Michael Dorstewitz wrote in his April 30 Newsmax column:
A new study revealed that chemical abortions aren’t nearly as safe as we’ve been led to believe.
From the beginning, the public was told that less than 0.05% of patients will experience complications from chemical abortions, a percentage so insignificant that women were permitted to take the pill at home during the COVID pandemic.
However, a real-world study released this week, based on 865,727 abortions, revealed that 10.93% of women experienced severe and even life-threatening complications from such procedures.
That’s 22 times higher than what was previously reported.
Dorstewitz is referring to the study conducted for the right-wing Ethics and Public Policy Center. As we documented, it’s a highly dubious study — no peer review was conducted, the database used wasn’t revealed, and the numbers don’t stand up to scrutiny. Perhaps sensing these issues, Dorstewitz tried to play up the academic credentials of the EPPC writers Ryan Anderson and Jamie Bryan Hall:
Anderson is a Princeton graduate with a doctorate in political science from Notre Dame, and Hall holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Harvard in applied math and statistics.
Note that neither Anderson nor Hall have any medical credentials. Dorstewitz doesn’t either, which his why his column begins with the note “The following opinion column was written by a nonclinician.” Still, he has an agenda to push:
Who possibly could have predicted that ingesting a substance that was designed to kill human life might be harmful … to human life?
So much for “safe and effective.”
Public health officials were not very forthcoming about mRNA vaccines, the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the safety and advisability of puberty blockers and “gender-affirming” surgeries for America’s youth.
Now it’s pretty obvious that the public has also been deceived about the safety of mifepristone for chemically-induced abortions.
“Chemical abortion,” of course, is a deliberately loaded and biased term. Dorstewitz would never describe taking aspirin as ingesting a “chemical.”