Physicians: Ruling banning Abortion Pill could harm Women experiencing Life-threatening Miscarriages

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Dr. Deborah Nucatola, chief medical officer for Planned Parenthood Great Northwest Hawaii, Alaska, Indiana and Kentucky, has practiced abortion care in nine states for more than 25 years, which includes a stretch of about five years before mifepristone.
47% : Time is the most important factor when it comes to optimizing women's recovery from spontaneous or induced abortion, Nucatola said.
47% :"We became very concerned that there were legislative advances to make chemical abortion pills the preeminent type of abortion that's offered in our country," Hawkins said.
46% : Some doctors, like Colson, plan to recommend misoprostol alone for patients who want or can only access abortion via medication - something OB-GYNs sometimes did before the FDA approved mifepristone in 2000.
42% : Students for Life of America (SFLA) - a national group that fights against abortion and birth control access on college campuses - has for years campaigned against mifepristone and against the FDA's loosening of restrictions, which most recently included allowing retail pharmacies to dispense the medication abortion regimen directly to patients.
41% : "And for folks that are advocates of banning abortion, that means not getting the standard of care for an abortion, but the unintended consequence is for miscarriage management as well."
39% : And for folks that are advocates of banning abortion, that means not getting the standard of care for an abortion, but the unintended consequence is for miscarriage management as well".
36% : "Making mifepristone unavailable nationwide -- even in states where abortion remains legal -- will impose a severe, almost unimaginable cost on pregnant people throughout the United States," write the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the other medical and public health societies in its brief.

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