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Hochul promises 'consequences' if drugstores don't sell abortion pills: 'Pharmacies are the new battleground'

Gov. Kathy Hochul, D-N.Y., threatened the Walgreens Corporation on Friday, claiming that if the drugstore chain pulled the abortion drug Mifepristone from pharmacy shelves in New York there would be "consequences."

Abortion headlines on steroids are plastered nationwide as a federal judge in Texas prepares to decide if Chemical Abortion Pills were recklessly introduced in the U.S. market leading to a reprisal of Chicken Little’s famous cry, "The sky is falling" because a dangerous abortion pill may not be available.  

For women who want to survive an abortion without injury, infertility, death, or exposure to abusers, this is good news. The rush job for approval led by former President Bill Clinton, ignored potential problems, resulting from a strange focus by our federal government – a fixation on corporate interests and not on the consumer or patient.   

A quick sale of RU-486, chemical abortion pills, sent to a pregnant mother who must handle all the repercussions alone, does a lot for Corporate Abortion. They’re able to cut costs for personnel, testing, follow-up care, and fetal disposal. But what about the woman?  

CALIFORNIA BILL PROTECTS DOCTORS WHO MAIL ABORTION PILLS TO OUT-OF-STATE PATIENTS

When it comes to safe, legal and rare abortion, why did "safe" get dropped?   

Abortion pill approval was pushed by then President Bill Clinton. FILE: Clinton reacts to being impeached by the House of Representatives outside of the Oval Office in the White House Rose Garden, Washington, DC, December 19, 1998. (L-R), House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt, Clinton, Vice President Al Gore. (David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)

In the case filed by Alliance Defending Freedom on behalf of pro-life, pro-women doctors, attorney Eric Baptist argued, "The FDA never had the authority to approve these drugs and remove important safeguards, despite the substantial evidence of the harms women and girls who undergo this dangerous drug regimen could suffer."  

Chemical Abortion Pills, RU-486, are a two-drug protocol that together work to end life. First, the drug on the chopping block, mifepristone, blocks pregnancy-supporting hormones, while a second round of pills, misoprostol, starts contractions. NIH published studies show "a higher incidence of adverse events" for those using the pills than getting surgical abortions, with a four-times-higher risk of injury and a risk of death that "appears to be 10 times greater."  

And that’s if you’re doing it "right."   

The FDA once had health-and-safety standards in place to prevent known risks such as death or infection when the pills are taken later in pregnancy or when a woman is experiencing an ectopic pregnancy, one that is not in the womb. A routine ultrasound is used to screen those out, but no more, thanks to the No Test, Online Distribution championed by the Biden administration.   

At one point, a routine check for Rh-negative status also protected a mother’s future fertility as 15% of Americans have that blood type and can form deadly antibodies that can attack a future pregnancy resulting in numerous miscarriages. A simple injection of Rh immunoglobulin quickly given after birth, miscarriage, or abortion can prevent that, but again, such care has been dropped from Chemical Abortion requirements.  

This isn't a benign cough syrup used off label. This isn’t health care.