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Study Touts Telabortion as Safe, Effective, Ignores Fate of Hundreds of Missing Patients

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research As certain as the summer sunshine, you can always count on the abortion industry to have some new “study” lined up as soon as they’ve got a new abortion policy or method to defend. The latest is “Effectiveness and safety of telehealth medication abortion …

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Mainstream Media Mislead about a New Telemed-Abortion Study

By Michael New On Thursday, the journal Nature published a study that purportedly shows that telemed chemical abortions pose few health risks. The study identified over 6,000 women who had obtained chemical abortion pills via telehealth. It found that they had a complication rate similar to that of women who had obtained chemical abortions after an in-person medical exam. …

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PolitiFact admits “Texas’ criminal and civil abortion penalties do not apply to women who get abortions”

By Dave Andrusko Whether it is a matter of design and/or ignorance, pro-abortionist love to portray pro-lifers as eager—VERY eager—to punish women who’ve aborted. Cynicism on steroids, you might say.  But some are so caught up in demonizing pro-lifers they could talk themselves into believing their own rhetoric. PolitiFact is not our friend. Enough said. …

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Countdown to the Supreme Court hearing a case determining whether there will safeguards to the use of the “abortion pill.”

By Dave Andrusko On December 13, 2023, the Supreme Court agreed to “weigh appeals from the Biden administration and drugmaker Danco defending several Food and Drug Administration decisions that made it easier to access and use the mifepristone pill,” according to Lawrence Hurley of NBC News. Much is at stake since the “abortion pill” accounts for over half …

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A Journal Retracts Three Studies Showing Health Risks of Chemical Abortions

By Michael J. New This week, Sage publications announced that it was retracting three studies that found that chemical abortions pose health risks. The primary author of each of these studies was James Studnicki, the vice president and director of data analytics at the Charlotte Lozier Institute. Co-authors of these studies included researchers from the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians …

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What if Pharmacists could be Abortion Pill Prescribers?

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. This appears in the February edition of National Right to Life News.  Please share this—and the entire 45 pages of the issue—with your pro-life family and friends. What if a pharmacist could not only dispense abortion pills, as the Biden administration has recently …

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Supreme Court to hear first abortion case since Dobbs on March 26

By Dave Andrusko And here we go. The Supreme Court today released its calendar for March oral arguments and said they will hear FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on March 26. It’s the first time since the court’s historic 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization overturning Roe, that the justices will weigh in on the issue of abortion. The …

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Biden administration defends FDA’s reckless betrayal of women and girls

Editor’s note. Alliance Defending Freedom responded yesterday to the opening briefs the U.S. Department of Justice and Danco Laboratories filed Tuesday with the U.S. Supreme Court in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. “Women and girls should have the ongoing care of a doctor when taking high-risk drugs,” said Alliance Defending Freedom …

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Claims that Mifepristone is “Safer than Viagra, Penicillin, or Tylenol” Don’t Withstand Scrutiny

NRLC Special Report, Part Three of Three By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education and Research Editor’s note. We saw in Part 1 that the latest data does not support the contention that mifepristone is safer than common drugs like Tylenol, penicillin, and Viagra. In Part 2 , we showed why it doesn’t make sense to compare …

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Claims that Mifepristone is “Safer than Viagra, Penicillin, or Tylenol” Don’t Withstand Scrutiny

NRLC Special Report, Part Two of Three By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education and Research Editor’s note. Part One gave us more current data on Tylenol, penicillin and Viagra, making it plain that the abortion pill’s defenders are exaggerating those common drugs’ risks and underplaying risks associated with mifepristone.  Today, we’ll consider why …

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Claims that Mifepristone is “Safer than Viagra, Penicillin, or Tylenol” Don’t Withstand Scrutiny

NRLC Special Report, Part One of Three By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education and Research Every time abortion pills are back in the news, you can count on some hot shot reporter taking the bait offered by the abortion industry and repeating carefully crafted but factually suspect claims that “mifepristone is safer than…” …

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Chemical abortion harms women

As an example of the harm that has already occurred, a friend and fellow OBGYN hospitalist recently shared the tragic experience of a patient he treated a few months ago. Giselle, let’s call her, became pregnant and opted to undergo a chemical abortion using mifepristone and misoprostol. Her clinic told her to expect a couple …

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