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Big Abortion's 'Healthcare' Vision: Killing preborn children at home while 'surrounded by loved ones'
In 2000, Gao Ersheng, director of the Shanghai Planned Parenthood Research Institute told the New York Times that the abortion pill "might soon be available over the counter for use as an emergency contraceptive, or 'moming [sp] after' pill.'" Though it's been a quarter of a century since that prediction, the abortion industry has been preparing for over-the-counter (OTC) abortion pills — and Ershang's prediction may soon come true.
Big Abortion's incremental approach to bringing the abortion pill OTC somewhat mirrors the trajectory it used to get emergency contraception (EC) prescription-only (behind the pharmacy counter) to openly sitting on store shelves.
The goal of Big Abortion is to make the abortion pill available over the counter.
The industry followed this model with emergency contraception first.
The scheme appears to have been to create abortion pill chaos (distributing it past FDA limits, in advance of pregnancy, etc.), to get the drug into pharmacies for other indications, and to build a model to approve pharmacists to prescribe abortion pills (just as some are now prescribing contraception).
The abortion industry suggests that "receiving essential health care" looks like taking the abortion pill to end a preborn human being's life while "surrounded by loved ones, in [your] pajamas."
As the FDA works on its now-delayed abortion pill safety review, industry insiders are signaling where they see the drug going, with the rollout of OTC abortion pill prototype packaging.
As we await the results, look for OTC abortion pill propaganda to increase.
The model Big abortion is using is one they successfully implemented when they were able to get emergency contraception OTC.
A history published by Planned Parenthood noted stated:
In July 1997, an EC collaborative drug therapy agreement pilot project was launched in Washington State. Collaborative drug therapy agreements between pharmacists and prescribers, such as physicians or nurse practitioners, grant the pharmacist the authority to write prescriptions under a set of prescribing protocols.
The Emergency Contraception Collaborative Agreement Pilot Project was a two-year (July 1997 to June 1999) pilot program in Washington State.
By June 2000, Big Abortion had "voiced support for making EC available OTC or through a pharmacist."
On August 24, 2006, the FDA announced EC's would be available OTC to those 18 and older. By 2009, that age was reduced to 17.
By April of 2013, a ruling from a federal judge ordered the FDA to "lift all age or point-of sale restrictions placed on levonorgestrel-based EC and make the medication available OTC."
Neither the mechanisms of action nor the drugs in emergency contraception and the abortion pill are the same.
#1: OTC Floated Among Abortion Pill Chaos
Since approval of the abortion pill, Big Abortion has gone completely off the rails, prescribing the drug well into the second and even third trimesters, selling the abortion pill "just in case" or in "advance" of a pregnancy, and even deceptively as a "missed period pill."
Neither the FDA nor the manufacturers have done anything to stop it.
The industry also began its pivot to the one-drug protocol of misoprostol only.
As far back as 2022, Renee Bracey Sherman, founder and former executive director of the abortion group We Testify and a former NARAL board member, co-authored an op-ed with abortionist Daniel Grossman, calling for the abortion pill to be sold over-the-counter.
And they seem to be following the roadmap used for EC, as explained by abortionist Daniel Grossman:
Before emergency contraception (aka the morning-after pill) became available over the counter, clinicians often gave it to patients in advance [advance provision] to have on hand when they needed it. Given the restrictions on abortion, we should think about this strategy for abortion pills.
In 2019, Grossman and other abortion industry insiders co-authored the result of a survey they conducted on women’s attitudes about advance provision of abortion pills (obtaining the pills to "have on hand" before a confirmed pregnancy) as well as OTC abortion pills. As Live Action News previously documented, out of 6,950 surveyed, only 9% of the women answered “definitely yes” and 14% answered “probably yes” to wanting OTC access.
#2: Get Abortion Pills on Pharmacy Shelf for Other Indications
Abortion insiders have been scheming to get abortion drugs into pharmacies by approving it for "other indications."
This will almost certainly guarantee they can never be removed.
2021: Clinical trials were conducted to test pharmacist knowledge in dispensing the abortion pill.
2023: The Biden FDA eroded safety regulations to allow for mail-order and pharmacy dispensing of the drug with an approved prescription, despite a lack of knowledge of the risks for the drug.
#3: Develop Pharmacist Prescribing Model
OTC abortion pills will require Big abortion to eliminate the FDA's REMS, convince the public the drugs are safe for OTC sale, remove all informed consent and counseling requirements for the drug, and familiarize pharmacists with how to prescribe and dispense drugs that intentionally kill human beings.
In 2016, Obama's FDA removed the mandate to report all abortion pill complications.
By 2023, Biden's FDA had opened the flood gates to mail-order and pharmacy dispensing. And recently, Big abortion suggested the required "patient agreement form" for mifepristone is "not useful." This would make prescribing the drug far less cumbersome for them, but would also leave women far less informed of the risks.
In October of this year, Ibis Reproductive Health, where abortionist Daniel Grossman once served as a senior director, published "Pharmacy-Based Medication Abortion Model" for pharmacy prescribing.
It concluded:
There are multiple ways to implement this model of care including using collaborative practice agreements between abortion-providing clinicians and pharmacists, a state-wide standing order, a statewide protocol, or via legislation granting pharmacists prescriptive authority.
#4: Approve Pharmacists to Prescribe Abortion Pills
A 2024 pilot study stated the obvious out loud (emphases added):
Pharmacist provision of medication abortion has the potential to increase access to medication abortion...
Collaborative practice agreements... that historically exist at academic medical centers will be required to support community partnerships for pharmacists to provide linkages to care in the rare case of failed medication abortion or emergencies.
In 2023, Pharmacist Abortion Access Project (PAAP) was launched to recruit and train pharmacists to prescribe abortion pills, according to PrismReports.com. The group is led in part by Dr. Jessica Nouhavandi, co-founder of the abortion pill online pharmacy Honeybee Health.
According to NPR:
The project... run by Washington-based advocacy group Uplift International, trains community pharmacists in Washington to screen patients for medication abortion eligibility, prescribe abortion pills, and dispense them from their brick-and-mortar stores — a streamlined model of care that currently exists nowhere else in the United States.
Additional states like New York and California have also expressed interest.
By 2024, Big Abortion had geared up to promote pharmacists prescribing abortion pills. That same year, a survey of pharmacists found that "less than half were confident in their knowledge of medication abortion (139 of 288 [48.3%]) or their ability to prescribe it (115 of 285 [40.4%])."
PAAP founder Dr. Beth Rivin pointed to the expansion of Plan B as her inspiration:
Remember, pharmacists have a history of of providing reproductive health services such as emergency contraception or Plan B and also contraception.
Before Plan B was over the counter in the 1990's pharmacists were prescribing Plan B in Washington State. Then other states allowed pharmacists to prescribe Plan B.It all started in Washington State... the first state to allow pharmacists to legally prescribe medications.
2000: Abortion pill mifepristone (200mg)/Mifeprex approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be dispensed by a physician in-person and later placed under a REMS safety system to monitor adverse events.
2011: Abortion pill placed under the REMS safety system. At same time, pro-abortion Coalition to Improve Access to Mifepristone was seeking to loosen the REMS safety restrictions on the drug.
2016: Manufacturer Danco Laboratories obtains funding to file a New Drug Approval (NDA) supplement and the FDA approves it, loosening the safety protocols for the abortion pill Mifeprex (mifepristone).
2023: In-person dispensing requirement for the drug removed to allow for mail order and pharmacy dispensing.
These incremental expansions were by design to combat obstacles discovered early on:
Physicians did not want to sign the prescriber agreement for fear that the list, which was maintained by Danco Laboratories, would eventually become public.
Many doctors were unwilling to stock the abortion pill even if willing to prescribe it.
But the abortion industry wanted to increase distribution of the abortion pill, and, as the latest data reveals, expanding access to abortion pills increases abortion.
What better way than to push for over-the-counter (OTC) dispensing of the deadly drug?
There are now an estimated 8,200 prescribers and 6,000 pharmacies (likely more) certified to either prescribe or dispense the abortion pill. But that represents just 1% of licensed physicians. So far, while several states allow pharmacists to prescribe vaccines and drugs for other conditions, a limited number of states allow pharmacists to prescribe all drugs.
As the FDA works on its now-delayed abortion pill safety review, industry insiders are signaling where they see the drug going, with the rollout of OTC abortion pill prototype packaging called "MiMi." (It stands for Mifepristone/Misoprostol.)
According to Ibis:
Ibis Reproductive Health, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), and the Generative Learning Community on SMA coordinate the medication abortion over the counter (MAB OTC) coalition.
The MAB OTC coalition is a growing group of abortion providers, lawyers, advocates, researchers and others who are interested in learning more and participating in activities related to MAB OTC.
We hold several meetings and webinars throughout the year about research, legal and regulatory pathways, and advocacy related to the long-term vision of MAB OTC, as well as send updates on our work via email.
Shockingly, ANSIRH even suggested that taking OTC abortion pills at home in "pajamas" was "essential health care."
As the results of the FDA's abortion pill safety study are awaited, look for OTC abortion pill propaganda to increase. Big Abortion always tells us what they plan to do next.
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Big Abortion's 'Healthcare' Vision: Killing preborn children at home while 'surrounded by loved ones'
In 2000, Gao Ersheng, director of the Shanghai Planned Parenthood Research Institute told the New York Times that the abortion pill "might soon be available over the counter for use as an emergency contraceptive, or 'moming [sp] after' pill.'" Though it's been a quarter of a century since that prediction, the abortion industry has been preparing for over-the-counter (OTC) abortion pills — and Ershang's prediction may soon come true.
Big Abortion's incremental approach to bringing the abortion pill OTC somewhat mirrors the trajectory it used to get emergency contraception (EC) prescription-only (behind the pharmacy counter) to openly sitting on store shelves.
The goal of Big Abortion is to make the abortion pill available over the counter.
The industry followed this model with emergency contraception first.
The scheme appears to have been to create abortion pill chaos (distributing it past FDA limits, in advance of pregnancy, etc.), to get the drug into pharmacies for other indications, and to build a model to approve pharmacists to prescribe abortion pills (just as some are now prescribing contraception).
The abortion industry suggests that "receiving essential health care" looks like taking the abortion pill to end a preborn human being's life while "surrounded by loved ones, in [your] pajamas."
As the FDA works on its now-delayed abortion pill safety review, industry insiders are signaling where they see the drug going, with the rollout of OTC abortion pill prototype packaging.
As we await the results, look for OTC abortion pill propaganda to increase.
The model Big abortion is using is one they successfully implemented when they were able to get emergency contraception OTC.
A history published by Planned Parenthood noted stated:
In July 1997, an EC collaborative drug therapy agreement pilot project was launched in Washington State. Collaborative drug therapy agreements between pharmacists and prescribers, such as physicians or nurse practitioners, grant the pharmacist the authority to write prescriptions under a set of prescribing protocols.
The Emergency Contraception Collaborative Agreement Pilot Project was a two-year (July 1997 to June 1999) pilot program in Washington State.
By June 2000, Big Abortion had "voiced support for making EC available OTC or through a pharmacist."
On August 24, 2006, the FDA announced EC's would be available OTC to those 18 and older. By 2009, that age was reduced to 17.
By April of 2013, a ruling from a federal judge ordered the FDA to "lift all age or point-of sale restrictions placed on levonorgestrel-based EC and make the medication available OTC."
Neither the mechanisms of action nor the drugs in emergency contraception and the abortion pill are the same.
#1: OTC Floated Among Abortion Pill Chaos
Since approval of the abortion pill, Big Abortion has gone completely off the rails, prescribing the drug well into the second and even third trimesters, selling the abortion pill "just in case" or in "advance" of a pregnancy, and even deceptively as a "missed period pill."
Neither the FDA nor the manufacturers have done anything to stop it.
The industry also began its pivot to the one-drug protocol of misoprostol only.
As far back as 2022, Renee Bracey Sherman, founder and former executive director of the abortion group We Testify and a former NARAL board member, co-authored an op-ed with abortionist Daniel Grossman, calling for the abortion pill to be sold over-the-counter.
And they seem to be following the roadmap used for EC, as explained by abortionist Daniel Grossman:
Before emergency contraception (aka the morning-after pill) became available over the counter, clinicians often gave it to patients in advance [advance provision] to have on hand when they needed it. Given the restrictions on abortion, we should think about this strategy for abortion pills.
In 2019, Grossman and other abortion industry insiders co-authored the result of a survey they conducted on women’s attitudes about advance provision of abortion pills (obtaining the pills to "have on hand" before a confirmed pregnancy) as well as OTC abortion pills. As Live Action News previously documented, out of 6,950 surveyed, only 9% of the women answered “definitely yes” and 14% answered “probably yes” to wanting OTC access.
#2: Get Abortion Pills on Pharmacy Shelf for Other Indications
Abortion insiders have been scheming to get abortion drugs into pharmacies by approving it for "other indications."
This will almost certainly guarantee they can never be removed.
2021: Clinical trials were conducted to test pharmacist knowledge in dispensing the abortion pill.
2023: The Biden FDA eroded safety regulations to allow for mail-order and pharmacy dispensing of the drug with an approved prescription, despite a lack of knowledge of the risks for the drug.
#3: Develop Pharmacist Prescribing Model
OTC abortion pills will require Big abortion to eliminate the FDA's REMS, convince the public the drugs are safe for OTC sale, remove all informed consent and counseling requirements for the drug, and familiarize pharmacists with how to prescribe and dispense drugs that intentionally kill human beings.
In 2016, Obama's FDA removed the mandate to report all abortion pill complications.
By 2023, Biden's FDA had opened the flood gates to mail-order and pharmacy dispensing. And recently, Big abortion suggested the required "patient agreement form" for mifepristone is "not useful." This would make prescribing the drug far less cumbersome for them, but would also leave women far less informed of the risks.
In October of this year, Ibis Reproductive Health, where abortionist Daniel Grossman once served as a senior director, published "Pharmacy-Based Medication Abortion Model" for pharmacy prescribing.
It concluded:
There are multiple ways to implement this model of care including using collaborative practice agreements between abortion-providing clinicians and pharmacists, a state-wide standing order, a statewide protocol, or via legislation granting pharmacists prescriptive authority.
#4: Approve Pharmacists to Prescribe Abortion Pills
A 2024 pilot study stated the obvious out loud (emphases added):
Pharmacist provision of medication abortion has the potential to increase access to medication abortion...
Collaborative practice agreements... that historically exist at academic medical centers will be required to support community partnerships for pharmacists to provide linkages to care in the rare case of failed medication abortion or emergencies.
In 2023, Pharmacist Abortion Access Project (PAAP) was launched to recruit and train pharmacists to prescribe abortion pills, according to PrismReports.com. The group is led in part by Dr. Jessica Nouhavandi, co-founder of the abortion pill online pharmacy Honeybee Health.
According to NPR:
The project... run by Washington-based advocacy group Uplift International, trains community pharmacists in Washington to screen patients for medication abortion eligibility, prescribe abortion pills, and dispense them from their brick-and-mortar stores — a streamlined model of care that currently exists nowhere else in the United States.
Additional states like New York and California have also expressed interest.
By 2024, Big Abortion had geared up to promote pharmacists prescribing abortion pills. That same year, a survey of pharmacists found that "less than half were confident in their knowledge of medication abortion (139 of 288 [48.3%]) or their ability to prescribe it (115 of 285 [40.4%])."
PAAP founder Dr. Beth Rivin pointed to the expansion of Plan B as her inspiration:
Remember, pharmacists have a history of of providing reproductive health services such as emergency contraception or Plan B and also contraception.
Before Plan B was over the counter in the 1990's pharmacists were prescribing Plan B in Washington State. Then other states allowed pharmacists to prescribe Plan B.It all started in Washington State... the first state to allow pharmacists to legally prescribe medications.
2000: Abortion pill mifepristone (200mg)/Mifeprex approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to be dispensed by a physician in-person and later placed under a REMS safety system to monitor adverse events.
2011: Abortion pill placed under the REMS safety system. At same time, pro-abortion Coalition to Improve Access to Mifepristone was seeking to loosen the REMS safety restrictions on the drug.
2016: Manufacturer Danco Laboratories obtains funding to file a New Drug Approval (NDA) supplement and the FDA approves it, loosening the safety protocols for the abortion pill Mifeprex (mifepristone).
2023: In-person dispensing requirement for the drug removed to allow for mail order and pharmacy dispensing.
These incremental expansions were by design to combat obstacles discovered early on:
Physicians did not want to sign the prescriber agreement for fear that the list, which was maintained by Danco Laboratories, would eventually become public.
Many doctors were unwilling to stock the abortion pill even if willing to prescribe it.
But the abortion industry wanted to increase distribution of the abortion pill, and, as the latest data reveals, expanding access to abortion pills increases abortion.
What better way than to push for over-the-counter (OTC) dispensing of the deadly drug?
There are now an estimated 8,200 prescribers and 6,000 pharmacies (likely more) certified to either prescribe or dispense the abortion pill. But that represents just 1% of licensed physicians. So far, while several states allow pharmacists to prescribe vaccines and drugs for other conditions, a limited number of states allow pharmacists to prescribe all drugs.
As the FDA works on its now-delayed abortion pill safety review, industry insiders are signaling where they see the drug going, with the rollout of OTC abortion pill prototype packaging called "MiMi." (It stands for Mifepristone/Misoprostol.)
According to Ibis:
Ibis Reproductive Health, Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH), and the Generative Learning Community on SMA coordinate the medication abortion over the counter (MAB OTC) coalition.
The MAB OTC coalition is a growing group of abortion providers, lawyers, advocates, researchers and others who are interested in learning more and participating in activities related to MAB OTC.
We hold several meetings and webinars throughout the year about research, legal and regulatory pathways, and advocacy related to the long-term vision of MAB OTC, as well as send updates on our work via email.
Shockingly, ANSIRH even suggested that taking OTC abortion pills at home in "pajamas" was "essential health care."
As the results of the FDA's abortion pill safety study are awaited, look for OTC abortion pill propaganda to increase. Big Abortion always tells us what they plan to do next.
Live Action News is pro-life news and commentary from a pro-life perspective.
Our work is possible because of our donors. Please consider giving to further our work of changing hearts and minds on issues of life and human dignity.
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·Imagine how many more patients could access abortion care if mifepristone was available over the counter. Medication abortions can be taken safely at home, meaning that patients can be surrounded by loved ones, in their pajamas, receiving essential health care.
What if medication abortion was available over the counter? We developed prototype OTC packaging for medication abortion (called MiMi) and found that most participants described the label as straightforward, clear, organized, and easy to read. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
Before emergency contraception (aka the morning-after pill) became available OTC, clinicians often gave it to patients in advance to have on hand when they needed it. Given the restrictions on abortion, we should think about this strategy for abortion pills.
