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New Jersey Rep. Josh Gottheimer has falsely claimed that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has “never issued a warning” against buying abortion pills online, which often occurs through the mail. The pro-abortion activist lawmaker made the claim during a press conference outside a pro-life pregnancy resource center, where he besmirched the center’s credibility while unveiling plans to further target these life-saving centers as “deceptive.” The press conference held on April 22, 2024, which aired live on the congressman’s Facebook page, took place outside one of the offices of the First Choice Pregnancy Center where the pro-abortion representative described...

Because of a new FDA ruling, the abortion pill Mifeprex (mifepristone) may now be obtained directly through retail pharmacy stores instead of directly from a doctor. The drug still requires a prescription, however, from a physician or certified prescriber. On its webpage about mifepristone and “medical termination of pregnancy through 10 weeks gestation,” the FDA on Jan. 3 announced that it was modifying its rules for obtaining the abortion drug. Under the new modification, “Mifeprex and its approved generic can be dispensed by certified pharmacies or by or under the supervision of a certified prescriber,” said the FDA. In the...

Live Action News recently uncovered the fact that one original investor in the abortion pill’s manufacturer is also now financially supporting a company producing a generic version of the abortion pill — all while pushing for the expansion of abortion. Abortion pill manufacturer DANCO Laboratories, a highly secretive company, was started with funding from several abortion philanthropy groups, including the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, which has invested well over $14.2 million in the manufacturer since at least the year 2000. That was the year that Mifeprex was approved and brought to the U.S. by the eugenics-founded Population Council. It...

At least 22 women have died after taking the abortion pill regimen, RU-486, and many others have experienced serious complications, according to updated data from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). While abortion — and specifically, medication abortion — is sold to women as “safe,” there can be serious and life threatening complications from the abortion pill, as noted by the pills’ manufacturer, Danco. Although Danco is required to report any death associated with Mifeprex, women experiencing complications, various factors — such as not returning to the abortion provider or not reporting use of the drug to emergency personnel —...

Columbus, OH – A new round reporting forms for 2017 and part of 2018 obtained by Operation Rescue show that complications in Ohio to medication abortions done using the drug RU486, also known as mifepristone or Mifeprex, have skyrocketed over the past two years. The rise in complications is tied to a dramatic increase in the use of medication abortions in that state. While overall abortions have steadily decreased since 1997, the use of mifepristone in conjunction with misoprostol to cause abortions has slowly increased until 2016 – the most recent year for which there are statistics – when medication...

Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) sent a letter Monday, together with 73 of their colleagues to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf, expressing concern and seeking information regarding the recent loosening of regulation of the abortion-inducing drug Mifeprex or RU-486. The FDA announced a change in their guidelines for Mifeprex in March. The new guidelines reduce the dosage from 600 milligrams to 200 milligrams, decrease the number of required doctor’s visits from three to two, and allow the pill to be taken later in pregnancy, at 10 weeks of pregnancy from 7 weeks. “We...

Worried about a bacterial infection that led to the deaths of at least five women who took the abortion pill RU-486, scientists from the nation's leading public health agencies will gather in Atlanta today for the first meeting in 10 years on the drug's safety. Scientists from the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health will consider whether the means of administering abortion drugs make pregnant women more susceptible to the bacterium Clostridium sordellii. They will also discuss whether the deaths may signal the emergence of a new and more...

Abortion rights advocates once hoped that RU-486 would prove at least as safe as surgical abortions and largely end the abortion wars by making access widely available and very private. But in the wake of reports in March that two more women had died after taking abortion pills, some doctors say they are increasingly uneasy about prescribing them. "None of these women should be dying; it's shocking," said Dr. Peter Bours, an abortion provider in Portland, Ore., who is rethinking whether to offer pill-based, or medical, abortions. Dr. Warren Hern, a provider in Denver, said the latest reports demonstrated that...

See for example this thread first. Planned Parenthood said that they will Change their use of the Mifeprex pill And if you ask, "Why?" Well, womyn might die (That's not quite who they meant to kill !)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 — The federal government has called an unusual scientific conference to look into two related bacterial infections, one that killed four California women who took an abortion pill and the other that has caused outbreaks of diarrhea and colitis in hospitals and nursing homes across the nation. Fifteen to 20 scientists who have studied the two bacteria have been asked to present their research at the conference, scheduled for May 11, an official at the Food and Drug Administration said Friday. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the abortion pill, Mifeprex or RU-486, is...

Source: Annals of Pharmacotherapy 12/27/05 First Analysis Of FDA's Mifepristone Adverse Event Reports The abortion drug mifepristone (Mifeprex,TM RU-486), initially touted as a more convenient alternative to surgical abortion, has been linked to serious adverse reactions, including several deaths in otherwise healthy women. In "Analysis of Severe Adverse Events Related to the Use of Mifepristone as an Abortifacient," researchers Margaret M Gary MD and Donna J Harrison MD provide an in-depth study of mifepristone adverse event data gathered through the FDA's Adverse Event Reporting System. Their research is available now at The Annals of Pharmacotherapy Online (www.theannals.com) and will appear...

Federal drug regulators have discovered that all four women in this country who died after taking an abortion pill suffered from a rare and highly lethal bacterial infection, a finding that is leading to new scrutiny of the drug's safety. Since all four deaths occurred in California, an unusual clustering, the Food and Drug Administration quietly tested to see if abortion pills distributed in California were somehow contaminated. They were not. Stumped, officials from the F.D.A. and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have decided to convene a scientific meeting early next year to discuss this medical mystery,...

FDA Issues Health Advisory for Mifepristone Citing Four Sepsis-Related Deaths Among Users; Drug Labeling To Be Updated 21 Jul 2005 FDA on Tuesday issued a... public health advisory warning physicians to watch for any signs of sepsis or other infection among women who have taken Danco Laboratories' Mifeprex -- known generically as mifepristone -- which when taken with misoprostol can cause a medical abortion, the AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports. The agency is investigating four sepsis-related deaths among women who took the drug, including two cases reported to FDA in April and June (Neergaard, AP/Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 7/20). Physicians have identified the bacterium...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Five women who took the abortion pill RU-486 have died from bacterial infections since its U.S. introduction nearly five years ago, the manufacturer reported on Monday. "No causal relationship between these events" has been established with the drug, also known as Mifeprex or mifepristone, maker Danco Laboratories LLC said. "Childbirth, menstruation and abortion, whether spontaneous, surgical or medical, all create conditions that can result in serious and sometimes fatal infection, and there is no evidence that Mifeprex and misoprostol present a special risk of infection," the company said in a statement. Misoprostol is a drug that women...

The family of a young woman whose September 2003 death was linked to the abortion pill are now suing the manufacturer of the drug and Planned Parenthood, according to Austin Ruse of the Culture of Life Foundation. Shortly after her eighteenth birthday Holly Patterson took Mifeprex (RU-486. She was rushed to the hospital for terrible pain, heavy bleeding, and cramps. Three days later, she returned to the hospital where she subsequently died. The autopsy revealed that her death was "due to endomyometritis (inflammation)" caused by "therapeutic, drug-induced abortion." According to Ruse, the FDA has received 676 reports of problems in...

Livermore, CA (LifeNews.com) -- The parents of California teenager Holly Patterson, who died last year after complications from the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug, are suing the maker of the abortion pill. The Pattersons filed wrongful death and product liability lawsuits against New York-based Danco Laboratories. In September 2003, Holly Patterson received the RU 486 abortion drug, also known as Mifeprex or mifepristone, from a Planned Parenthood abortion facility near San Francisco. She reported severe pain and bleeding afterwards and died days later at a local hospital. In October 2003, the Alameda County Coroner's office determined that Patterson died as...

The death of a young person produces a terrible void. Who can be indifferent...

Detroit, MI (LifeNews.com) -- Fifteen year-old Tamia Russell of Detroit died as a result of a second-trimester abortion earlier this year. It is suspected that the abortion drug RU-486 caused the fatal infection that claimed her life. Steven Brown of the Wayne County Medical Examiner's Office told LifeNews.com that the cause of death for Russell was listed as, "Uterine infarction with sepsis, due to status post second trimester abortion." Dr. Leigh Hlavaty, the medical examiner, listed the manner of death as "normal," as opposed to homicidal, suicidal, or accidental, due to the natural cause of death, the obstruction of her...

Stockholm, Sweden (LifeNews.com) -- Another teenager has died as a result of taking the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug, this time in Sweden. Just months after California teenager Holly Patterson died following taking the abortion pill, an 18 year-old Swedish girl has bled to death after receiving the drug at a local hospital. The girl, from western Sweden, was seven weeks pregnant at the time, and was given the abortion drug, which is called Mifegyne in the Scandinavian country. Unlike in the case of Holly Patterson, the Swedish girl was kept at the facility for eight hours for observation to...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The parents of Holly Peterson, who died after using a checmical abortion drug she obtained from Planned Parenthood, say they believe the number of women who have died after using the abortion pill is "widely underreported." The statement comes after a state health agency found that the abortion business and a medical center that treated Holly before her death improperly reported Holly's abortion death to authorities. "We are appalled by the lack of reporting and accountability of Planned Parenthood and ValleyCare Medical Center to report Holly's death to the State of California DHS," Monty Patterson and...