Chemical Coat Hangers

The political Left’s obsession with managing the death of others ought to be a disqualification for anything short of a straitjacket. Luckily for them, entire industries exist to launder money into their campaigns to keep them out of prison and in public office. Perches from which they interrupt with enthusiasm the right to life, liberty, and happiness.

Somehow, perhaps through guile, deception, or smooth-talking last-call, let’s go to your place, baby barroom banter, the depopulationist party successfully convinced women they cared about them. Most of the evidence suggests the contrary.

Sixty years after the start of the sexual revolution, married, monogamous women of faith are the most sexually active.

Children raised by two parents turn out better, while being a single mom in the real world (as opposed to the one glorified by the Murphy Brown Left ) is, for most, a significant, troubled-child, substance abuse-inclined, back-breaking challenge.

And abortion isn’t as liberating as the T-shirts suggest.

Few, if any, women who decide to have an abortion receive anything else, so it might as well have been performed in the proverbial back-ally they were promised. You show up, they end the baby’s life, you get a receipt, and leave.

While statistics on post-procedure physical harms or deaths are purposefully shrouded in mystery, they happen. But the Abortion Industrial Complex - for all its talk of women's health care - wants nothing to do with actual health care providers, urgent care clinics, or hospitals with actual doctors. Is it because they don’t care or that they don’t want anyone involved who actually has to report an invasive outpatient surgical procedure?

Both?

As bad as that is, there is zero mental health care before or after. Planned Parenthood doesn’t provide counseling, but the process of pregnancy and ending it are significant hormonal adjustments. The baby might be gone, but the evolutionary emotional ramifications, biologically channeled for all of human history as part of the survival of the species, are not so easily disposed of or dismissed except by abortion providers.

Women have feelings, and women who lose pregnancies deliberately or not have them exponentially. If not for pregnancy care centers and the odd support group, these girls and women, many of them minorities, are left to figure that out on their own.

Neither the Abortion Industrial Complex nor its political ambassadors in government seem to give a damn. “Women’s health care” ends with the clank of the biowaste lid and a note about bleeding or other issues, which, if presenting, might require a visit with a real doctor. An indifference that has metastasized with the advent of Mifepristone.

The Chemical Coathanger

I’m more than half-inclined to think that the Left’s support for telehealth during what increasingly appears to be the strategic deployment of a SARS-CoV-2 bioweapon (doing business as The Pandemic) was ‘cuz abortion. Cue the dream sequence. Soft focus. Dimmed lighting. The makers of Mifeprestone are promising bags of gold after they make millions on mail-order abortion drugs. All you have to do is promote it.

The FDA, renowned collector of bags of gold from big Pharma, has done its part, editing or repealing any suggestion that a medicine capable of hemorrhaging a fledgling fetus from the uterine wall might have detrimental side effects. It’s St. Joseph’s no more baby aspirin. You zoom someone who doesn’t have to be a doctor. They take your money and send you what is supposed to be Mifepristone in the mail. You take it. There may be some bleeding and other biological material, but you can return to bringing home the tofu bacon and cooking it in the air fryer.

Or maybe not so fast.

A new report by my colleagues at the Ethics and Public Policy Center shows why this mail-order abortion scheme keeps putting women and girls into the hospital: Abortion drugs are far more dangerous than has previously been admitted. The report, authored by Jamie Bryan Hall and Ryan Anderson (our numbers guy and president, respectively), is the “largest-known study of the abortion pill.”

Using data from an insurance claims database that included “865,727 prescribed mifepristone abortions from 2017 to 2023,” they found that “10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.” Their analysis ignored mild or moderate adverse effects; it also did not track deaths because they are not included in a health insurance claims database. They conclude that “the real-world rate of serious adverse effects following mifepristone abortions is at least 22 times as high as the summary figure of ‘less than 0.5 percent’ in clinical trials reported on the drug label.”

More than one in ten are likely to have serious complications from the chemical coathanger abortion (with or without the back alley), and that’s without addressing the maze of potential health complications. None of which are in the best interests of the girls or women who have been promised another way to have sex without responsibility. A world unconstrained. Freed from the oppression of the patriarchy. A life filled with sexual liberation thanks to one pill and then another.

And sixty years later, married women of faith, in monogamous relationships, very likely with children, have the most sex, which suggests the best sex - intamcy that is both physically and mentally fulfilling and rewarding.

And there’s no pill for that.