Planned Parenthood Killed Women By Misusing the Abortion Pill, Now FDA Says That’s Okay

National   |   Steven Ertelt   |   Mar 30, 2016   |   2:08PM   |   Washington, DC

The Planned Parenthood abortion corporation has long ignored FDA rules and subjected women to dangerous abortions by giving them the abortion drug outside the guidelines the FDA had put in place.

The abortion drug is responsible for the deaths of dozens of women worldwide, including several in the United States alone, and it has injured at least 1,100 women in the United States alone as of 2006 figures from the Food and Drug Administration. But that hasn’t stopped the agency from deciding today to change the rules and guidelines the abortion industry once had to follow to protect women’s health.


Because of the high failure rate and the risks involved with RU-486 in later pregnancies, the FDA limited approval for use only in the first 49 days from the start of a woman’s last menstrual period. Planned Parenthood, by its own admission, ignores this limitation.

Now, the Food and Drug Administration announced on Wednesday, that it had given into to Planned Parenthood’s demands and altered the approved use of Mifeprex, (also known as Mifepristone or RU486), to come in line with off-label protocols used by Planned Parenthood and other abortion businesses. The FDA has announced that it is extending the allowed time period for use of the abortion drug to 70 days.


A spokesman for a leading pro-life group says this FDA change will cause more abortions with the abortion drugs and more failures that kill or injure women.

“The abortion pill is a huge cash cow for the Abortion Cartel, but the process of abortion using the abortion pill cocktail of two drugs, Mifeprex and Cytotec, is long, painful, bloody, and unpredictable for women and deadly for pre-born children,” Troy Newman of Operation Rescue told

“Extending the upper recommended gestational limit from 49 to 70 days only ensures that the risk of incomplete abortion will be multiplied, as will the number of women visiting emergency rooms around the country suffering from partial or failed abortions,” he said. “Relaxing the usage protocols allows abortion businesses to step up their aggressive marketing of the drug to vulnerable pregnant women and plays into Planned Parenthood’s goal of selling the abortion drug at every one of their outlets, whether their facilities are equipped to cope with known abortion pill complications or not. This creates additional risks to women for the sake of Planned Parenthood’s increased profits.”

“Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri expanded sales of the abortion pill regimen to their Wichita office earlier this month, which is ill-equipped to treat incomplete abortions or other complications. Licensed physicians who will dispense the abortion drugs hold no local hospital privileges, leaving women to fend for themselves when expected complications arise,’ Newman continued.

“The FDA should be more about protecting the public from exploitative and predatory uses of drugs rather than pandering to Planned Parenthood and the rest of the Abortion Cartel,” he concluded.









On the unsafe effects of RU 486 for women:


Looking at specific cases of the abortion drug hurting women:










What is perhaps even more disturbing than the lack of essential facts in what is reported to the FDA about chemical abortions—precluding accurate, or even any, analysis—is what is not being reported to the FDA about the dangerous drug regimen.

The limitation of the AER system was detailed by Michael F. Mangano, Principal Deputy Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services, in his testimony before the U.S. Senate committee,

Adverse Event Reporting systems typically detect only a small proportion of events that actually occur. They are passive systems that depend on someone linking an adverse event with the use of a product, then reporting the event … Adverse Event Reports in and of themselves typically cannot generate conclusive evidence about the safety of a product or ingredient. Rather the system generates signals that FDA must assess to confirm if, in fact, a public health problem exists… With limited information to draw upon to generate signals, it is not surprising that FDA rarely reaches the point of knowing whether a safety action is warranted to protect consumers.[vi]

Adding to the uncomfortable fact that the FDA reports capture “only a small proportion of events that actually occur,” is that abortion providers are openly flouting the FDA protocol and state laws designed to protect women against these dangers.

Planned Parenthood violates the FDA protocol in multiple ways, while Planned Parenthood’s own studies acknowledge that its off-label use of chemical abortions has come at the cost of women’s lives and “higher-than-expected” consequences to their health.

According to a 2009 Planned Parenthood study, only after women suffered serious infections and died did Planned Parenthood stop the vaginal use of misoprostol, an off-label practice never approved by the FDA.

Prompted by the deaths that occurred after medical abortion and internal data that show a higher-than-expected rate of serious infection, [Planned Parenthood Federation of America] changed its medical abortion protocol at the end of March 2006.[vii]

Jeanne Monahan, formerly of the Family Research Council and now with March for Life, previously said the danger associated with the RU 486 abortion drug are abortion drug is not limited to the United States.


