This is who the abortion pill kills

The abortion pill doesn't 'bring down your period,' 'prevent a potential life,' or 'remove pregnancy tissue.' It kills living human beings.

Key Takeaways:

• The abortion pill is a drug that carries the intent to kill.

• Women are told that their babies are mere tissue at these first stages of life, but this is a marketing tactic to sell the abortion pill to vulnerable women and teens.

• Children develop rapidly in the womb. Just two weeks post-fertilization, their brains are beginning to form, and by 21 days, their hearts are already beating.

• Though marketed and dispensed even later in pregnancy, the abortion pill is currently only FDA-approved for use up to 10 weeks or pregnancy.

The Details:

The abortion pill is approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use through 70 days (10 weeks) of pregnancy, however, abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood market it for use up to 84 days (12 weeks) of pregnancy. It's 'effectiveness' — marked by the success of both killing the baby and expelling the baby from the mother's uterus — decreases with each week.

Hence the 'hurry up and take the abortion pill' mentality of the abortion industry that wants to get women in and out and collect their money before they have a chance to choose life amid their fears and pressures to abort. Their major marketing strategy is convincing women that their babies are not yet babies, just mere "pregnancy tissue." False images of babies at these early stages of development abound. But here's the truth. The abortion pill is the leading abortion procedure in the nation, and is primarily used in the first three months of pregnancy to kill new human beings.

The abortion pill includes two drugs: mifepristone and misoprostol. Mifepristone is taken first, and it counteracts the natural pregnancy hormone progesterone, essentially depriving the child of the nutritional support and oxygen needed to survive. Misoprostol causes contractions that then expel the baby.

This is who the abortion pill kills.

Human being at six weeks gestation

By six weeks gestation (which is four weeks after fertilization; "gestational" age or LMP adds two weeks for the estimated time between a woman's menstruation and ovulation though the embryo does not come into being until after ovulation and fertilization), the brain has already developed into three identifiable primary sections — the forebrain, midbrain, and hindbrain. The heart forms between 18 and 22 days after fertilization (though it does not yet have four chambers) and is already beating, and the circulatory system is functioning.

"By [6 1/2 weeks gestation] portions of the brain forming the right and left cerebral hemispheres appear. The cerebral hemispheres will soon become the largest parts of the brain, eventually controlling everything from thought, speech, hearing, vision, voluntary movement, memory, and many other functions," notes the Endowment for Human Development.

Early eyes can be seen as well (at six weeks, three days), and limb buds have formed at six weeks. At six weeks, the baby's heart is functioning as two parallel pumps, and the small and large intestines have formed.

The Beating Heart in Slow Motion: 4 1/2 Weeks Pregnant

Human being at eight weeks gestation

"The permanent kidneys appear by 5 weeks [7 weeks gestation]," and by eight weeks, two days gestation (just six weeks, two days after fertilization), according to the Endowment for Human Development (EHD), "the embryo has brainwaves." 

Human being at nine weeks gestation

By nine weeks gestation (seven weeks after fertilization), the preborn baby's heart has four chambers and is beating at 165 to 170 beats per minute.

According to EHD, "Also by [9 weeks gestation], cell groupings resembling taste buds appear on the tongue and hiccups begin. Nasal plugs are prominent at this time and will persist for another 6 weeks or so."

The Beating Heart at 7 weeks of Pregnancy

Human being at 10 weeks

By 10 weeks gestation, the baby can reach to touch her hands to her face. Her mouth opens and closes, and she can roll over.

Eyebrows begin to form and male babies are producing testosterone. In addition, the blood supply to the brain "closely resembles adult pattern," according to EHD, and the "cranial nerve distribution mimics adult pattern."

Human being at 12 weeks

By 12 weeks gestation (10 weeks after fertilization), the baby's hands, face, and feet are sensitive to light touch and she can sigh, stretch, open her mouth, and move her tongue. Her fingernails and toenails have begun to form, and, according to EHD, "Drinking fluid is becoming routine."

View more details and images of life inside the womb at EHD's website.

Why It Matters:

These are the preborn babies routinely targeted by abortion pill manufacturers and prescribers and consistently dehumanized as simple "tissue." Abortion supporters will argue that these children are not "fully developed" and therefore, are not yet human beings. But just because they have not reached the stage of existence at which they can survive outside the womb does not mean they are not human.

Is a newborn less human because she cannot feed herself or walk? Is a toddler less human because he cannot read? Is a person with diabetes less human because his pancreas is not fully functioning? None of our abilities or inabilities, temporary or permanent, dictate our humanity. Every human being is a human person at all times and all stages of life.

Zoom Out:

Although the abortion pill is only FDA-approved through 10 weeks, women are able to access it and take it at any point in pregnancy because of a failure by the manufacturers to police prescribers and because of eroded safety protocols surrounding the drugs.

In 2024, during a traffic stop, police discovered the body of a baby boy inside the car. The woman, Mikayla Rose Sando, had learned she was pregnant at 16 weeks, and took "a pill" to abort the baby at about 21 to 22 weeks. His body was too big to flush down the toilet so she put him in a plastic bag in the car, where she kept him for days.

In 2020, a woman in the UK obtained the abortion pill by mail to have an abortion at seven months. Over 90% of babies born at this age survive.

A lawsuit filed against Planned Parenthood in 2022, alleged that the abortion giant gave the abortion pill to a woman who was 33-36 weeks pregnant following a 15 minute, two second telehealth conference. The woman went into "full labor," "experienced... a vaginal laceration or tear," and gave birth at three in the morning while sitting on the toilet to a "fully formed, stillborn baby boy named J.T."

Planned Parenthood also gave the abortion pill to Christin Lafo, who gave birth to a 22-week-stillborn baby into a toilet.

The Bottom Line:

The abortion pill is not medicine. Its intent is to kill, and safety rules surrounding mifepristone that were weakened under the Biden administration have made it easier than ever to kill babies.