The Abortion Pill Killed These Women. Its Supporters Blamed Pro-Lifers

It takes a species of chutzpah rarely found outside of liberal and progressive politics to blame the harm done by your own policies on the people who oppose them. But that’s exactly what Kamala Harris and other pro-abortion politicians and journalists are doing right now with the deaths of Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller. Both women died of complications after taking the abortion pill — and, worse, taking it without the medical supervision that was required by the FDA until the Obama and Biden-Harris administrations stripped away those safeguards. In Miller’s case, the pill was shipped by mail in violation of a federal statute that the Biden-Harris administration refuses to enforce.

There ought to be no question about whose hands are marked with the blood of these two women. Rather than face any introspection about the costs of their determination to promote abortion at all hazards, Harris and pro-abortion journalists instead say that deaths traceable to the abortion pill should be blamed on pro-life laws. Not only are these people inverting reality; they are flatly misrepresenting the law. This is falsehood from top to bottom.

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It takes a species of chutzpah rarely found outside of liberal and progressive politics to blame the harm done by your own policies on the people who oppose them. But that’s exactly what Kamala Harris and other pro-abortion politicians and journalists are doing right now with the deaths of Amber Nicole Thurman and Candi Miller. Both women died of complications after taking the abortion pill — and, worse, taking it without the medical supervision that was required by the FDA until the Obama and Biden-Harris administrations stripped away those safeguards. In Miller’s case, the pill was shipped by mail in violation of a federal statute that the Biden-Harris administration refuses to enforce.

There ought to be no question about whose hands are marked with the blood of these two women. Rather than face any introspection about the costs of their determination to promote abortion at all hazards, Harris and pro-abortion journalists instead say that deaths traceable to the abortion pill should be blamed on pro-life laws. Not only are these people inverting reality; they are flatly misrepresenting the law. This is falsehood from top to bottom.