Some women turn to the abortion pill, believing the lie that it is “safe.” One of them was Amber Thurman, just 28 years old when she was killed by the abortion pill.

She already had a young boy when she found out she was carrying twins. She didn’t want children to interfere with her potential nursing career, but both of her babies had heartbeats, so Georgia state law prohibited her from killing them. Thurman traveled across state lines to seek an out-of-state abortion in North Carolina to kill both babies surgically when they were 9 weeks old. But nothing went as “planned.”

After ingesting the abortion pill and having what is called an “incomplete abortion,” Thurman developed extreme sepsis from what appeared to be the remains of a child left in her uterus. Despite antibiotics and a hysterectomy, Thurman died. The pill is sent by mail via Telemed with no follow up.

She is not alone. About 6% of women suffer complications from the abortion pill that are serious enough to land them in an emergency room! That’s more than one in 20 women who experience side effects like hemorrhaging, surgical intervention, and — as in Thurman’s case — death.

These pills are four times MORE dangerous than first-trimester surgical abortions. Yet many people don’t realize that abortion kills both mothers and their children. We need to stop this mail-order murder!

Urge Congress to investigate the health risks of mifepristone, the abortion pill. Then demand they protect lives in the states where abortion is illegal by banning abortion mail-order murders.

Thurman was on her way to the abortion clinic in North Carolina when she was delayed by traffic and missed her appointment, so the staff improvised and gave her an abortion pill to end the life of her twins. Then she took the four-hour drive home.

Time after time, women like Thurman are completely unprepared for what this pill does to them. About four days after she took it:

Thurman vomited blood and passed out at home, according to 911 call logs. Her boyfriend called for an ambulance. Thurman arrived at Piedmont Henry Hospital in Stockbridge at 6:51 p.m. ... Her lower abdomen was tender, according to the summary. Her white blood cell count was critically high and her blood pressure perilously low — at one point, as Thurman got up to go to the bathroom, she fainted again and hit her head. Doctors noted a foul odor during a pelvic exam, and an ultrasound showed possible tissue in her uterus.

They tried antibiotics, IVs, and surgery, but in the end, couldn’t save her life. The reality is that had Amber not taken the abortion pill, she would be alive today.

Urge Congress to investigate this dangerous drug and then ban interstate commerce of deadly drugs that violate the lives and laws of pro-life states.

This abortion cocktail that killed Amber is so dangerous that for 20 years, the FDA required (1) that a doctor administer the death-dealing drugs in person, (2) that the drugs not be given to women who are more than 7 weeks pregnant, and (3) that an in-person physical examination occur after taking the pills to ensure that the drugs had not burst the woman’s fallopian tubes, all hemorrhaging had stopped, and the dead baby had left the mother’s womb without infection.

But the FDA waived the in-person dispensation requirements, allowing abortionists to mail the deadly drugs to women — even in pro-life states where abortion is restricted. If these requirements were still in place, Amber would be alive.

RU-486, otherwise known as mifepristone, has a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warning for serious adverse reactions that include toxicity/overdose, ruptured fallopian tubes, hemorrhage, and more. From September 2000 to February 2019, this caused Adverse Event Reports (AERs) among 3,197 women, of whom 2,506 had either life-threatening or severe complications — including 20 who died. In addition, 2,243 women who did not die of RU-486’s adverse events required surgery to save their life and future fertility.

I want to be clear, just because modern medicine is able to arrest the deadly effects of these pills and save the lives of thousands of women, doesn’t make these pills — on their own — less dangerous.

We cannot sit back and think we are going to win. Sadly, our team is facing resistance on life issues, even from within some members of the Republican Party. We are fighting to defund Planned Parenthood through budget reconciliation, restrict deadly drugs, stop the mailing of abort-inducing drugs across state lines, and so much more.

We are working to hold their feet to the fire. We need your help to flood congressional desks with demands to protect life.

If we lose this battle, children will die in the most horrific ways. Women will be harmed, and some will die. Their murderers will enrich themselves with their blood. Give your best possible gift today to impact the future of our nation.

Liberty Counsel Action is fighting this death-dealing madness. We will NEVER give up. Help today to provide the resources we need to fight and win these key battles. Please, support our ministry to defend LIFE and LIBERTY.

Mat Staver, Chairman
John Stemberger, President
Liberty Counsel Action

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Sources:

Aultman, Kathi, Christina A. Cirucci, Donna J. Harrison, Benjamin D. Beran, Michael D. Lockwood, and Sigmund Seiler. Spring 2021. “Deaths and Severe Adverse Events after the Use of Mifepristone as an Abortifacient from September 2000 to February 2019.” Issues in Law & Medicine 36 (1): 3–26. Pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33939340/.

“FACT CHECK: Did Georgia’s pro-life law kill a young mom?” Live Action, September 17, 2024. Liveaction.org/news/fact-check-did-georgias-law-kill-mom/.