After approving the abortion pill in 2000, the began chipping away at its regulatory restrictions, eliminating medical safeguards such as requiring doctors to issue prescriptions in person and follow up with patients afterward. Now pro-life advocates are again accusing the agency of going too far in the wake of an explosive report about two Georgia women who died after they took the abortion drugs in 2022. “The needs to be held accountable for these reckless changes that they made that are allowing these kinds of things to happen,” said Dr.
, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Three months after the a challenge to the approval of , one of two drugs in the abortion-pill process, debate about the regimen’s risks has been reignited by the deaths of two mothers in Georgia. The women — , 41, and , 28 — died from complications after the self-administered drugs failed to expel all the fetal tissue from their aborted pregnancies, according to a two-part published last week by ProPublica.
Both needed a routine procedure known as dilation and curettage, or D&C, to remove the tissue. Doctors waited until it was too late to perform the operation on , who died during surgery. died at home after refusing to go to a hospital.
Dr. Ingrid Skop, vice president and director of medical affairs for the pro-life Charlotte Lozier Institute, said their deaths “demonstrate conclusively how dangerous medically unsupervised, ’self managed’ abort.
