Action Alert: Call on Congress and the FDA to Pull the Dangerous Abortion Pill
COLUMBUS—A shocking new report released last week exposes a devastating medical reality: the abortion pill harms women.
The study is the largest ever real-world analysis of the abortion pill. It found that the “rate of serious adverse events following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high” as reported by the FDA on the drug label.
According to the research conducted by the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), nearly 11 percent of women who took the pill experienced sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or other serious adverse events within 45 days of taking mifepristone to induce an abortion.
The EPPC based its research on data from all-payer insurance claims, which revealed that more than 94,000 complications were reported among the more than 865,000 prescribed mifepristone abortions between 2017 and 2023.
Center for Christian Virtue is calling on the FDA to revoke approval of mifepristone immediately while further research is conducted to protect the health and safety of women.
“It's clear the FDA has put women at risk by weakening the regulations on the abortion pill,” said Aaron Baer, President of CCV. “Considering that the Ohio Department of Health reports that in 2023, nearly half of the 22,000 abortions performed in Ohio in 2023 used Mifepristone, the FDA cannot delay in pulling this drug from pharmacy shelves while more research is conducted.”
TAKE ACTION NOW
Use Center for Christian Virtue’s One-Click Action Center to call on your US Representative and US Senator, as well as Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and FDA Commissioner Martin Makary, MD, to revoke the FDA approval for the abortion pill, also known as mifepristone, to protect the lives of women.
LEARN MORE: Read more about the study at StopHarmingWomen.org.
For more information, contact CCV at 513-733-5775 or contact@ccv.org. For media inquiries, email media@ccv.org.
As Ohio's largest Christian public policy organization, Center for Christian Virtue seeks the good of our neighbors by advocating for public policy that reflects the truth of the Gospel.
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