Mifepristone, the drug the abortion industry sells to Americans, “causes hundreds of thousands of chemical abortions of unborn children,” according to a new report at the Washington Stand.
And it “sends one of every 10 women who take it to the hospital emergency room with serious, potentially fatal medical complications.”
As such, it should be banned, according to Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo.
Mifepristone, in fact, is the American abortion industry’s new savior, as surgical abortions are declining. It can be prescribed over the phone or online, it can be delivered by mail even into states that bar abortions, and the industry claims it’s safe and effective.
“The abortion drug is not safe, it’s not safe for the babies it kills almost every single time and it’s not safe for the mother either because in more than one in 10 cases, the mother who takes that pill is sent to an emergency room with a life-threatening condition,” Hawley said at the Family Research Council Action’s Pray Vote Stand Summit Thursday.
“And the pharmaceutical companies who make that drug, they lie about it because they make money on abortions. The more abortions there are, the more money they make. We have more abortions in this country now than we did when Roe v. Wade was the law of the land because of the abortion drug. It is turning every mailbox in America into a Planned Parenthood clinic. We cannot allow this to go on, we need to ban it.”
The senator continued, “Congress needs to ban the abortion drug in the United States of America. I have introduced legislation to do that, and I am challenging my Republican colleagues and everybody who is running for office, if you are pro-life, you cannot be for the abortion drug.”
His plan is the Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act.
Family Research Council chief Tony Perkins said, “What’s happened is this policy that was put in place by the Biden administration, it’s been kept in place by the Trump administration, it has allowed the abortion industry to adopt an Amazon business model, and mailboxes across America have been turned into the instruments of abortion.”
He went on, “As a result, we have more abortions today than we did before the overturn of Roe v. Wade [in the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson U.S. Supreme Court decision], about a 21% increase in the number of abortions and about two-thirds of those are done with the abortion pill. Even in pro-life states — many of you come from pro-life states, I’m from the pro-life state of Louisiana, it doesn’t matter — we now have more abortions in Louisiana than before Dobbs because of this abortion pill and it’s got to be stopped.”
Other PVSS speakers included former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Dr. Ben Carson, former Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, who is now chairman of the FRC board of directors, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall (R), and many others.
Actually, the use and promotion of the drug currently is under review in several federal courts.
Hawley’s wife, Eric, who was a member of the ADF team that argued for the Dobbs case before the Supreme Court, as well as in the present proceedings, explained that mifepristone drug companies have standing in court for one reason: money.
She said they “absolutely” are making money.
“They make less money if they sell less drugs that kill unborn children,” she said.
Hawley noted, “The primary maker of the abortion pill is a company called Danco that you will be shocked to learn I am sure was initially funded by George Soros. It’s also funded by a whole bunch of people with an entity called the Population Council. These are hard leftists who think that humans are ruining the planet, that the fewer children we have, the better — the human race essentially is a parasite on this planet.”
He said Danco “is based in the Cayman Islands in the Caribbean. Their entire board of directors is private. All of their paperwork, all of their financials, their books, they won’t release any of it. They are trying to avoid regulation. But, as Erin just said, they are making billions of dollars every year because they only make one product, the abortion drug. Their entire business, their entire industry, is based on killing American babies, and they don’t even want to be subject to regular Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight. This has got to change. We need to ban this drug.”
