A shocking new study has uncovered that an increasing number of American women who go to a hospital emergency department (ED) for complications arising from their ingestion of abortion pills are treated for a “miscarriage” – meaning their abortion is miscoded or concealed.
The data was compiled by the US Center for Medicaid and Medicaid Services from 2016 to 2021.
The analysis report is a collaboration between the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of the pro-life advocacy organisation Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, and researchers at the University of North Carolina, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Florida-based Elliott Institute.
Its peer-reviewed study found that more than 79% of ED visits after abortion drug use were miscoded, and therefore did not mention the connection to “a dangerously failed abortion attempt.”
“IT’S A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS”
“When abortion-related emergencies are disguised as miscarriages, it impairs a doctor’s ability to make informed, evidence-based decisions,” said Dr. James Studnicki, vice president and director of data analytics at the Charlotte Lozier Institute.
“That isn’t just a documentation error. it’s a public health crisis,” he declared.
The study reviewed nearly 29,000 ED visits within 30 days of a surgical or drug-induced abortion.
Researchers then determined whether each visit was related to the abortion and whether it was accurately coded as abortion-related or misclassified as a miscarriage.
“MISCODED ABORTION COMPLICATIONS REMAIN INVISIBLE”
“These findings indicate there is an increasing likelihood that, should the woman require treatment following the abortion, the complication or adverse event is [wrongly] attributed to a spontaneous abortion or miscarriage and not the induced abortion,” the report concluded.
“Further, on average, these miscoded visits require more extensive treatment than [emergency] visits which are accurately coded.”
“Miscoding via concealment of the abortion could result in delay of the delivery of necessary care — or otherwise influence or misdirect important decisions in the management of the patient’s condition.”
“These miscoded abortion complications remain invisible to research scientists resulting in a large underestimation of actual medical abortion complications.”
“PRO-ABORTION PROVIDERS ENCOURAGE PATIENTS TO WITHHOLD THEIR MEDICAL HISTORY”
The Charlotte Lozier Institute contends that the findings are especially troubling due to a common practice by abortionists and pro-abortion groups to encourage women to withhold their abortion history in emergency department settings.
“Currently, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists advises clinicians not to ask or document abortion drug use, citing concerns over legal risk — a claim not supported by state laws, which uniformly exempt women from any prosecution,” the Institute explained.
“This guidance defies standard medical practice.”
“In no other area of health care are patients told to lie or omit their critical medical history, especially in emergency scenarios where lives and outcomes rely on accurate information.”
CONCERNS OVER ABORTION DRUG MIFEPRISTONE
The report noted that the vast majority (60%) of induced abortions occurring within 70 days of gestation are carried out with the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in the United States.
A study by the Ethics and Public Policy Center found that among more than 800,000 women who were prescribed mifepristone, 11% had serious, adverse side effects from the drug.
They included sepsis, infection and haemorrhaging within 45 days of taking the drug.
That figure is 22 times higher than the original summary figure of “less than 0.5 percent” in clinical trials, as reported on the drug label.
“In light of this research, we urge the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reinstate stronger patient safety protocols and reconsider its approval of mifepristone altogether,” urged the study’s authors.
“Simply stated, mifepristone, as used in real-world conditions, is not safe and effective,” they added.
