Comment from James Jones
AnonymousOpposeAdvocacy
Summary: The Catholic Medical Association opposes the petition to reduce or eliminate FDA safety regulations on mifepristone, arguing that such changes would exacerbate risks to women's health and violate ethical standards. They advocate for strengthening current safeguards, including mandatory in-person consultations and more comprehensive reporting of adverse effects.
I am an emergency medicine physician who is currently active duty military. Telemedicine abortion has killed and maimed countless lives. The risks of mifepristone in later term pregnancy are underestimated due to mischaracterization within medicine as spontaneous miscarriage. Recent literature has suggested that the complication rate is over 10%. This represents a significant harm to the general public as more women will seek emergency care in an already overwhelmed system. Emergency Room boarding will be worsened by increased use of telemedicine abortifacients where inappropriate attempts to induce fetal demise will result in increased incomplete abortions, septic abortions, and post partum hemorrhage. The death of Amber Thurman is an example of the harms levied against women by abortion. Additional risks to the public include poisonings of pregnant women such as the criminal case of Christopher Cooprider. This drug must be regulated to protect the public from mismanagement and foreseeable harm.