New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed another radical pro-abortion bill Friday that will shield abortionists from punishment if they mail abortion pills to women in other states, often without seeing the woman in person or verifying that the request came from her, not an abuser.
CNBC reports Hochul said she is “hell bent” on making sure these dangerous mail-order abortion practices continue unhindered.
“You want to prosecute, penalize, sue one of our health care providers? Well, we’re not going to help you,” the Democrat governor said, addressing pro-life advocates. “You can continue hell bent down your path on continuing this radical behavior, but we will be just as hell bent on stopping you. This is New York.”
New York City erected a golden idol to abortion on top of its courthouse in January, and the state has some of the most extreme pro-abortion laws in the country. Even abusers who kill pregnant women’s unborn babies in crimes unrelated to abortion cannot be punished after Democrats repealed the state fetal homicide law a few years ago.
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The newest pro-abortion action keeps New York abortionists from being investigated or punished for selling abortion pills through the mail to women in states where the practice is illegal. The new law, which passed the state legislature Tuesday, also prohibits authorities from cooperating with other states that are investigating illegal abortion practices.
Meanwhile, dangerous mail-order abortion businesses are popping up across the country, putting mothers’ and unborn babies’ lives at risk. Most sell abortion pills to women without seeing them for a medical exam or confirming that the individual requesting the abortion is a pregnant woman who wants it. And when women suffer abortion complications, the abortionist is not there to help them.
But pro-abortion lawmakers are so focused on expanding mail-order abortion drugs that they ignore these serious safety risks, and similar bills have passed in Massachusetts, Colorado, Vermont and Washington, according to the report.
Abortion activists claim the abortion drug mifepristone is incredibly safe – safe enough to take without ever seeing a doctor, and the Biden administration recently began allowing it to be sold through the mail without any direct medical supervision.
But emergency room doctors and OB-GYNs say they are seeing an uptick in women suffering from abortion complications due to the abortion pill. Crime reports also indicate abusers are buying abortion pills to force women and girls to abort their unborn babies.
A recent study by the Charlotte Lozier Institute found that the rate of abortion-related emergency room visits by women taking the abortion drug increased more than 500 percent between 2002 and 2015.
Another new study from the University of Toronto, “Short-Term Adverse Outcomes After Mifepristone–Misoprostol Versus Procedural Induced Abortion,” published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that about one in ten women who took the abortion pill had to go to the emergency room, according to Pregnancy Help News.
Similarly, a 2009 study “Immediate Complications After Medical Compared With Surgical Termination of Pregnancy,” in “Obstetrics and Gynecology” found a complication rate of approximately 20 percent for the abortion drugs compared to 5.6 percent for surgical abortions. Hemorrhages and incomplete abortions were among the most common complications.
Along with millions of unborn babies’ deaths, the FDA has linked mifepristone to at least 28 women’s deaths and 4,000 serious complications. However, under President Barack Obama, the FDA stopped requiring that non-fatal complications from mifepristone be reported.
Right now, federal courts are considering a case filed by doctors with the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, challenging the FDA’s approval and later expansion of mifepristone as an abortion drug under Democrat presidential administrations.
The doctors said the FDA failed to properly study the safety of mifepristone and ignored federal law when it began allowing the drug to be sold through the mail without direct medical oversight. As emergency room physicians and OB-GYNs, the doctors said they have witnessed “the enormous pressure and stress caused by emergency treatment from chemical abortion [abortion drugs] gone wrong.”
