Contributor: ATTWN Staff
The abortion industry’s mantra that “abortion pills are safer than Tylenol” actually has zero scientific backing, reveals the Charlotte Lozier Institute in a peer-reviewed article published in the scientific journal BioTech.
This mantra has been repeated ad nauseum by the media, abortion industry leaders, government officials, and even clinical researchers. Where did they come up with such a declaration? Where are the studies that show Tylenol is indeed safer than pills that kill an unborn human being and leave 10% of women who take it with serious and adverse side effects? The Charlotte Lozier Institute writes that, “….. examination reveals these claims to be wholly unfounded, offering deficient and disingenuous representations of safety for any of the drugs compared.”
The Abortion Pill Is Not Safe
The abortion pill is not a “safe” drug as it ends the life of an innocent unborn human being. A brand new, huge study also reveals that a much larger number of women suffer severe side effects than have ever been publicly reported.
The largest study of women who took the abortion pill reveals that 1 in 10 women suffer ‘severe adverse events’ such as sepsis, hemorrhaging, infection or another severe effect within 45 days of taking the pills, according to the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
The Ethics and Public Policy study reviewed and analyzed data from 865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions from 2017 to 2023 in an all-payer insurance claims database. They found that 10.93% of women who took the abortion pill experienced severe adverse events within 45 days of taking it. The FDA labels risk of the pills as “less than 0.5 percent” from clinical trials on the drug. This study shows the real-world data as 22 times higher than the summary figure.
The Ethics and Public Policy states that, “Danco Laboratories markets Mifeprex as ‘the safe and effective abortion pill,’ but our research shows that mifepristone abortion, as currently practiced in the U.S., is not safe and effective. The manufacturer and the FDA rely on the results of 10 clinical trials with a total of 30,966 participants, less than 0.5 percent of whom reportedly experienced serious adverse reactions.”
The Claim is Everywhere but Verified Nowhere
The Charlotte Lozier Institute states that:
The central problem with this claim [that Tylenol is safer than the abortion pill] is simultaneously a chief cause of its spread: its simplicity. A reductionist claim concerning the safety of a drug should ordinarily draw scrutiny, as it collapses a set of complex and vitally important considerations into a simple assertion or slogan. Instead, this particular claim and those like it have proliferated, aided in part by major medical organizations and abortion centers that should be providing full, informed consent to their patients on the risks attendant to any drug.
This claim has been seen everywhere – from abortion clinics to news outlets to attorneys arguing for the safety of abortion pills in courts. The Charlotte Lozier Institute says it’s impossible to compare the two drugs and therefore, the claims about their head-to-head safety are false:
It is essential to state unequivocally that there has never been a single study appropriately comparing the safety of mifepristone and acetaminophen or any of the common drugs presented in these claims, let alone a 20-year history of “clear and conclusive scientific evidence” to this end. This alone is sufficient reason to qualify such comparisons as false and/or misleading and to contest their use to influence public and individual decision-making
The paper claims that the origin of this oft-repeated phrase seems to come from a 2003 Chicago Tribune story about a teenager who died after taking the abortion pill. Dr. David Grimes, an abortion doctor and former chief of the U.S. CDC, was asked for comment: “ Against the CDC’s then-current figure of slightly less than one per 100,000 deaths in those seeking abortion, he juxtaposed an uncited two per 100,000 death rate associated with penicillin and concluded that ‘having an abortion this way is safer than that’.” The claim was then repeated in the scientific journal Contraception and took off from there.
The Abortion Pill is Not Safe
Former abortion workers at And Then There Were None have said that they were often coached to minimize the risks of the abortion pill when speaking to women. And if women called after or during the process of the chemical abortion worried about how much they were bleeding or in extensive pain, they were told to go to the Emergency Room but not tell the doctors they took the abortion pills.
The website, Little Pills That Kill, has several stories of women who took the abortion pill and were told about the side effects. These are all first hand accounts. You decide if the abortion pill is safer than Tylenol.