Planned Parenthood recently announced that it will start providing high-risk abortion drugs to women in Illinois via an app — without ever speaking with them. The app user needs only to “confirm that [she is] currently located in Illinois and answer a few health questions,” then provide payment information. Planned Parenthood’s app cannot properly screen a woman for a life-threatening ectopic pregnancy, determine the gestational age of her unborn baby, or even confirm if the app user is a woman, let alone a pregnant woman. This development imperils women’s health and safety.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s label for abortion drugs warns that roughly one in 25 women end up in the emergency room after taking these high-risk drugs. It also contains a black-box warning that the drugs present “risks of serious complications,” including “fatal infections and bleeding.” It is no wonder that the FDA requires abortion drugs be “prescribed [only] to women for whom emergency care is available.”
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