Abortion pills pose a very real danger to the very women the pro-death lobby claim they help. A new investigation into how abortion pills are used in the United States adds to the growing body of evidence that the abortion lobby’s favored method of preserving “access” is dangerous to the very women they claim to help.
According to the FDA, since 2000, approximately 7.5 million women have taken the abortion pill to end the life of the child in their womb in the United States. The FDA identified thirty-six deaths of women associated with the abortion pill. The FDA caveats this by stating, ‘The adverse events cannot with certainty be causally attributed to mifepristone…’
But campaign group Live Action detail two examples of young women who died shortly after receiving abortion pills, Holly Patterson and Alyona Dixon, as well as two who suffered severe adverse reactions, Shanyce (septic shock and an infection requiring a partial hysterectomy) and Leslie Wolbert (severe pain and bleeding followed by the psychological trauma of delivering and flushing her baby).
In 2017, the United States saw the end of a long-term decline in abortions, with numbers beginning to tick upward once again each year, By 2020, abortions had increased nearly 8% from 2017. In February of 2025, Guttmacher Institute’s estimated abortion data analysis revealed a whopping 648,500 abortion pills sold in 2023 alone, which translates to an abortion pill count of 54,042 monthly, 1,777 daily, 74 hourly, and one abortion by pill every 49 seconds in 2023.
A study from September 2025 quoted authors affiliated with the Guttmacher Institute asserting that telehealth abortion ‘has contributed to the overall increase in abortions in the US. Based on a conservative estimate of 63%, it is projected that more than 664,000 abortion pills were utilized in 2024.”
Phone calls to Planned Parenthood locations inquiring about abortion pills reveal that no meaningful review occurs before the abortion giant agrees to mail out abortion pills; the age of an unborn baby is not checked, medical contraindications are not screened out, counselling is not done beforehand, follow-ups are not performed, and pills will even be mailed to alternate addresses to avoid parents discovering them.
“By failing to require any safety measures, Planned Parenthood (and other abortion pill vendors) functions as a drug dispensary instead of as a medical provider for patients,” Live Action says. “This process is putting women at increased risk should they experience any abortion pill-related complications, including hemorrhage, incomplete abortion, or life-threatening infection.”