On July 23, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced that his office has filed a lawsuit against Planned Parenthood Federation of America, the national branch of the nation’s largest abortion business, on the grounds that the organization falsely promoted claims denying the abortion drug mifepristone’s dangers to sell more pills at the expense of women’s safety.
In a press release, Attorney General Bailey stated:
The national Planned Parenthood organization is actively endangering the lives of women and girls across the country by spreading lies and disinformation about the powerful chemical abortion drug. The facts are clear: more than 4.5 percent of women who take this dangerous drug end up in the emergency room, yet Planned Parenthood compares it to Tylenol. This is a blatant violation of Missouri law, and I will not allow a death factory to lie to Missouri women in pursuit of its radical agenda.
The suit seeks, among other court actions, a penalty of $1.8 million and an order that PPFA cease spreading false pro-abortion claims in the state of Missouri.
In response to this news, AAPLOG Action posted on X, “Our patients deserve better than to be subjected to false and scientifically meaningless claims like ‘mifepristone is safer than Tylenol’ by exploitative businesses seeking to sell abortion drugs.”
AG Bailey’s decision to hold Planned Parenthood accountable for its dangerous lies is an important one. The abortion industry’s denial of drug-induced abortion’s risks to the health of women has fueled what we called a “public health crisis” caused by the deregulation of these drugs and the proliferation of mail-order abortion.
In an op-ed published in Evie Magazine, Dr. Christina Francis points out:
Despite the claims by some pro-abortion medical organizations that mifepristone is “safe and effective…and complications are exceedingly rare, minor, and most often easily treatable”, our clinical experiences, international studies and new data on mifepristone’s safety signal a dire need for increased oversight and closer study.
We hope that the work of medical professionals to call attention to the dangers of abortion drugs will lead to improved awareness and safety outcomes for our patients and that Planned Parenthood will be held accountable for placing profits over patient safety.
