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by Guy Page
Three days after the Vermont Legislature gave immunity to nurses who prescribe abortion-inducing drugs based on information provided in a questionnaire, a new study revealed that mifepristone, the drug used in most chemical abortions, has a significantly higher complication rate than the abortion industry and government agencies have long reported.
The Senate passed S.28 Friday, April 25. It now goes to Gov. Scott for his signature. State law provides the state Medical Board may “revoke, suspend, or otherwise discipline” nurses for various infractions. In addition to restricting pregnancy resource center advertising and withholding information about fetal deaths, S.28 would exempt from any such action advanced practice registered nurses “prescribing medication for an individual to terminate the individual’s pregnancy based on an adaptive questionnaire.”
According to the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) study, based on insurance claim data from 865,727 mifepristone abortions performed between 2017 and 2023, 10.93% of women experienced serious complications — including sepsis, infection, hemorrhage, hospitalization, or other events qualifying as “serious adverse reactions.”
The Legislature has willfully overlooked the severe health consequences of mifepristone, despite testimony about its hazards, Vermont Right to Life executive director Mary Beerworth said.
“The current majority in the legislature has demonstrated a callous disregard for young girls and women by allowing these dangerous abortion drugs to be prescribed by a mere online chat rather than an in-person visit with a medical provider,” Beerworth said. “Committee members of the House and Senate heard testimony from both Vermont Right to Life, as well as the Vermont Medical Practice Board, that should have raised caution flags. However, it has become the pattern over the past several years for pro-abortion legislators to prioritize Planned Parenthood’s wish list before any other issue confronting Vermonters.”
Beerworth did not exempt Governor Phil Scott from criticism. “The Governor also has a track record of saying ‘how high’ when the abortion giant says ‘jump.’ Expect Scott to sign the bill,” she said.
The EPPC study figure is far greater than the less than 0.5% serious complication rate frequently cited from FDA-approved clinical trials, a statement by National Right to Life said.
“Every time pro-lifers want to challenge safety claims made about the abortion pill mifepristone, abortion advocates and their loyal media allies like to quote the claim of the drug’s official label from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that clinical studies showed ‘serious adverse reactions were reported in <0.5% of women,’” said Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., director of Education and Research at National Right to Life. “New data taken from the field show figures are twenty-two times that.”
The research, conducted by Jamie Bryan Hall and Ryan T. Anderson of EPPC, drew from a broad spectrum of real-world insurance claims, suggesting the findings more accurately reflect the risks women face today.
O’Bannon emphasized the importance of the findings, noting that women are often not fully informed about the risks associated with chemical abortions. “Women are told that the complication rate for chemical abortions is minimal, but hemorrhage, infection, and failure to identify rupturing ectopic pregnancies are the realities,” he said. He also pointed out that tracking complications became significantly more difficult after a 2016 FDA decision requiring only the reporting of deaths — not all serious complications — associated with mifepristone use.
The full EPPC report, titled The Abortion Pill Harms Women, is available here.
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Thank you Mary B for addressing the serious potential complications with the “abortion pill”, which is even worse than I had even thought possible, and thank you Guy for this article.
NOW, we need to assure that the Governor is made aware of this information ASAP, and not just from Mrs. Beerworth, but from any, and all, of us that share concerns about the potential for the medication to be prescribed without a medical evaluation. This no longer a political dispute among the Legislators, but there is valid information that should be seriously considered.
Would it be possible for VDC to help us prepare a letter, with names, to go to the Governor?
It is very easy to write to Gov Scott. Just google his name and go to where to write a letter to him. Just did it.
Yes, thank you very much Guy for this article. Also, if you want to listen to a commentary regarding this issue from Al Mohler that came out today: https://albertmohler.com/the-briefing/ – we ALL need to contact the Governor’s office and let him know that this needs his VETO and not his signature. Help keep women safe and the child within them safe too. “Inside the medical system, women in states with bans are accessing telehealth abortion from providers in EIGHT states, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, VERMONT, and Washington.” Now get this, “That have telehealth provider shield laws allowing clinicians to serve those seeking abortions no matter where in the US they reside.” an excerpt from Al Mohler.
Please call or email Governor Scott TODAY!! Say no to S.28!!
PPNNE does not care if women or adolescent and teen girls are at risk of complications from the abortion pills. Imagine a 12 or 13 year old getting a chemical abortion without parent knowledge and consent, with a 10% risk of complication, and then that young girl being afraid to tell their parents that something doesn’t seem right, and not receiving prompt, critical care in the event of an emergency.
It probably happens fairly frequently, but we will never hear about that from mainstream media.
The one disgusting silver lining in this tragedy is that many, many young girls and women are now delivering their tiny babies—most dead, but some still alive—in their toilets, in their bathtubs, on their floors, and in their underwear. This horrendous sight and experience shocks and traumatizes them immediately, especially when they’ve been told that their baby growing inside them is not a human or a baby, but merely a blob of tissue or clump of cells. As a result of this trauma, many of them will not wait the requisite twenty, thirty, or forty years before coming to grips with the reality and the grief of what they have done.
But they will reach out for help much sooner and, hopefully, will find compassionate hope, help, healing, and the forgiveness and love of Jesus Christ at Vermont’s ten pregnancy resource centers, instead of living many years with the physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual torture of PTSD because they were, in fact, not given all their options, but the “easy way to take care of their problem.” When the devil promises an “easy way,” you can bet it’s the way of death, despair, and destruction.
A sliver of a silver lining, but thank God that He is a Redeemer who loves to take those horrible and painful things the evil one has meant for harm, and work it all for good because He loves us and loves to make all things new.
The potential health risks & mortality risks posed by these drugs are right on – wait for it – the CDC’s own website! You know, the fav go-to page for leftists, except when the information posted doesn’t jive with their narrative!
The drug is dangerous and can cause death in certain cases like ANY OTHER drug – pharmaceutical or street. It is NOT “innocuous” and should certainly be taken only under medical supervision.
But? Killing as many babies as possible is the priority.
This product is a perfect example of an FDA that responded purely to political pressure and ignored the safety and efficacy issues that were entrusted to them.
The pro-choice feminists like to use the symbol of the coathanger with the slash through it…this pill is like going back to the coathanger.