown in her role managing the Abortion Pill Rescue Network, can attest to the fallout of chemical abortion drugs, with well over 150 women each month contacting the Network for assistance in reversing their chemical abortions.
Brown’s observation that this anonymity would not be allowed in legitimate medical care underscored how from the inception of the abortion industry there has been an evolution of making what was once unthinkable acceptable, with seemingly no end to the progression of this.
Quite simply, there is no other prescribed medicine exempted from the prescriber’s identification.
“As these prescribers override abortion laws in other states, Illinois shield laws already provide protections against out-of-state investigations and prosecutions, professional discipline, and civil liability,” Brown said.
“This lack of accountability should be shocking to the public and a shame to this state who puts politics before the safety of patients,” Brown added.
Other states may want to protect women from abortion drugs which have been shown to be less safe than surgical abortion, or a state may choose to regulate these drugs over concerns for the water supply and how fetal remains present contamination therein. Illinois is thus disregarding the sovereignty of these other states and their laws.
Illinois’s proposed action is not in line with protecting women from the risk of abortion, a risk that is increased with mail order abortion drugs. This action rather suggests intent to help abortion providers avoid responsibility and expand the profitability of the abortion industry.
“This bill attempts to further distance abortion providers from any liability and malpractice claims and violates the right of patients who might be harmed by these dangerous drugs,” Brown said.
Existing federal and state laws and regulations mandate the identification of the prescriber on prescription labels for obvious reasons.
It isn’t enough for pro-abortion Illinois lawmakers to have abortion on demand, funded by taxpayers, at any gestational age—now they seek to remove any source of accountability that may impede abortionists from making a profit while putting women at unnecessary risk.
Editor's note: Heartbeat International manages the Abortion Pill Rescue® Network (APRN) and Pregnancy Help News. Heartbeat is currently the subject of two lawsuiys brought by state AGs concerning sharing information about Abortion Pill Reversal.
