Katie Daniel of Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America tells AFN the post-mifepristone death of 24-year-old Alyona Kenna Dixon of Nevada has caused the issue to resurface.
According to her family, Dixon was forced to seek emergency medical treatment four days after her abortion at Planned Parenthood. She went septic and died on September 28, 2022. The family is now suing the Las Vegas hospital that treated her, saying it did not provide adequate medical care for the abortion complications.
"We're hearing about this a year after it happened, which means it's pretty unlikely that this was reported to the proper channels," Daniel begins. "The FDA says it still wants to know when women die from these dangerous drugs, but we have no way of knowing whether that was actually reported by the Planned Parenthood that wrote the prescription."
The drug mifepristone is typically used with a second drug, misoprostol, for the abortion regimen that is now used to end the lives of nearly half a million U.S. babies every year, according to the Guttmacher Institute. In the U.S., the FDA recommends their use up to 10 weeks of pregnancy, but some abortion businesses sell them later in pregnancy. Dixon was reportedly eight weeks along.
Daniel notes that federal data shows the rate of abortion pill-related emergency room visits rose more than 500% over 15 years, meaning potentially thousands of women are injured by mifepristone every year.
"Even worse, if her complications are miscoded in the ER as a natural miscarriage, she is more than twice as likely to be admitted for surgery," the pro-lifer adds.
Whether Planned Parenthood told Dixon that death was a possible complication before she took the abortion pills is also unknown. But Daniel says the young woman's grieving family deserves to know. The American people do as well.
"We have no idea whether this was an isolated case, whether other women have died or been sent to the emergency room from that Planned Parenthood or other locations in the state," the pro-lifer poses. "This is why our team has worked for years to try to get a bill through Congress that would gather this information nationally so that the public can understand the true danger of these drugs."
Democrats and the abortion lobby, however, have blocked the attempts to pass that. Meanwhile, at least 28 women have accompanied their preborn babies in death because of the abortion pills.
