Thread by @LozierInstitute

THREAD: Even @MotherJones is saying it: Big Abortion is a big business. And profits are high.

Some key points from their report: “The abortion pill’s secret money men”
motherjones.com/politics/2023/…
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"The pill presented an obvious financial opportunity: the rare sort of drug that they’d never have trouble selling, for a condition that would never cease to exist."
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Development of the pills “had the trappings of a CIA operation”

It was so secretive the abortion pill’s backers rented a warehouse and agreed to tell anyone who asked that they were working on a new cancer treatment (the irony is not lost on us).
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They contacted the Population Council (a Rockefeller-founded org aiming to reduce global population growth). It was trying to bring RU-486, the French version of the pill, to the US.

Its distributor, Danco Labs, would be the only US distributor of abortion pills until 2019.
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Testing began.

It doesn’t involve a vacuum aspiration machine, whose suction “feels like you’re getting the life sucked out of you.” (literally)

But the abortion pill is neither risk-free nor painless.
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Despite claims – including the president’s – that the abortion pill regimen is safe, the rate of complications for chemical abortion dwarf those of surgical abortion: lozierinstitute.org/president-bide…
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In fact, chemical has over 4x the complication rate of surgical abortion, and chemical abortions are more than 50% more likely than surgical abortions to lead to an ER visit within a month.
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Meanwhile, the individuals who invested in the abortion pill’s development and distribution have registered profits in the tens of millions.
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And now they’re fighting for the money among themselves.

The court filings show the AVERAGE return on investment for those who invested in Danco was ~452% over 23 years.
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How did they get here? They recruited celebrities to back the project.

“The pill presented an obvious financial opportunity: the rare sort of drug that they’d never have trouble selling, for a condition that would never cease to exist.”
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They lobbied the FDA to approve (and then deregulate) the abortion pill regimen.

Ignoring the known risks, they promoted it to women as a safer, more convenient alternative to surgical abortion (it’s neither).
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Ignoring comprehensive international studies on the harms of the abortion pill, they put profits ahead of women's health

Get the facts about chemical abortion at abortiondrugfacts.org
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