Posted on May 7,
2023
Butchery By Mail
Sacrificing women as a tactic
by
Daniel
Clark
Perhaps the most effective rhetorical device for the
pro-abortion movement has been the "back-alley butchers" that would kill women
in a society where abortion was illegal.
The object that is used to symbolize this butchery is a coat hanger, supposedly
a common instrument with which illegal abortions were performed.
If
there has ever been even a single coat hanger abortion attempted, that case
would be wildly unrepresentative. For
the most part, illegal abortions before Roe v. Wade were done by doctors,
who used abortion to supplement the income from their legitimate
practices. After that 1973 ruling, they
did the same thing, only legally. The
pre-Roe back-alley butchers and the post-Roe esteemed women's
health care professionals were largely the same group of people. The assertion that the legalization of
abortion made it any safer is sophistry.
Since the Dobbs ruling overturned Roe,
twelve states have passed strict prohibitions on abortion, thus calling the
abortion advocates' bluff. As time
passes, it will become clear that their scaremongering has not been borne
out. Their "I'm rubber, you're glue"
argument, that they are the ones defending innocent human lives, while abortion
opponents are the real killers, will show itself to be the childish nonsense it
has always been.
Unless they deliberately create the situation they've warned
about, that is. That's where the drug
combination of mifepristone and misoprostol comes in. Abortionists claim these drugs are safer than
Tylenol, but the data tell a different story.
A study of abortions induced by chemical means, based on Medicaid claims
data, found that 28.7 percent of those women who took the drugs visited an
emergency room within the following 30 days.
No wonder the drugs that used to be known as RU-486 have been rebranded. Instead of printing those six characters,
news stories now windily refer to "mifepristone, when taken in conjunction with
another drug called misoprostol for the purpose of terminating a
pregnancy." This would not be the case had
"RU-486" not developed negative connotations.
Even under the original Food and Drug Adminstration guidance from the year 2000, abortions
induced by RU-486 were never safe for women.
President Bill Clinton had seen to it that these drugs would not be
adequately tested, by putting them on a fast-track approval process similar to
the one that was used for COVID vaccines.
He justified this by officially mischaracterizing pregnancy as a
life-threatening illness.
The modest precautions the FDA had outlined have now
been lifted. Whereas the administration
of RU-486 used to require three in-person office visits, the drugs are now
being mailed out with total indifference to the potential hazards. For example, the FDA originally approved them
for use from 4-7 weeks gestation, but later expanded that time frame to 4-10
weeks. Nobody is policing this now. Pregnant women can't find out how far along
they are by telemedicine, and yet many of them are receiving the pills after only
a remote diagnosis, if any at all.
The
FDA could hardly have been more emphatic that these drugs must not be
administered in the case of an ectopic pregnancy, in which the baby has
implanted in a fallopian tube, or someplace else outside of the womb. These are the rare and tragic circumstances
in which the growth of the baby, which itself stands no chance of survival, threatens
the life of the mother. An ectopic
pregnancy can only be diagnosed through an in-person examination. A Zoom call is totally insufficient, and the
abortionists know it.
The mass distribution of these abortion pills by mail
is going to kill women. Of that much,
there is absolute certainty. Equally
certain is that the primary purpose of this campaign is to break the law in
states in which most abortions are illegal.
Because both of those outcomes are being created deliberately, one can only
conclude that there must be a reason. Once
the atrocious results are realized, the abortionists could blame them on
anti-abortion laws, instead of on their own behavior. Mifepristone and misoprostol would become the
new back-alley butchers, responsibility for whose actions would be deflected by
the claim that the law made them do it.
Abortionists and their political supporters have made
a conscious decision that they know will kill women. Either they consider this to be an acceptable
amount of collateral damage, or they are executing the most cynical political
tactic ever devised. In either case, we
can see that anyone who could kill a tiny baby girl in the womb has little
compunction about also killing a grown woman.
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