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Abortion militant Jessica Valenti’s excusatory essay on the alleged wonderfulness of chemical (“medication”) abortions is worth analyzing. Her piece, which ran yesterday in the New York Times , carried the unintentionally self-condemning headline, “ The Anti-Abortion Movement Can’t Use This Myth Anymore” [www.nytimes.com/2021/05/13/opinion/abortion-pill-fda-covid.html]
Briefly, the gist of the argument from “the author of six books on feminism” is that, thankfully, we’ve reached the expiration date on the “excuse” that pro-lifers (and others) have used to require women to make an in-person visit to receive the first of two drugs (mifepristone) that make up chemical abortion technique.
Why? (All together) Because chemical abortion are proven to be safe, safe, safe. We’ll get back to this myth—and it is a myth– in a moment.
To be sure, such protective requirements are, in a FDA under the thumb of the Biden-Harris administration, about to vanish—and in Valenti’s view, none too soon. She begins Last month , the [Biden-Harris] Food and Drug Administration announced that people [aka women] seeking abortion pills during the Covid-19 pandemic will no longer have to visit a doctor’s office to get a prescription. Under the Trump administration, patients were required to receive the first of the medication’s two doses in person, a mandate upheld by the Supreme Court in January . The new policy instead allows for telemedicine consultations and pills sent by mail. This, Valenti opines could also be a huge blow to the anti-abortion movement. Groups like the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have been pushing the Biden administration to make the F.D.A.’s decision permanent. Last week, in a legal filing , the agency announced it was reviewing their restrictions on the medication. And, of course, if abortion is safe, safe, safe and an in-person visit is no more than an unnecessary annoyance, we can expect the FDA will make the decision permanent. If there is “collateral damage”—additional deaths and serious complications—a small price to pay, no?
She makes a number of polemical points in her guest op-ed. For starters, pro-lifers (of course) only fake concern for abortion-minded women. Tell that to the 2,700 pregnancy help centers or to […]
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