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What Everyone Should Know About Misoprostol-Only Abortions...
DESTROYED "All who become part of or condone
abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!"
- Jesus, June 2, 1979
AT MOMENT OF CONCEPTION "Every man, woman, and child
of the age of reason knows right from wrong, for he has been given an inborn
conscience. At the moment of his conception life is within the womb, and at the
moment of conception a life is forming, regardless of what the agents of hell
now pollute the minds of mankind with, creating murders of the young! I say unto
you, life begins at the moment of conception and all who extinguish this light
are murderers, and without repentance shall be condemned to hell!”
- Jesus, June 18, 1977
The above Messages from Our Lady were given to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, New York.
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The abortion industry has made
clear its plans to pivot to dispensing misoprostol alone for
chemical abortions if challenges to the FDA-approved abortion pill regimen
of mifepristone (200mg)/Mifeprex and misoprostol is successfully challenged.
In part one of this three part series, Live Action News
will give a short primer on misoprostol as it relates to abortion.
Key Takeaways:
Though the abortion industry plans to pivot to dispensing
misoprostol-only abortions if mifepristone is restricted by the FDA,
there are multiple concerns about using the drug alone aside from the
intentional killing of preborn children.
The drug's manufacturer never tested it for use in abortions; in
fact, its use as the second drug in the abortion pill regimen is
actually off-label. It was originally approved to reduce the risk of
stomach ulcers caused by NSAIDs.
Administered alone for the off-label use of abortion, the drug is
estimated to fail at completing the abortion around 15% of the time.
Unlike mifepristone, misoprostol has been shown to have a teratogenic
effect on the developing child, potentially leading to birth defects.
It is estimated that one in six babies may survive a misoprostol
abortion, and they have a higher likelihood of birth defects.
Misoprostol also carries a risk of uterine rupture during pregnancy.
The Details:
What Is misoprostol?
Misoprostol, a drug originally manufactured by Searle under the brand
name Cytotec, is FDA-approved to
reduce the risk of stomach ulcers caused by NSAIDs like ibuprofen (Advil,
Motrin), as noted by GoodRx.
However, it is also used off-label in
the FDA-approved abortion pill regimen alongside mifepristone (200mg). (The
two-drug regimen is required because
mifepristone alone is significantly less effective.) Misoprostol is contraindicated
for pregnancy. It is considered a prostaglandin
analog, which is known to induce labor. It causes the cervix to soften
and dilate, and to stimulate powerful contractions of the uterine muscle
(myometrium). This uterine activity expels the embryo or fetus and pregnancy
tissue.
Author Carrie Baker wrote that
"The use of prostaglandins for inducing abortion was discovered in the 1960s
by Dr.
Marc Bydgeman at the Karolinska
Institutet in the Netherlands."
Misoprostol was first
registered in Brazil in
1986 and was sold in
pharmacies and drug stores without a prescription. It was later approved in
the United States by the FDA in December of 1988. In 1985, Monsanto purchased G.D.
Searle & Company as “a way for Monsanto to bring to market the drugs it is
developing in its biotechnology laboratories,” according to a report by
the New York Times. As Live Action detailed in
its abortion pill report:
Searle warns the Misoprostol is not indicated for
pregnancy
Within a few months, the American College of Obstetricians and
Gynecologists (ACOG) a pro-abortion
organization, responded with a citizens
petition requesting that the FDA Commissioner “take administrative
action to require the withdrawal” of Searle’s letter and to “rescind any
contraindications for use of misoprostol in pregnancy” on the drug’s
label to “conform with the agency’s approval of the
mifepristone-misoprostol combination on September 28, 2000….”
Which is exactly what the FDA did.
In 2000,
misoprostol was approved by
the FDA to
be used in the abortion pill regimen, but it is not the
abortion pill (mifeprex/mifepristone 200mg)...
Consequently, misoprostol is not subject to the REMS safety system;
some irresponsible actors in the abortion industry may recommend it as a one-drug
regimen for abortion, even though the FDA has never approved this
single-drug usage.
In 1988, New York Times (NYT) spoke to
Searle spokeswoman Kay Bruno:
To test the drug's hazards in pregnancy, Ms. Bruno said Searle gave
Cytotec to a small group of women in their first trimester of pregnancy
who planned on having abortions. The tests, conducted in West Germany in
the early 1980's, showed that the drug caused ''uterine expulsion and
bleeding,'' Ms. Bruno said.
But she said the study was
too small to indicate the likelihood that the drug would cause an
abortion. In addition, she said, the drug was not tested at different
doses, so there is no information on the dose required for an abortion.
In 2000, Searle spokesperson Claudia Kovitz told NYT
that Searle "did not test misoprostol for abortions and will not be
promoting its use in abortions. Kovitz pointed out, in fact, the
drug carries a black boxed warning saying it is not to be used in
pregnancy" (emphases added).
GenBioPro (GBP), approved
in 2019 by the Trump administration as the first generic abortion pill
maker, also manufacturers a generic
misoprostol, 200 mcg. The drug has a strict storage temperature
requirement, raising
concern over stability of the drug when shipped in extreme temperatures
by mail.
National Abortion Federation on misoprostol-only
"Where legally available and accessible, mifepristone and misoprostol
should be used," recommends the National Abortion Federation (NAF) in its 2026
Clinical Guide under "Medication Abortion Before 14 Weeks LMP."
For the two-drug regimen, NAF recommends:
An additional dose of misoprostol 800mcg... for patients over 63
days LMP.
More than two doses of misoprostol may be provided for patients
as gestational duration increases or if a patient is remote from care.
NAF only recommends misoprostol-only "[w]here mifepristone is
either not legally available or inaccessible," but advises that "The
efficacy of these regimens for pregnancy of unknown location and pregnancies
from 12-14 weeks LMP is not well studied. People who use these regimens need
to understand their efficacy, side effects, and the potential exposure to
known teratogens if the pregnancy continues."
NAF adds:
"Patients must be offered a follow-up assessment to confirm absence
of ongoing pregnancy. Confirmation can be established by
ultrasonography, hCG testing, physical exam, or self-assessment."
"Mifepristone increases the efficacy and decreases the total time and
doses needed for misoprostol to cause pregnancy expulsion," NAF claims of
later chemical abortions.
Efficacy of misoprostol
Planned Parenthood's website claims
a misoprostol-only abortion is "safe [and] effective," yet cites zero
studies to show this.
The abortion corporation then claimed the one-drug regimen works 85-95%
of the time, indicating it would fail from 5-15% of the time.
Using the 732,000 estimated abortion pill abortions
nationally, this could
translate to between 36.6K to 109.8K women
annually having an incomplete abortion.
Planned Parenthood claims misoprostol "can be used up to 12 weeks from
the first day of your last period," suggesting use later in pregnancy may be
problematic.
Under the telehealth mail-order system, rarely are women examined to
verify pregnancy.
validate gestational age.
rule out potentially deadly ectopic pregnancies, which cannot be
treated using mifepristone or misoprostol.
Dr. Ingrid Skop, a pro-life OBGYN with ties to the Charlotte Lozier
Institute (CLI), has expressed concerns.
"Systematic reviews document between 15-22%
of early misoprostol-only abortions fail to expel all the pregnancy tissue,
necessitating surgical completion, often in emergencies," Skop told Live
Action News.
Dr. Skop published
research on misoprostol at CLI, citing studies addressing misoprostol
failures:
A 2010 study documented that misoprostol alone led to a 23.8%
failure rate requiring surgery...The embryo or fetus continued to
survive in 16.6% of the pregnancies. In contrast, there were 3.5%
failures and 1.5% continuing pregnancies in the mifepristone and
misoprostol comparison group.
Likewise, a 2013 study demonstrated 38.8% failures when
misoprostol was used vaginally and 29.8% when used sublingually (under
the tongue).
Similarly, a 2000 randomized trial documented that 35% of women
using unmoistened vaginal misoprostol had failures requiring surgery.
A 2019 systematic review...found 22% required surgical completion
and 6.8% had ongoing living pregnancies...
A 2023 updated systematic review by the same authors...documented
only slightly improved data, with treatment failures in 15% and ongoing
pregnancies in 6% of the over 9,000 women for whom this outcome was
reported.
Other concerns:
Birth defects
"There is no evidence that mifepristone exposure
has a teratogenic effect on an ongoing pregnancy," wrote NAF. But this isn't the
case for misoprostol.
"Misoprostol exposure early in pregnancy doubles
the risk of causing major fetal malformations in a continuing
pregnancy, from approximately 2% in cases with no exposure to 4% in cases of
misoprostol exposure," NAF stated.
"For hospital use only if misoprostol were to be used for cervical
ripening, induction of labor, or for the treatment of serious post-partum
hemorrhage, which are outside of the approved indication," Daily
Med states, adding under the headline SPECIAL NOTE FOR WOMEN:
"Misoprostol Tablets may cause birth defects, abortion (sometimes
incomplete), premature labor or rupture of the uterus if given to pregnant
women."
Misoprostol is known to produce birth defects... Continuing living
pregnancies occur 6-16%of
the time when these drugs are taken, so if the drug exposure occurs
during the critical period in the first trimester when the baby’s organs
are forming, and if a woman subsequently gives birth, there is potential
the child will suffer from devastating congenital anomalies.
Live birth potential
Dr. Skop claimed that "Nearly one in six babies continued
to live, but misoprostol exposure places these surviving children at
risk for potentially severe birth defects."
She added:
Misoprostol is commonly used to induce labor, so if it is used later
in pregnancy in attempts to cause an abortion, living babies may deliver
prematurely, potentially dying if medical care is not sought at that
time. In women with one or more prior c-sections, the strong
contractions induced by misoprostol can even cause uterine rupture, a
potentially fatal complication for a mother.
Misoprostol tablets may cause the uterus to tear (uterine rupture)
during pregnancy. The risk of uterine rupture increases as your
pregnancy advances and if you have had surgery on the uterus, such as a
Cesarean delivery. Rupture (tearing) of the uterus can result in severe
bleeding, hysterectomy, and/or maternal or fetal death.
Live Action News previously
documented the death of a 16-year-old girl in Papua New Guinea (PNG)
who died after purchasing misoprostol on the street, later taking it to
abort her pregnancy.
The Bottom Line:
"These frequent and devastating complications demonstrate this regimen is
'unsafe and ineffective,' especially when used without medical oversight, as
abortion advocates are increasingly recommending," Dr. Skop told Live Action
News.
For these reasons and more, any promotion of, or failure to warn
against, misoprostol only abortions should be recognized as callous
attempts to prioritize ending unborn life over the health and safety of
women.
These actions are unacceptable when performed by those who profess to
care for women.
"The judgment of your God is
not akin to the judgment of man. The Eternal Father will only judge by the
heart. Your rank, your accumulation of worldly goods does not set you up before
another. Many have sold their souls within the holy House of God. Better that
you strip yourself and remove all worldly interests now while you have the time
to make amends to your God, for many mitres will fall into hell."- St. Thomas Aquinas, August 21, 1972
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