Planned Parenthood Lied To Women About Abortion Pill Dangers To Boost Revenue, Lawsuit Alleges

Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey sued Planned Parenthood on Wednesday for allegedly misleading women about the abortion pill’s dangers.

The abortion provider makes “brazenly false” claims about the abortion pill, mifepristone, to boost revenue, putting women at risk by suggesting it is “safer than many other medicines like penicillin, Tylenol, and Viagra,” the lawsuit alleges.

“The national Planned Parenthood organization is actively endangering the lives of women and girls across the country by spreading lies and disinformation about the powerful chemical abortion drug,” Bailey said in a statement. “The facts are clear: more than 4.5 percent of women who take this dangerous drug end up in the emergency room, yet Planned Parenthood compares it to Tylenol. This is a blatant violation of Missouri law, and I will not allow a death factory to lie to Missouri women in pursuit of its radical agenda.”

Planned Parenthood did not respond to a request for comment.

The state is seeking over $1.8 million in civil penalties, $1,000 in damages for each Missouri woman supplied pills by the organization and reimbursement for mifepristone-related emergency care covered using taxpayer dollars, according to the release. The case claims Planned Parenthood violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act.

There is no evidence to support the popular claim that mifepristone is safer than Tylenol, which relies on “inappropriate comparisons” in death rates between the drugs, according to a Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) study cited in the lawsuit.