Study Claiming Abortion Pill is Safe for Women is Completely Bogus by Randall O’Bannon Ph.D for Life News
It seems like there’s a new study just about every week or so claiming that telemedical chemical abortions are “safe” and “effective.” They take some aspect of telemedical protocol – the estimation of gestational age, the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy, the side effects like pain and bleeding, the number of reported complications, etc. – and collect and publish data showing that, despite reasonable medical expectations and against all common sense, the number of “successes” is high, the number of complications is low, and the overwhelming majority of patients find the experience satisfactory.
The latest study by a few of chemical abortions biggest promoters – Ushma Upadhyay, Elizabeth Raymond, Beverly Winikoff, and others – is titled “Outcomes and Safety of History-Based Screening for Medication Abortion: A Retrospective Multicenter Cohort Study” and was published in the online version of JAMA Internal Medicine on March 21, 2022.
The study looked at data from 3,779 women having chemical abortions associated with 14 clinics in the U.S. between February 1, 2020 and January 31, 2021. Researchers in this study were specifically trying to determine whether women who were only asked to give their medical history (whether in person or over the phone or internet) to get the abortion pills fared as well as women having in person physical exams or ultrasounds as part of their screening for chemical abortion.
Not surprisingly, the abortion researchers, entrenched in the abortion industry, determined that just getting an oral medical history was sufficient. Women having these chemical abortions without physical exams or ultrasounds, they claim, found them about as “safe” and “effective” as those of women who did have those exams. This was supposed to be the case whether the women came in to pick up the pills in person or had them mailed to their homes.
But, as usual, this involves a certain sleight of hand with the data, where hundreds of women disappeared between the time of the initial interview, the dispensing of the pills, and the time when it came for researchers to tally the results.
