They are also experiencing side effects, according to a report by the National Right to Life.
By Catholics for Catholics
An increasing number of women are having abortion pill complications that are underreported, as well as suffering side effects, according to new data.
The National Right to Life (NRTL), a pro-life advocacy group, circulated a report Monday, titled “Missed, Misclassified, and Minimized: Why Abortion Pill Complications Are Underreported.”
In the report, NRTL President Carol Tobias cautioned that “women are being harmed, and the dangers are being ignored or hidden,” according to the Christian Post.
The NRTL report comes as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told state lawmakers this week that the FDA would direct a new review of the safety of the abortion pill procedure.
According to the Christian Post, the report builds on the findings of an Ethics and Public Policy Center analysis of 865,000 insurance claims that found 11% of women who took the abortion pills experienced “serious adverse events,” including hemorrhaging and infection.
NRTL contrasts these statistics with those of FDA trials that found 0.5% of women who take the abortion pills suffer from serious complications.
The report was written by NRTL Director of Education and Research, Randall O’Bannon. He ascribes the underreporting of complications to three principal factors: women being encouraged to hide their abortions during emergency room visits, the failure of the media to cover such cases, and what he described as “abortion industry spin.”
“Women are made to think that revealing their use of [abortion pills] will expose them to possible prosecution or at least exposure to their friends or relatives and advocates say this may make them reluctant to seek needed treatment,” read the report.
The Christian Post reported that the study highlighted a statement featured on the pro-abortion advocacy website Aid Access advising women that they “do not have to tell the medical staff that you tried to induce an abortion; you can tell them that you had a spontaneous miscarriage” because “the symptoms of a miscarriage and an abortion with pills are exactly the same and the doctor will not be able to see or test for any evidence of an abortion, as long as the pills have completely dissolved.”
“The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) advises that Ob-Gyns ‘should not report pregnancy outcomes unless legally compelled to do so,’” the report stated.
“ACOG tells health care professionals that even if a patient discloses their attempted chemical abortion ‘documenting and reporting of the information can cause harm to the patient as well as the health care professional involved in the patient’s care.’”
The report said that whenever “the media has talked to a few of these women or published their stories describing the agony of the process and the trauma of losing their children, their experiences are generally downplayed or dismissed as transitory or even blamed on pro-life laws or policies.”
O’Bannon accuses many in the media of “blindly accepting the claims and spin of the abortion industry.”
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