A woman is prepared to undergo a chemical abortion… but only if the pills are gluten-free, organic, and contain no animal products.
This is the set-up for Live Action’s newest satire video, “Organic Abortion Pills At CVS,” which skewers the idea of worrying about what abortion pills are made of, while ignoring what they actually do.
In the video, a woman picks up her prescription from a pharmacist with a concerned look on her face. The pharmacy technician hands her a bag, and quietly tells her that there are two things in the bag: mifepristone and misoprostol. Together, these drugs make up the abortion pill regimen; mifepristone slowly starves the preborn child of oxygen and nutrients by blocking the hormong progesterone, and misoprostol forces contractions so the woman will expel the body of her preborn baby.
Still looking concerned, the woman slowly takes the bag. “These are the abortion pills, right?” she whispers, and then, with more surety, says, “Actually… I’m having second thoughts.”
But her doubts aren’t about the abortion itself.
“Are these organic?” she asks. “Organic. Like made without preservatives and chemicals and stuff?”
The confused pharmacy technician responds, “Those are abortion pills.”
The customer, missing the technician’s point, continued by saying she would never put anything “toxic” into her body, asking if there is a “homeopathic version” — and she’s just getting started:
Still confused, the technician asks, “You know what those pills do… right?” But the customer still doesn’t seem to get it.
“Obviously! I just want to make sure that they are all natural and don’t have any animal products,” she responds. “Because I could never consume anything that would harm an animal. Do you know if there was any slave labor or sweatshops involved in the manufacturing of these? Because I could never consume a product that involved a violation of human rights! Or especially any product manufactured using child labor. I could just never contribute to the harming of a child! It is an atrocity that so many of our everyday products — some of those products right here, even at CVS — contribute to the harming of the weakest and most defenseless human beings.”
CVS, along with other pharmacy chains, stated that it would seek certification to dispense abortion pills after the FDA approved them to be distributed at retail pharmacies.
In addition to taking the life of a preborn child, chemical abortions can have numerous dangerous complications, have been found to be four times more dangerous than surgical abortions, and have been linked to a large increase in ER visits.
Clearly at the end of her rope, the pharmacy technician decides to school the customer.
“OK, so, you really, really need to make sure you understand what those pills actually do,” she says. “You are pregnant. With a child. Embryo, fetus, whatever — it’s your child. Those pills are going to kill that child, and expel that child from your body in a huge amount of blood. You very well may see your dead baby when it comes out. Got it?”
Looking stunned, the customer slowly nods… only to ask, “Do you know if these pills are gluten-free?”
Since the announcement of the decision to allow abortion pills to be dispensed at businesses like CVS and Walgreens, the pro-life movement has been urging the corporations to stop dealing in the business of death. At this point, according to Live Action research fellow Carole Novielli, “it remains unclear whether any retail pharmacies have been certified to dispense the drugs,” and that includes CVS. She writes, “Spokesperson Amy Thibaut told multiple media outlets that CVS plans to become certified to dispense the abortion drug in their pharmacies, but as of January of this year could not provide details about when they expect to be able to offer the pills.”
Health care is meant to heal, not kill, and retail pharmacies should not be selling drugs that intentionally kill human beings.
