FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Matt Hadro
matt.hadro@pinkston.co
DALLAS, TEXAS, February 10, 2023 – Human Coalition on Friday filed an amicus curiae(friend of the court) brief in federal court for the case Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Human Coalition supports the lawsuit filed by Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of four national medical organizations and doctors, challenging the FDA’s approval of the chemical abortion pill regimen.
Chelsey Youman, National Director of Public Policy for Human Coalition, stated:
“This brief documents what everyone should know about the abortion pill – it inflicts significant physical and psychological tolls on women in addition to taking an innocent life in the womb. Abortion-seeking women and girls are misled about medication abortion, and this lack of informed consent only leads to increased complications. For a procedure with life-threatening consequences, the FDA shows callous disregard for women by removing safeguards like in-person dispensing requirements for the abortion
pill. Women and girls deserve better than this absence of information at best and blatant misinformation at worst.”
“Human Coalition exists to serve and care for women in their darkest hour. We see their increasing complications firsthand. We know the FDA endangers them each day. Their real experiences and traumas deserve to be considered. Our brief elevates their voices.”
Litigants request that the FDA withdraw its approval of mifepristone and misoprostol as chemical abortion drugs, and to withdraw its subsequent actions to deregulate these chemical abortion drugs. Human Coalition’s brief explains the significant physical harm that chemical abortion has caused and will continue to cause women; the psychological harm that abortion causes women; and how unfettered access to the abortion pill will lead to an increase in coerced abortions and crimes against pregnant women and girls.
The brief notes that the FDA recorded 28 deaths caused by mifepristone since its approval. Deaths can be caused by complications arising from the pill, such as hemorrhaging or sepsis from fetal tissue left inside the mother or a ruptured ectopic (tubal) pregnancy.
To shed light on the FDA’s utter failure to maintain basic safety protocols for women, the brief highlights its incomplete reporting requirements and data. Even though the FDA does not require adverse events be reported, its numbers indicate women underwent
1,048 hospitalizations, 604 blood transfusions, and 414 infections (including 71 severe infections) following use of the pill, with a total of 4,213 adverse events as of June 2022. A study from Finland found that adverse events in women who had a chemical abortion
were nearly four times higher (20% vs. 5.6%) than in women who had a surgical abortion.
The brief shows that beyond the physical harm, women experience severe psychological damage from the abortion pill regimine. Research by AAPLOG revealed that “women face an 81% increase in the risk of mental health disorders after receiving an abortion. These women also face a 34% increased risk of anxiety, 37% increased risk of depression, and 155% increased risk of suicidal behavior.”
In the FDA’s damaging effort to make abortion more accessible, it eliminated the abortion pills in-person dispensing requirement. This means women and girls will not be examined for significant contraindications and can complete their abortions without any physician oversight, compounding its health risks to women. Decades of medication abortion marred women into living victims of abortion.
About Human Coalition
Human Coalition is one of the largest pro-life, pro-woman, and pro-family organizations in the country, committed to making abortion unthinkable and unnecessary. Founded in 2009, Human Coalition has grown from a simple internet outreach idea into a comprehensive care network that reaches women facing unexpected pregnancies, rescues innocent preborn children from abortion, and restores families to stability.