Experts sound the alarm over 'shocking' study showing significant risks to women who take abortion pills

A caller survey exposing a important fig of "serious adverse events" occurring among women who person taken mifepristone, also known arsenic the "abortion pill," has sparked an outcry from the pro-life community, including experts who spoke to Fox News Digital astir what the survey means for women successful the United States. 

"The biggest happening that volition daze astir readers of this study is conscionable however antithetic the findings successful this survey are from what the FDA claims connected the termination cause label," Katie Glenn Daniel, SBA Pro Life America manager of ineligible affairs, told Fox News Digital astir the recently released study. 

"What they recovered is that much than 1 successful 10 women volition spell to the exigency country seeking follow-up attraction aft taking the termination drugs. The FDA claims that's much similar 1 successful 20 women, which is inactive concerning, right? If you've got a 1 successful 20 accidental of thing happening, you mightiness instrumentality that seriously, but 1 successful 10. It is shocking," she continued. "This means hundreds of thousands of American women person gone to the infirmary for complications from abortions done these termination drugs and the FDA was not collecting accusation astir those situations. So this survey shines a airy connected what has been happening, what ER doctors surely cognize is happening. But what our nationalist wellness institutions person turned a unsighted oculus to."

Mifepristone is simply a "pregnancy blocker" that is utilized successful operation with different medication, misoprostol, to terminate pregnancies, according to Mayo Clinic. It is besides utilized to negociate aboriginal miscarriages, arsenic it helps hole the assemblage to bare the uterus.

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A caller survey shows that a important fig of women person been wounded by the termination pill. (Getty)

Research by the Ethics & Public Policy Center successful Washington, D.C., has revealed that the complaint of superior broadside effects is 22 times higher than what is indicated connected the FDA-approved cause label.

After going done an termination assisted by mifepristone, astir 11% of women — much than 1 successful 10 — reported experiencing "infection, hemorrhaging, oregon different superior oregon life-threatening adverse event," according to the survey summary.

"These reports, which analyzed the largest known information acceptable of real-world mifepristone use, corroborate what physicians similar maine and our members are seeing successful our objective practice: that termination drugs airs important dangers to women," Dr. Christina Francis, a board-certified OB/GYN, told Fox News Digital. 

"I person had patients look life-threatening hemorrhage, infection, and much aft taking these drugs, which are present disposable to bid online without an in-person doc sojourn to corroborate the property of the gestation and regularisation retired hazard factors. The information that these information amusement a superior complication complaint that is 22 times higher than what the FDA states reveals the urgent request for further probe into complications of drug-induced abortions and for policymakers and agencies to reprioritize women's information implicit the interests of the termination industry. Women and their children merit amended attraction than these unsafe drugs."

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Pro-abortion rights activists enactment successful the "Rally for Our Freedom" to support termination rights for Floridians successful Orlando, Florida. (CHANDAN KHANNA / AFP)

Mifepristone, which the Biden medication took steps to guarantee was made disposable to women done the mail, is the astir well-known termination pill successful the United States, and astir 63% of each abortions successful the U.S. successful 2023 were medicine abortions, according to the Guttmacher Institute. 

This was an summation from 53% successful 2020.

"We knew that the Biden administration's changes to the termination cause prescribing, which included allowing these drugs to beryllium sent done to mail. We knew that that was harmful for women and girls due to the fact that determination is nary aesculapian oversight," Daniel told Fox News Digital. "You don't adjacent cognize if a large woman's getting these drugs. There person been cases wherever men bid these drugs, to gaffe them to somebody. The authorities of Louisiana has a lawsuit close present wherever a parent ordered them and forced her girl to instrumentality them, adjacent though the gestation was wanted. So you truly suffer a batch of the safeguards that are successful spot erstwhile idiosyncratic really physically goes to a doctor's office."

Daniel told Fox News Digital she hopes this study volition promote the Trump administration’s FDA to instrumentality enactment to guarantee that women and unborn children are protected. 

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Mifepristone, besides known arsenic RU-486, is simply a medicine typically utilized successful operation with misoprostol to bring astir a aesculapian termination during gestation and negociate aboriginal miscarriage. (Getty Images)

"A cause that puts 1 successful 10 women successful the infirmary is surely not a cause that is punctuation unquote bully for women oregon caring for women and I deliberation we request to beryllium realistic astir that," Daniel said. 

Daniel besides explained that the existent harm from the pill is apt adjacent worse than the survey lone includes definite years and lone women who utilized insurance.

"So determination are tons of women, including those who are the astir vulnerable, who are near retired of this data," Daniel pointed out. 

"There is simply a batch much to look retired here," Daniel continued. "We spot this arsenic the starting constituent of what the FDA, the CDC, our nationalist wellness institutions, and our physicians request to beryllium looking at. And we request to person an honorable speech astir the information that 20 years of information shows that these drugs are deadly for children, but they're besides precise unsafe for successful girls."

Fox News Digital’s Melissa Rudy contributed to this report