CV NEWS FEED // A prolife legal foundation has filed an Amici brief to the US Supreme Court on behalf of nearly three thousand women who have experienced injuries from chemical abortion pills.
In a March 18 press release, the Justice Foundation announced that it filed an Amici brief to the Supreme Court, representing the cases of 2,743 women who experienced severe physical and emotional consequences after taking chemical abortion pills.
The brief contains several witness accounts from women who took chemical abortion pills. One woman among them described the aftermath of taking mifepristone as “one of the most horrific experiences of my life.”
Prolife activist Abby Johnson and Martin Luther King’s niece, Alveda King are among the women represented in the brief.
In her witness, Johnson shared that she chose to have a chemical abortion shortly after she began volunteering at Planned Parenthood. Johnson stated that although doctors told her the experience would resemble “having a heavy period,” she began to hemorrhage and pass clots within 30 minutes of taking the pill:
I experienced intense cramping. I had never experienced pain so severe. Now that I have had children, I realize that I was experiencing labor-like contractions. I began to vomit from the pain. I was passing clots the size of lemons.
I remember passing my baby. I scooped my baby up in my hands and for a moment, wasn’t sure what to do. No one had prepared me for that moment. I didn’t expect to recognize my baby. It felt wrong to flush my baby down the toilet, but I didn’t know what else to do. In the end, I dropped my child in the toilet, closed my eyes, and flushed.
The brief was submitted in response to the upcoming Supreme Court Case, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, which could potentially challenge the current legal status of chemical abortion drugs.
The release concluded:
The women represented [in the brief] are asking the highest court in the land to stop all distribution of the reckless Chemical Abortion Polls; reverse the FDA approval of the drug; and protect women from the lies, injuries, and predatory practices of the abortion industry.
