Abortion pills 22 times more dangerous than billed on warning label, study finds
Washington Times
Valerie Richardson
A largest-of-its-kind study found that more than 10% of women who terminate their pregnancies with abortion pills experience serious health problems, even though the drug’s warning label puts the figure at less than 0.5%.
The analysis of insurance data from 865,727 prescriptions of mifepristone from 2017 to 2023 showed that within 45 days, 10.93% of women were treated for conditions including sepsis, hemorrhaging and infection, while 2.84% ended up undergoing a surgical abortion.
“The real-world rate of serious adverse events following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of ‘less than 0.5 percent’ in clinical trials reported on the drug label,” said the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a conservative think tank, which released the research Monday.