Human Coalition’s brief details the trauma and confusion of clients who felt misled and uninformed about mifepristone and its side effects. U.S. district court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk relied heavily on Human Coalition’s brief in his April 7 ruling that suspended the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill regimen:

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22A901/263785/20230418091220039_FDA%20and%20Danco%20v.%20AFHM_Human%20Coalition%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf
Mifepristone (Mifeprex), learn more (MedlinePlus):
https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a600042.html#precautions

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Human Coalition Files Amicus Brief at Supreme Court in Opposition to FDA’s Approval of Abortion Pill Brief tells stories of clients who suffered trauma from abortion pills
DALLAS, TEXAS, April 18, 2023 - Human Coalition on Tuesday filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in opposition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the deadly abortion pill regimen. In the case of Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Human Coalition supports national medical organizations and doctors in their legal challenge to the FDA’s expedited and illegal approval of the drug mifepristone for chemical abortions.

Human Coalition’s brief details the trauma and confusion of clients who felt misled and uninformed about mifepristone and its side effects. U.S. district court Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk relied heavily on Human Coalition’s brief in his April 7 ruling that suspended the FDA’s approval of the abortion pill regimen.

Chelsey Youman, National Director of Public Policy for Human Coalition, on Tuesday stated:

“We are resolved to speak for the millions of victims of abortion pills who cannot speak for themselves, before the highest court in the land. More than five million precious children have been killed by mifepristone since it was recklessly and illegally approved 23 years ago. This genocide must stop now.

“We are here to speak for women who were medically damaged from taking the abortion drugs, regret taking them, who were pressured into taking abortion pills, and who were misled or misinformed about the trauma they experienced. So many of these women have been gaslit by the abortion industry which promotes these deadly drugs as women’s empowerment.

“The vast majority – 76% – of our clients considering abortion would prefer to parent if their circumstances were different. We will continue to walk alongside every vulnerable woman who feels abortion is her only option, and accompany her to a place of stability where she discovers she can become the parent she always wanted to be.”

Human Coalition’s brief details the significant physical harm that chemical abortion has caused and will continue to cause women; the ways they are deceived about the drug’s risks; the risks of abusers using mifepristone as a covert tool for coerced abortions; and the psychological harm that abortion causes women.

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 regimen. 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 pill’s 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.

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