The FDA does not think that women who take abortion pills deserve safe health care. I Do.

A pro-life candidate at the US Supreme Court on March 26, 2024. (Photo: Drew Angerer/AFP via Getty Images)

As a woman who carried the scars of a chemical abortion alone with no one by my side, I am obviously disappointed that the Food and Drug Administration was able to avoid responsibility this month. before the United States Supreme Court because of the reckless disregard for women’s lives. But I’m so glad to know it’s not over yet.

Three states are ready to hold the FDA accountable—and rightly so, because the FDA’s reckless withdrawal of its first protections for women using chemical abortion drugs has harmed women many.

For now, the FDA will continue to put the abortion drug industry’s profits at the expense of women’s well-being, even though its abortion drug label says that about 1 in 25 women who use it will end up in the emergency room. It will continue to refuse to ensure that we receive continuous, individualized care from a doctor while taking abortion drugs, even though data cited by the FDA shows that hospitals are increasing by 300% without personal visit.

But women are more important than political agendas or drug makers’ money. Women deserve excellent health care, and we deserve the personal attention of a doctor when we take dangerous drugs.

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The FDA should be required to at least reimburse primary care physicians to ensure that women do not have an ectopic pregnancy, heavy bleeding, or other life-threatening conditions when taking oral contraceptives. chemical.

Unfortunately, based on a legal technicality, the Supreme Court refused to deal with a lawsuit that sought to hold the FDA accountable for neglecting women’s health. But that may change in the future.

Regardless of one’s views on abortion, women’s safety, health and well-being. Everyone should agree that our daughters, mothers and sisters should not be left to take these dangerous drugs alone on the cold bathroom floor or in the bedroom. to sleep. Women should come together to call out the hypocrisy of the FDA’s claim that it cares about women and wants it to do better.

Those of us who underwent chemical abortions alone, bled to death, and held our tiny, lifeless babies without knowing what to do. We know this with our own eyes.

Although the FDA escaped liability in FDA v. In the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, a case in which Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represented four doctors and four medical associations seeking protection for circumcised women, we know that the organization’s negligent actions cannot be ignored. forever. As women in this country we all need to come together to stand up for other women, because women’s health issues.

And no federal agency is above the law. If any other institution showed such indifference to our health and well-being in any situation other than abortion, there would be a huge uproar. But because people are scared of this situation, women are left to suffer as drug companies continue to reap financial benefits, all in the name of celebrating and promoting women’s health.

Enough.

As a woman who has suffered severe physical and emotional pain from taking chemical drugs to abort an abortion on my own without seeing a doctor to check me for heavy bleeding or life-threatening illnesses, I don’t want another woman to suffer from the current policies of the FDA.

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Abortion drugs, an abortion clinic worker assured me a few years ago, were a «safe, easy way» to end the life of my boyfriend’s unborn child. want me to be with him. Take only two pills, and don’t call them in the morning. I couldn’t hear anything, they promised.

In fact, I experienced blinding pain, bled profusely, and found myself standing on my bathroom vanity, holding the amniotic sac, staring into my baby’s fingers and eyes. the unborn. Then I flushed it down the toilet, and I felt a completely different pain—even in my memory.

The pain and bleeding continued for more than a month, but no doctor from the clinic ever called me or arranged a follow-up visit. And no one warned me about the lifelong effects of post-traumatic stress.

So, although I was surprised to hear the Supreme Court justices tell me that emergency room doctors – who have seen case after case like mine – have no right to question the way the FDA My government is doing something about it, thanks to Missouri, Kansas, and Idaho standing in the gap to continue to advocate for women’s health and the need for the FDA to do its job.

But I pray that these countries are not the only ones. I hope that women from many political and ideological backgrounds will come together to ensure that the FDA works effectively and puts our health first. We should expect the FDA to answer why it is okay to remove commonsense safety standards and leave us alone to perform abortions at home, and why it no longer thinks that we are important to make sure that the doctors give us care.

Maybe we didn’t feel we had a voice when we trusted the clinics that told us the lie that this medicine would be easy and almost painless. But we have a voice now. And we should use it.

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