The Left lies about Amber Thurman’s death on a daily basis because abortion supporters want to create a screen to obscure serious inquiry into the dangers of chemical abortion, not only to the unborn but to the mother.
There is something most don’t realize: any claim about abortion and its safety simply cannot be verified.
States are not required to submit data about abortion use and consequences to the CDC, and what data are submitted are collected at and provided by the abortion facility — so you can imagine how reliable the data are.
When a woman is transported to the hospital (as happens far more than the public suspects), the ER is not required to report the reason for death or injury or trace it back to the clinic. You can read about this subject here, on the Guttmacher Institute site.
The Guttmacher Institute supplies information to the public about abortion; it was founded by Planned Parenthood and is funded by the Planned Parenthood Foundation of America. Everyone, including the pro-life movement, depends on their statistics — because there is no alternative and uniquely, no law requiring disinterested oversight of this medical procedure.
Abortion facilities claim their services are safe, and now the manufacturer and the FDA claim medical abortion, also known as chemical abortion, RU-486, mail-order abortion, and mifepristone/misoprostol, to be safe.
Whenever the topic of abortion comes up, the Left is sure to tell you that because of post-Dobbs legislation in some states, women are dying from lack of treatment of reproductive issues.
In particular, they cannot stop lying about what killed Amber Thurman. They claim she was killed because post-Dobbs Georgia’s restrictive laws made it so she couldn’t seek help after the chemical abortion of her twin babies.
This is an obvious lie, as has been shown over and over. The law didn’t and wouldn’t have led to her death, because it doesn’t restrict the help she needed. She didn’t get it because the hospital has a bad reputation and seems to have been incredibly negligent (and her family is suing them, suggesting they and their lawyers have a reasonable expectation, under the current law, for recourse).
The abortion pill works using mifepristone and/or misoprostol and sometimes methotrexate. These chemicals come with a “black box” warning — words in a black box that inform the user of severe consequences of their use.
Mifepristone is labeled with one of these “black boxes,” which are located right at the top of the patient information pamphlet. The January 2023 PIP by GenBioPro, available on the NLM Website, also includes a long list of side effects under Section 5, “Warnings and Precautions” and Sections 6, “Adverse Reactions,” including infection and sepsis (such as fatal septic shock), prolonged heavy bleeding (sometimes requiring a transfusion), missed ectopic pregnancy, anemia, immune system disorders, cardiac and vascular disorders, nausea, weakness, fever/chills, vomiting, headache, diarrhea, dizziness and even uterine rupture.
The April 2022 misoprostol PIP also features a “black box” which warns of the possibility of uterine rupture and birth defects if the medical abortion procedure fails. The list of side effects for misoprostol includes many of the same ones listed for mifepristone.
At first, this method was restricted to hospital administration and a two-week follow-up visit with the doctor to be sure all tissue had been expelled, lest the woman suffer sepsis and death. The risk is just that high. The chemicals also don’t terminate an ectopic pregnancy, so that ought to be checked at that point. After allowing it to be prescribed for home use, in 2021 the FDA dropped the requirement for the visit.
The narrative about Thurman is that she didn’t wait after being given the abortion pill at the clinic she visited. But the product works over the course of several days. Given the way clinics work and the low information women receive, she was probably sent home. In any case, she was left to deliver her twins on her own (that’s how it works!).
This Wall Street Journal article by Nicholas Tomaino goes over the reasons the story (as retailed by Tim Walz, Kamala Harris, and every pro-abortion activist or commentator in America) is a lie.
What pro-lifers have not quite internalized is that more is required than a defensive posture (“you are lying about Amber Thurman’s death”).
The lies are intended to prevent us from going on the offense and exposing the vast amounts of harm and mayhem blithely thrust on the indoctrinated women of our nation.
They know they are lying. In our focus on refuting these lies over and over, will we allow the noise to drown out the larger concern, the high probability mail-order abortion will cause great suffering?
We already know (thanks in large part to the work of David Daleiden) of the ways surgical abortion exploits women, especially minors. Imagine this exploitation put into pill form.
Coerced and forced abortions are already happening. And every time safety protocols are degraded, it becomes easier for an unsupportive partner, abuser, or trafficker to harm women, girls, and unborn children. [Go to the article for a plethora of recorded examples if your imagination falters.]
Mail-order abortion is the business model for the abortion industry’s future, and looks to be incredibly profitable. It would be tragic if we allowed “abortion magical thinking” — the premise of “just order this one weird pill! all your problems wiped away in the comfort of your home!” — to prevent us from exposing and emphasizing the extreme harm and trauma inflicted on women when they, perhaps unknowingly, swallow toxic chemicals in order to kill the unborn child.
Thanks for reading Happy Despite Them! This post is public — please share it.
The Rape of Lucretia — Tarquinius Rapes Lucretia, from Scenes from Roman History Georg Pencz
Happy Despite Them is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.
Get full access to Happy Despite Them at leilamarielawler.substack.com/subscribe
