Less than Half of Reproductive-Age Women Consider Abortion Pill Safe

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KFF, once known as The Kaiser Family Foundation, is viewed as an independently reliable source for health policy research, polling, and news. However, its views are clearly biased towards the pro-abortion side.

In a surprising twist, the results from a Health Tracking Poll revealed that only 41% of women of reproductive age today perceive the abortion pill as safe. This is a decrease from 59% two years ago. Furthermore, the perception of the pill being unsafe has risen from 12% to 21%.

Debates surrounding the statistics ensued, with various researchers offering their perspectives. Among them, Dr. Randall K. O’Bannon, Director of Education & Research at NRLC stated, “Despite their best, concerted efforts, word has leaked out and gotten around that these chemical abortions are painful, bloody, and dangerous.”

In addition, researchers mention that the public’s unawareness of the rising percentage of chemical abortions adds to the controversy. They imply that if the public were aware of this, the resistance toward mifepristone (the primary drug used in chemical abortions) might decrease.

The public is also largely unknown of the pill’s safety record, possibly due to the media’s silence over its many complications. The ethics and Public Policy Center found that 10.93% of women prescribed with mifepristone suffered a serious medical issue. This percentage is significantly higher than the one reported on the drug’s label.

Moreover, the results of the poll showed that people would support laws making it a crime for healthcare providers to mail abortion pills to patients in states where abortion is banned. However, critics say these types of questions fail to address that these laws are not put in place to ban abortions, but rather to protect the lives of unborn children.

This article, originally published by the National Right to Life News, brings to light new perspectives on public opinion regarding medical abortion.