Tag: mifepristone

Activist Abortion Academics Want RU-486 Sold at Your Local Pharmacy

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL-ETF Director of Education & Research A little less than a year ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) eased restrictions on the use of the abortion pill RU-486 (miferpistone), reducing required dosages, extending the cutoff time, reducing office visits, and loosening the qualifications for prescribers. It was not …

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Members of House and Senate ask for documents behind FDA change in FDA protocol

By Dave Andrusko If you click here, you can read the entire letter sent by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Senator James Lankford (R-OK), joined by 73 of their colleagues, to Dr. Robert M. Califf, M.D., the FDA’s Commissioner, “requesting information about the agency’s recent decision to change its policies regarding the abortion drug mifepristone.” …

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In letter Members of House and Senate voice deep disappointment that FDA loosened standards for use of RU-486

Editor’s note. The following letter was sent to the Commissioner of the FDA by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) and Senator James Lankford (R-OK), joined by 73 of their colleagues. April 25, 2016 Dr. Robert M. Califf, M.D. Commissioner Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 10903 New Hampshire Ave Silver Spring, MD 20993 Dear Commissioner Califf, We …

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FDA expansion of abortion pill use still does not necessarily mean chemical abortion is safer

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL Director of Education & Research Many suspected that today’s announcement by the FDA was a long time coming. Despite a record of at least 14 known deaths, and thousands of women suffering significant adverse events, the FDA relaxed safety standards and modified the protocol for mifepristone/misoprostol chemical abortions that had …

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Man sentenced to nearly ten years for spiking girlfriend’s food with chemical abortifacient, killing 8-10-week-old unborn baby

By Dave Andrusko When last we reported on Scott Bollig, a jury of seven men and five women had found the 32 year old of WaKeeney, Kansas, guilty of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. However, after five hours of deliberation, the jury found Bollig not guilty of first-degree murder, aggravated battery, and distribution of adulterated …

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Kansas man convicted of lesser charges in death of baby killed by abortifacient

By Dave Andrusko On Wednesday a Trego County, Kansas jury returned not guilty verdicts on three of the four major counts against Scott Bollig, who was charged with spiking his ex-girlfriend’s food with an abortifacient that cause Namoi Abbott to lose her unborn baby. Mike Corn of the Hayes Daily News reported that the jury …

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Defense unsuccessfully attempts to impugn victim whose unborn baby was killed by an abortifacient

By Dave Andrusko The prosecution rested its case Tuesday against Scott Bollig after a pathologist and medical examiner testified that the death of Naomi Abbott’s unborn baby was “not a natural miscarriage” but the result of the abortifacient mifepristone. Bollig is charged with first-degree murder for allegedly lacing his then-girlfriend’s pancakes with mifepristone in January …

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Pennsylvania mother convicted of giving teen abortion pills

  By Dave Andrusko After pleading guilty, Jennifer A. Whalen was sentenced Friday to 9 to 18 months in jail for helping her then-16-year-old daughter abort her unborn child using illegally obtained drugs– Misoprostol and Mifepristone—from overseas. Whalen, 39, was sentenced by Montour County Court of Common Pleas Judge Gary Norton for violating a Pennsylvania …

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Kansas man charged with 1st degree murder for causing the abortion of girlfriend’s baby

  By Dave Andrusko Last Friday, following a two-day preliminary hearing at Trego County District Court, District Judge Glen Braun determined there was enough evidence to go ahead with the case against Scott Bollig. He will be tried on one count of first degree murder and one count of aggravated battery in the death of …

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Pennsylvania mother charged with giving teen abortion pills, waives preliminary hearing, faces arraignment in March

By Dave Andrusko A Pennsylvania newspaper reported Wednesday that a 38-year-old mother will face arraignment in March on charges that she helped her then-16-year-old daughter abort her unborn child using illegally obtained drugs– Misoprostol and Mifepristone—from overseas. Jennifer A. Whalen “is charged with a felony count of performing an illegal abortion, plus lesser counts of …

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Off-Label Abortion Pills being Sold at Flea Markets

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D., NRL-ETF Director of Education & Research When many people think of abortion pills, they think of RU-486, the abortion drug developed in France in the 1980s and sold in the U.S. since 2000. But there is another drug, misoprostol, a prostaglandin normally used in conjunction with RU-486, that is being …

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