Tea at Trianon: FDA Warns of Grave Dangers of Abortion Pill

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Sunday, November 20, 2022

FDA Warns of Grave Dangers of Abortion Pill

From The National Catholic Register:

The FDA representative anonymously told Politico that the abortion pill mifepristone is “not approved for advance provision of a medical abortion,” because if mifepristone “were prescribed before a patient is pregnant, providers wouldn’t be able to properly oversee care to ensure safety and effectiveness.” The spokesman expressed concern that “if patients were to take mifepristone weeks or months after getting a prescription filled, a medical professional may not be able to assess if a pregnancy is intrauterine or ectopic or date pregnancies properly. The drug is only approved through 70-days gestation for abortions.”

Dr. George Delgado, medical director of Culture of Life Family Healthcare in San Diego, told the Register that for any telehealth or “mail-order medical abortions,” where there is no in-person visit with a doctor, the risks “will be the same as if you buy it ahead of time.”

Those risks include “the possibility of an erroneous diagnosis of pregnancy because a woman is just taking it and not confirming her pregnancy with anybody else” or “inaccurate dating of pregnancy.”

The FDA did not respond by press time to the Register’s questions regarding whether the federal health agency believes the concerns over advance prescription of mifepristone also apply to telehealth prescriptions of the drug and receiving it via mail, particularly in the cases of ectopic pregnancy or ensuring the correct dating of a pregnancy. (Read more.)

Abortions are decreasing. From Women of Grace:

A new report by a pro-abortion group named #WeCount found that the number of abortions dropped dramatically since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson’s Women’s Health Organization overturned Roe v. Wade.
According to #WeCount, a national reporting effort dedicated to tracking shifts in abortion access by state since the Dobbs decision, the number of abortions in the U.S. has declined by six percent. In April of 2022, the estimated number of abortions provided by a clinician decreased from 85,020 to 79,620 abortions in August. There were 5,270 fewer abortions in July and 5,400 fewer abortions in August for a total of 10,670 fewer babies who were aborted that month.
The breakdown by states found that states with some abortion restrictions in place saw a decline of 32 percent with the numbers dropping from 13,850 abortions in April to 9,390 abortions in August. This amounted to 6,620 few women who had abortions in those states.
The most dramatic declines were found in states that enacted restrictions or total bans on abortions, including Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wisconsin. #WeCount estimated that the number of abortions provided by clinicians in these states or those that restrict abortion to six weeks, decreased from 8,500 abortions in April to 460 abortions in August. In states with bans or severe restrictions, there were 7,870 fewer abortions in July and 8,040 fewer abortions in August, for a total of 15,910 fewer women who had abortions in those states. This change represents a decrease of 95 percent in the number of abortions in those states. (Read more.)