It’s incredibly awkward when you’re in an important worldview conversation with a friend, and you don’t know what to say. You can’t figure out the right facts or convincing words to combat their argument, and worse, the conversation ends with you questioning your own beliefs.

First Peter 3:15 says “…always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect.” Though this verse is speaking about sharing the gospel, the principle – always being prepared to make a defense with gentleness and respect – applies to anything we believe.

The Sanctity of Life is one area in which it’s especially important to be prepared. This video about the abortion pill from Live Action is a good starting place to build practical knowledge for your next conversation. Check it out and share the video!

As of early January 2023, Danco Laboratories, the U.S. manufacturer of the abortion pill, announced that the FDA has made changes to its guidelines surrounding the abortion pill. These changes allow pharmacies, from large chains like CVS or Walgreens to small, locally owned businesses, to dispense the pill to anyone with a prescription.

Many women choose the abortion pill (also known as a chemical abortion) because they assume it’s safer and more natural. However, complications occur during chemical abortion four times more frequently than during surgical abortion. According to Dr. Christina Francis, “approximately one in five women will experience a significant complication,” which often must be treated by emergency surgery.

The abortion pill is actually a two-pill regimen made up of different drugs:  Mifepristone, also known as Mifeprex or RU-486, and Misoprostol. When a woman chooses to abort her pre-born baby through a chemical abortion, she first takes Mifeprex. This blocks progesterone, starving the pre-born baby of the nutrients needed to continue developing. One to two days later, she takes Misoprostol, which causes her to deliver her now-dead baby. This part frequently happens in the woman’s own home, so she is responsible for disposing of her pre-born baby’s body, often by flushing it down a toilet.

Unsurprisingly, this causes significant trauma for the woman involved in an abortion. Aside from the moral harm it does to her conscience, seeing her dead child covered in blood and floating in the toilet, often awakens her to the reality of what just happened, causing insurmountable emotional problems she will struggle with for years.

But the emotional trauma resulting from the use of the abortion pill isn’t why it was under guidelines that prevented it from being sold in retail pharmacies. Mifeprex, the first drug in the regimen, is dangerous enough that the FDA gave it REMS status. REMS stands for Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy, which is described by the FDA as, “a drug safety program that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can require for certain medications with serious safety concerns to help ensure the benefits of the medication outweigh its risks. REMS are designed to reinforce medication use behaviors and actions that support the safe use of that medication… REMS focus on preventing, monitoring and/or managing a specific serious risk by informing, educating and/or reinforcing actions to reduce the frequency and/or severity of the event.”

Mifeprex is often dangerous. A few of the possible side effects include:

• Death (a tragic example is this 19-year-old who died after taking the abortion pill)
• Flu or fever-like symptoms
• Hemorrhage
• The need for surgical completion afterwards (the baby didn’t die, or the remains and/or placenta are retained, resulting in a need for surgery)
• Pain in the chest, lower back, side, arms, jaw, or neck
• Infection and possible sepsis
• Prolonged bleeding, from several hours to as long as 30 days

Under the previous REMS guidelines for Mifeprex, women could only receive the pill in person at approved clinics or hospitals that could provide certain medical and safety procedures. But as of January 3rd, 2023, the guidelines have been amended by the FDA so that retail pharmacies who “become certified in the Mifepristone REMS Program” can dispense this highly dangerous pill to anyone with a prescription.

Women in hopeless situations, who believe the lie that the abortion pill is a safe and effective way to deal with a difficult circumstance, are unwittingly walking into a deadly situation. These women desperately need Jesus. This world desperately needs Jesus. The culture of death is so insatiable in its thirst for blood that it’s willing to bypass any concern for human life, and any idea of the sacredness of human life, solely to make death easier, more accessible, and more desirable.

Read more:

Four Doctors Groups Tell Federal Court to Pull Abortion Pill From Market, It’s Dangerous for Women (LifeNews.com)

Most Americans, when correctly informed regarding abortion, oppose it.  It has only been through deception that the abortion lobby has been able to keep abortion legal, but the tide is turning as technology has opened the womb before our eyes.  However, the proponents of abortion miss no opportunity to increase the number of victims and thus we are today faced with the Illinois Democrat led House attempting to hound the unborn to death even into the private spaces of state colleges and universities.  They are seeking to place abortifacients “in an area of campus where students can access the emergency contraception on weekends or after class hours,” making these drugs of death nearly ubiquitous to young college women.  The hatred of the Left for unborn children appears pathological.

While so-called “emergency contraceptives” are promoted as a means of preventing pregnancies, they also act to impede or prevent implantation of a fertilized ovum, should conception occur, thus making them abortifacients as well.

God, however, is avidly prolife.  In Psalm 127 we read that “children are a heritage from the Lord. . . . blessed is the man who has his quiver full of them.”  From the beginning of mankind’s existence we see God’s favor toward reproduction as He commanded Adam and Eve to “be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth. . . .”

For those who love life and children, it is difficult to understand the perspective of those who hate God Christianity and babies.  Just as we find ourselves enjoying what our loved ones enjoy, we also tend to hate the things our enemies favor. Because God loves life, His enemies hate it. Proverbs 8:36 notes that “all those who hate Me love death.” Life, and especially innocent children, apparently reflect God so brightly that the Left hates their very existence and targets them for death. The unborn are not collateral damage in the Left’s quest for equality or freedom, they are the target of a malignant hatred.

Therefore, anyone who loves God and life must oppose abortion and its related evils.

Abortion is evil because it is the taking of an innocent life, period. There is no rebuttal to the factual and scientific evidence that a new human being comes into existence at the moment of conception. Jerome LeJune, considered in his time a leading, if not the leading geneticist in the world, noted that he knew of no geneticist who would disagree with the statement that a new human life began at conception!

Thus, abortion is a scientific and spiritual abomination, but it has other significant moral and ethical implications. It trivializes life by promoting its destruction. It is not surprising that as abortion has become common, life itself at all ages has become less precious. What quantifiable difference is there between a life at 38 weeks after conception and 42 weeks after conception, or for that matter fifty years after conception? The reality of this is seen in the willingness of some leaders to allow the taking of the life of little babies in the hours following delivery, if the mother chooses.  The value of human life is becoming subjective, depending on the opinion of mere people.

Abortion trivializes relationships, as people disconnect sexual activity from childbearing and long-term relationships. It is abundantly clear that sex does not nor can stand alone as a mere bodily function. It is fraught with deep personal attachments, feelings, and emotions, which cannot be turned on or off at will. The real possibility and responsibility of parenting a child that once was a given with sexual activity has been weakened to the point that many young people believe that the two have little or nothing to do with each other; yet, contradicting the voices of the “experts,” sexually active young people do not find themselves liberated, but rather burdened by guilt, estrangement, loneliness, and long-term pain. A life of one-night-stands is neither satisfying nor fulfilling.

Additionally, these young people are finding that establishing long-term trusting relationships has become frustratingly elusive, and for some, impossible. Thus, the one relationship that is, next to a relationship with the Creator, most conducive to one’s long-term wellbeing is being avoided by millions of Americans, with the attendant disfunctions.

Human sexuality is tremendously complex, and while holding the potential of great pleasure, satisfaction, and strengthening a couple’s relationship, it is also fraught with peril. So, great idea here: let’s place abortifacients in vending machines right next to the Twinkies, popcorn, and Tootsie Rolls! That will certainly help facilitate young people’s understanding of the seriously life-altering reality of sexual activity, pregnancy, and abortion!

The fact is, America has created an incoherent common culture. On the one hand we will spend millions of dollars to save the life of one preemie, when the mother wants it. But at the same time, we kill millions of babies in the womb because they are inconvenient to mothers who don’t want them or have been convinced for the moment that a baby is not in their best interest.

There is no explanation for promoting such barbarity other than a deep-seated hatred for the unborn, which can only be attributed to a hatred for mankind in general. Anyone who can see the grisly reality of abortion without a visceral reaction reveals a callous antipathy toward the unborn and distain for women and motherhood.

As horrendous as abortion is one must ask why the urgency to promote it, as HB 4247 indicates? Moreover, why legislatively cap the price of these abortion pills to $40? The message delivered is that every pregnancy is a crisis of vast proportion.

And, putting drugs that can bring an end to a human life in every nook and cranny of our existence is safe, right?  (no irony there!) What could possibly go wrong?  Young women self-diagnosing, no doctors involved.  Nothing of concern here!

Then we look at America’s children. Yeah, I am referring to those who managed to survive the nation’s lethal attacks against children. How does abortion affect them, especially as we make the process as available as a candy bar? Make no mistake. Children are not so naïve as the Left would have us believe, and they are not as resilient as many suggest. The rising depression and suicide rates among America’s children did not happen in a vacuum. How can they not perceive that the nation has put a target on their backs? How can they not wonder whether they might be unwanted, too? Might they see themselves as expendable, just as the preborn are? Abortion providers can rationalize the slaughter all they want, but children are not sophisticated enough to manipulate facts so as to rationalize away the reality of babies dying all around them. Abortion is itself an abominable abuse, it is only made worse by the fact that the holocaust cannot be hidden from the eyes and hearts of the surviving children.

Finally, because abortion is evil, to force opponents to participate in it is an egregious violation of liberty and conscience. It is bad enough to hinder people from doing what they want to do, it is evil of a different class to force them to participate in an act they abhor, that of snuffing out the lives of innocent children.

Such wickedness must be opposed at all cost.

Take ACTION: Click HERE to contact your local state senator to let him/her know that you do not want your tax dollars used to subsidize emergency contraceptives on college campuses. Moreover, it is absolutely foolish to encourage risky sexual behavior in young people.

This bill passed out of the Illinois House on March 3rd by a vote of 62-38 with two voting present. If you agree with us that that HB 4247 is dangerous and threatens the well-being of our young people, please help us stop this bill in the Illinois Senate by contacting your state senator right away.

In many places of employment a gigantic board is posted listing the shortages and outages of essential medications, such as antibiotics, pain relievers, anesthetics and drugs for sedation. This problem has been significant for years, and has worsened considerably in the last year, impeding pharmacists’ ability to provide vital care for our patients. The FDA has placed the approval of this “chemical cousin” analog of mifepristone (sometimes known by its antiquated experimental name, RU 486) ahead of the need to address this severe health care issue.

Our disgust for the deadly FDA action is profound and beyond the ability to verbalize. Ulipristal acetate, according to its own developers, can kill embryos and feti. It is marketed in Europe as EllaOne® . The low dose 30mg form of Ella®, has been prioritized for approval by the US FDA, which would have served the citizens of the US better by adequately addressing the current, rolling shortages of truly lifesaving and essential medications, rather than chemicals whose main intent is to snuff out a nascent life in the first few weeks of existence.

The embryocidal doses of ulipristal acetate may now be stockpiled and accumulated by prescribers or patients for “medical” chemical abortions at home, sidestepping the so-called regulation of mifepristone/misoprostil (the other abortion drug brought to the US in the 1990s by the Population Council and whose $4 million experimentation bill was entirely footed by mega-billionaire Warren Buffett). This will lead to additional life-endangering problems for the targeted adolescent girls and women, as well as giving continued cover for sexual predators of underage girls and incestuous abusive relationships.

The FDA is expected to continue in its long tradition of relegating females to lowest class health care status. PFLI rounded and vehemently denounces and condemns the FDA for this inappropriate use of its drug regulatory power to destroy life rather than approve and regulate medicines which actually are life-saving and preserve health.