I’m angry. In fact, I’m furious!
Why? I just read ANOTHER story about a woman who was given, or tricked into taking, the abortion pill.
The story is familiar. Boyfriends, sometimes even husbands–the father of the preborn baby—obtain the pills online. They crush the pills and slip them into coffee or hot chocolate or place them in pancakes and smoothies.
The unsuspecting women, who do not want an abortion, are left in shock and pain at the loss of their child, not to mention the betrayal of some man they thought they could trust.
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In other heartbreaking stories, women are giving the abortion pills to their pregnant daughters. We will never know how many children have been lost against the pregnant moms’ wishes.
The abortion industry claims they are “helping” women by making the abortion pills–mifepristone and misoprostol–so readily available. But making it easier for someone to obtain the pills by placing a mail-order with abortionists in New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, and several other states, is harming women, not helping them.
It is apparent that the industry’s claim that they support women means they support only women who want an abortion. They don’t care about the women who want to have their baby. They are willing to callously distribute pills even if used against the woman’s desire to have her baby.
So-called “shield laws” in many states (23 at last count) give legal protection to those who send the deadly drugs from abortion-friendly states into states with laws that protect unborn children. I whole-heartedly support a new law in Texas that would allow abortionists to be sued for sending these harmful pills into the state, in violation of state law.
Filling the judicial system with lawsuits against abortion providers may be the only way to wake up a nation that prefers to ignore the attack on vulnerable women.
In an instance of double standards, a woman in Illinois is suing an abortion provider for leaving her with a perforated uterus and “half of a deceased pre-born human being in the right pelvis of the patient with evidence of severe and intentional trauma.”
The woman is listed in the court filing as “Jane Doe,” but the abortionist’s attorney is asking a judge to require her name be publicly revealed. This is an obvious attempt to intimidate and harass the woman into dropping the suit.
Since our entire national abortion chaos came about with two US Supreme Court decisions using the pseudonyms “Roe” and “Doe,” it is hypocritical for abortion advocates to now say women have to use their real names in court.
Even a surface dive into AI tells us that, “While the legal system generally favors transparency, reproductive rights cases are considered a special category where the need for privacy often outweighs the public’s right to know a plaintiff’s identity.”
If anonymity is available for the abortion industry, it must also be available to women seeking justice for harm done to them.
David Reardon, founder of The Elliot Institute, has compiled studies showing the harmful effects of abortion on women. A study in Quebec confirms that psychiatric hospitalization is over twice as likely to occur after induced abortions than after delivering a live baby.
Referring to several studies on the issue, Reardon wrote, “We now know that the majority of abortion patients say that their abortions did negatively impact their mental health. To insist that abortion never impacts mental health is, essentially, an assertion that all these women liars. That is an absurd, ideologically driven fantasy.”
But we still hear from abortion activists and their allies in the media that abortion is “safer than Tylenol” or penicillin; that most people are fine physically and emotionally after an abortion.
This is extremely misleading misinformation.
We need to keep speaking up and speaking out about the harm done to women.
We need to continue our efforts to support pregnancy centers against attacks from state and/or local governments so they may continue their amazing mission of helping women.
We need to continue the promotion of abortion pill reversal. A woman who starts the chemical abortion process, then changes her mind, needs to know she has a window of opportunity to save her baby.
We need to encourage state legislatures to pass NRLC’s model bill– the Abortion Pill Provider Liability Education (APPLE) Act. This legislation would require that women be informed of their right to sue the manufacturer, distributor, providers, and prescribers of chemical abortion pills for death, injury, failed or incomplete abortion. The Act would also require abortion providers to explain the dangers of chemical abortion pills.
If abortion providers are unwilling to acknowledge the serious harmful effects of abortion to both mother and unborn child, the exposure of financial consequences may be the most effective way to stop the reckless dispensing of these deadly drugs.
As long as babies are dying and women are being harmed, we’ll be here, fighting for Life.
LifeNews Note: Carol Tobias is the president of the National Right to Life Committee.
