The Death Pill Dilemma

The halftime score of Super Bowl LI was Atlanta 21 – New England 3. Midway through the third quarter, the Falcons were up 28-3, a seemingly insurmountable 25-point lead… and as the fourth quarter began, Atlanta still held a commanding 19-point edge over the hapless Patriots.

At that point in the game, Las Vegas oddsmakers gave the Falcons a 99.8% chance of winning. All head coach Dan Quinn and his NFC champion Falcons had to do was hang on for 15 more minutes and the Lombardi Trophy was theirs.

Victory was so assured that Falcons owner Athur Blank, co-founder of Home Depot, left his private box and made his way down to the sidelines, preparing to participate in the postgame celebration. Sadly for Blank, it never came as the Patriots – led by quarterback Tom Brady – scored 19 unanswered points to tie the game with just 58 seconds left in regulation, sending it into overtime.

New England won the coin toss and promptly marched down the field. A pass interference call put the ball at the one-yard line from where Pats’ running back James White punched the ball into the end zone for the biggest comeback victory in Super Bowl history.

I share this story from the world of sports to highlight the danger of premature celebrations.

On June 24, 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. By a 6-3 vote, the high court overturned a lower court ruling, thereby upholding the constitutionality of Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act – a law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy with exceptions for medical emergencies and fetal abnormalities.

By a 5-4 majority vote, SCOTUS also overturned two earlier abortion decisions: Roe v Wade (1973), and Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992); thereby concluding that the U.S. Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion. In doing so, the Supreme Court left the abortion question for individual states to decide as per the 10th Amendment.

As you can imagine, pro-lifers everywhere (including yours truly) rejoiced while pro-abortion advocates lashed out angrily or went into mourning, depressed and distraught over the thought that they could no longer murder their own preborn children indiscriminately. However, the more diehard and devious abortionists did not despair… they just switched gears.

Instead of making an appointment at the local Planned Parenthood clinic every time they experienced an inconvenient and unplanned pregnancy, they simply visited their local pharmacy or logged onto their computer and ordered a two-drug regimen that causes a chemical abortion. The first pill, mifepristone, blocks progesterone, the hormone needed to support a pregnancy; and the second, misoprostol, causes cramping and bleeding to empty the uterus.

According to the Cleveland Clinic’s website, “It’s a safe procedure that works by stopping the growth of the pregnancy and then causing the uterine lining to shed. The mifepristone and misoprostol regimen can be used up through 12 weeks for an at-home abortion.”

Safe for whom? Certainly not for the preborn baby, whose life is snuffed out before it has had a chance to grow inside the womb and live outside of it. And neither is it safe for the mother, with studies now showing that 11% of women who use this deadly two-drug regimen experience serious health complications, mostly while they are alone at home and far from emergency medical care.

Thinking that it is safe and believing the lie that their preborn child is nothing but a lump of inanimate tissue, pregnant women are taking these life-extinguishing drugs in record numbers. So much so, in fact, that the number of abortions in America have increased since Roe v Wade was overturned. Of the more than 1 million abortions last year, an estimated 63% were chemical abortions. That’s 630,000 preborn babies murdered in their own mother’s womb by a chemical cocktail.

Sensing yet another way to pad its pockets, Planned Parenthood embraced the two-drug regimen with open arms. Just be sure, they advise on their website, to stock up on “maxi pads, food, books, movies, or whatever you like to help pass the time” while your preborn baby is expelled from your body. What, no popcorn?

And yet, it gets even worse.

“It’s normal to see large blood clots (up to the size of a lemon) or clumps of tissue during the abortion,” PP’s demonic website says. “But the pregnancy [they mean your precious preborn baby] itself is very small – at 8 weeks, an embryo is about ¼ to ½ inch long.]

Gruesome to the max!

In the aftermath of the Dobbs decision, more than two dozen states passed pro-life legislation to safeguard and protect the lives of precious preborn children. Now, pro-abortionists are circumventing those laws, aided and abetted by the U.S. Postal Service and other package delivery services, which are delivering abortion death kits to front doors across America. And so, the Family Research Council and others are asking the Trump administration to stop this trafficking in death by (1) Restoring and strengthening FDA safety protocols for mifepristone; (2) Directing the FDA to reevaluate the drug's approval altogether; and (3) Instructing the DOJ to enforce the Comstock Act to protect states' rights to uphold pro-life laws.

Meanwhile, pro-life advocates can go to www.frc.org and sign their online petition asking President Trump to stop this chemical genocide in its tracks.

In 1675, France and Germany met in Strasbourg and agreed to prohibit the use of poison bullets. Subsequent chemical and biological weapon bans were adopted in 1874 and 1899. Finally, after some 124,200 tons of chlorine, mustard gas, and other chemical agents had been released during World War I – causing more than 90,000 soldiers to suffer painful deaths and leaving almost a million others blind, disfigured, or with debilitating injuries – the Geneva Protocol was passed in 1925, banning the use of chemical and bacteriological (biological) weapons in war.

If only the same protocol applied to preborn babies in the womb.