{"id":223547,"date":"2025-09-13T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/223547\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T12:31:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T12:31:10","slug":"world-health-organization-promotes-abortion-drugs-on-essential-medicines-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/223547\/","title":{"rendered":"World Health Organization promotes abortion drugs on essential medicines list"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n \"Kate
\n <\/a><\/p>\n

By Kate Qui\u00f1ones<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 \/
\n 17:34 pm<\/p>\n

Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.<\/p>\n

WHO promotes abortion drugs on essential medicines list<\/p>\n

Pro-life leaders are expressing concern after the inclusion of abortion drugs in the World Health Organization (WHO)\u2019s latest annual list of essential medicines, noting that the drugs can be \u201cdangerous.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Model List of Essential Medicines 2025<\/a>, released on \u201cInternational Safe Abortion Day,\u201d had a section dedicated to abortion drugs, which for the first time did not include the caveat that these medicines are not legal or culturally acceptable everywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to WHO, \u201cthe list no longer carries the boxed caveat, in place since 2005, that singled out these medicines as only to be used where legally permitted or culturally acceptable.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Dr. Ingrid Skop, vice president and director of medical affairs for Charlotte Lozier Institute and a board-certified OB-GYN, expressed concern that these drugs were being recommended for use around the world, noting that abortion drugs \u201chave a complication rate<\/a> four times higher than surgical abortion.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs many as 1 in 5 women will suffer a complication and 1 in 20 will require surgical completion,\u201d Skop said. \u201cAlso, a recent study<\/a> found that more than a third of women who used abortion drugs were unprepared for the amount of pain and bleeding they encountered.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cYet, the WHO is recommending them for use in Third World countries with poor health care systems, where emergency care may be limited or nonexistent,\u201d Skop continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Calling the action a part of WHO\u2019s \u201cpopulation control and eugenic agenda,\u201d Skop urged WHO to \u201cinstead devote more attention to helping countries obtain the resources they need to impact maternal mortality, such as blood-banking for hemorrhage and antibiotics and critical care for infections.\u201d<\/p>\n

Michael New, a senior associate scholar at Charlotte Lozier Institute and assistant professor of practice at The Catholic University of America, added that the WHO\u2019s decision was \u201cdisappointing\u201d but \u201cunsurprising.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe World Health Organization has always had a very strong pro-abortion bias,\u201d New said, noting that the group\u2019s website calls abortion a \u201ccritical public health and human rights issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

New also noted that WHO\u2019s website \u201cwrongly claims that \u2018evidence shows that restricting access to abortions does not reduce the number of abortions\u2019 even though many, many studies show the incidence of abortion is impacted by its legal status.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Political Affairs Communications Director Kelsey Pritchard expressed gratitude that the U.S. withdrew<\/a> from WHO in January.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThank goodness President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the pro-abortion WHO, and they keep proving that decision right,\u201d she said. \u201cThe abortion industry \u2014 including foreign, criminal abortion drug rings \u2014 is flooding every state with these drugs whether it is legal or not.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pritchard also noted that abortion drugs can be \u201cdangerous.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA mounting body of scientific evidence<\/a> and real-life horror stories<\/a> show abortion drugs are far more dangerous than advertised, exposing the serious risks they pose to women and girls as well as unborn children,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWeek after week these dangerous drugs cause more tragedies: Women coerced and poisoned, girls rushed to the ER, mothers dying along with their babies \u2014 all while the abortion industry profits from deception and abusers benefit from unfettered drug access,\u201d Pritchard continued.<\/p>\n

Pritchard anticipated the FDA\u2019s review of the drug, saying that \u201cwe\u2019re confident once the evidence is examined, it will be undeniable how harmful these drugs truly are.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

California bill allowing anonymous abortion prescriptions awaits signature\u00a0<\/p>\n

A California bill that would allow health care providers to anonymously prescribe abortion drugs could soon become law<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The law would allow a pharmacist to dispense abortion drugs \u201cwithout the name of the patient, the name of the prescriber, or the name and address of the pharmacy, subject to specified requirements,\u201d according to the bill\u2019s text.<\/a><\/p>\n

The law would allow abortionists to anonymously mail abortion medication to patients in California and in the rest of the U.S., even to states where these abortion drugs are illegal. This could make it harder for states to build legal cases against abortionists operating under shield laws.<\/p>\n

New York attorney general intervenes in landmark legal battle over abortion shield laws<\/p>\n

Attorney General Letitia James is intervening in a landmark case involving a New York abortionist who allegedly prescribed abortion pills to a patient in Texas, where the drugs are illegal.\u00a0<\/p>\n

James sent a letter to the state Supreme Court judge in Ulster County, New York, saying she has the authority to enforce the state\u2019s shield law \u2014 a law designed to protect abortionists who violate the laws of other states.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The abortion shield law prohibits state officials from cooperating with investigations into abortionists for out-of-state abortions, even when abortion drugs are illegal in those states.<\/p>\n

The legal battle is among the first challenges to New York\u2019s 2023 shield law.<\/p>\n


\n \"Kate
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Kate Qui\u00f1ones is a staff writer for Catholic News Agency and a fellow of the College Fix. She has been published by the Wall Street Journal, the Denver Catholic Register, and CatholicVote, and she graduated from Hillsdale College. She lives in Colorado with her husband.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Kate Qui\u00f1ones CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 \/ 17:34 pm Here is a roundup of recent pro-life…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":223548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[121289,121290,17159,210,1060,101108,67,132,68,26413],"class_list":{"0":"post-223547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-abortion-drugs","9":"tag-abortion-shield-laws","10":"tag-catholic-news","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-medication","13":"tag-pro-life","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-world-health-organization"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115197003961973798","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}