Recordings catch abortion activist coaching college women how to get illegal abortions
Journalist Emma Arns secretly recorded the audio with the Campus Reform has revealed that a student group at the University of Tennessee hosted an “Abortion Pill Practice” aimed at teaching students how to obtain abortion pills despite state laws that protecting preborn children from abortion.
The group, The University of Tennessee’s Women’s Coordinating Council, brought in Maxine Carwile — a former Planned Parenthood employee and the director of programs for the Abortion Access Front — to teach a course from the pro-abortion organization “Self-Managed Abortions ; Safe and Supported” (SASS). Carwile said learning to perform a self-managed abortion is “important because abortion in a clinic is now illegal in Tennessee.”
He said, “It’s not really said in Tennessee law that terminating a pregnancy alone is illegal, but this does not mean that we should assume that it is also legal.” He cites a state law from the 1800s that prohibits the act of attempting to induce a miscarriage.
“Trust no one”
Several times throughout her speech, Carwile advised the students that the “most important thing in the world is whether someone terminates their own pregnancy or helps someone terminate their own pregnancy, they have to shut their mouths completely. Don’t trust anyone, really.”
He noted that women may go to the hospital after taking abortion pills out of concern about how much they are bleeding or any other complications they may be experiencing. In those cases, he fears that doctors or other medical personnel will violate patient/doctor privacy laws and call the police. While pro-abortion propaganda has long held that an abortion is between a woman and her doctor, Carwile now sees fit to make enemies of doctors – the very people who should be helping women who survive and recover from abortion complications.
“So medical professionals, above all, shouldn’t confess,” Carwile said. “… A medical abortion through pills is exactly the same as a miscarriage. The course of treatment for any complications is exactly the same as for a miscarriage so the most important thing for anyone to know is to repeatedly tell any medical professionals, family, friends, anyone at all, ‘I’m having a miscarriage . ‘”
Of course, it also skews the reporting of abortion statistics and complications, instead attributing those complications to natural miscarriages — but this seems of little consequence to abortion advocates.
Even though the woman is having an allergic reaction to the abortion pills, Carwile urges them no to tell medical professionals that they are taking abortion drugs. He also recommended that they swallow the misoprostol instead of inserting it into the vagina – but no because vaginal insertion may increase the risk of infection for the woman (as some results suggest). She is more concerned about hospital staff discovering residue from drugs during a pelvic exam because that would be “evidence” of an illegal abortion.
Is ordering abortion pills a “good miracle”?
Carwile said today’s post-Roe America “isn’t like the days before Roe v. Wade where the only options were more harmful ones like coat hangers or bleach or knitting needles. We have abortion pills that it’s so accessible and cheap, if not free, and ordering online is a wonderful miracle. We have a medically safe way for people to end their pregnancies on their own.”
But research has shown that the abortion pill is four times more dangerous for women than a first-trimester surgical abortion. In addition, three separate studies found that about six percent of women who take the abortion pill require an emergency room visit or urgent care for complications. Both women shared the physical and emotional trauma that taking the abortion pill caused them.
Abortion pill safety myths
Carwile went on to verbally attack pregnancy resource centers (PRCs) and needlessly warn attendees against the Abortion Pill Reversal process, calling pro-life pregnancy centers “the devil” and saying ” he hates them.”
He then shared a phone app and website that discussed the protocol for using the abortion pill after 12 weeks (the abortion pill was originally approved by the FDA for use up to seven weeks and was never approved by the FDA for more than 10 weeks ). He warned that using the abortion pill after 12 weeks is “not advised” because “then the person has to ask complex questions like, ‘What if the pregnancy is too big to flush down the toilet? can people see the visible parts of the body during pregnancy? How will they feel?’ And also, pushing a larger pregnancy, it’s harder on the body….so not advised, but still an option.” (emphasized)
Carwile said that if the woman only took mifepristone and then changed her mind, it could be “very dangerous” for her and she should take misoprostol to complete the abortion. But the risks of mifepristone exist, with or without misoprostol. He said the Abortion Pill Reversal is an attempt by pregnancy centers to appear “more legitimate and they don’t seem to care that they’re actually putting people’s lives at risk.”
But there appears to be no evidence that a woman has died from taking short-term progesterone, which has been used for years to help keep women pregnant. endangered of miscarriage.
However, on January 4, 2023, the FDA updated its statistics on the abortion pill, writing that “As of June 30, 2022, there were 28 death reports in patients associated with mifepristone since the product was approved in September 2000, including two cases of ectopic pregnancy (a pregnancy located outside the womb, such as in the fallopian tubes) resulting in death; and some fatal cases of severe systemic infection (also called sepsis).”*
Just last year, a young mother died of sepsis after getting the abortion pill at Planned Parenthood.
Criminal behavior
Carwile encourages students to break the law, arguing that it is not illegal order pills, but what one does with them is legal or illegal. However, he advises students to use a VPN or a secure web browser to cover their tracks when ordering abortion pills. As an example, he refers to a case in Nebraska where Facebook messages was used to arrest a mother who ordered abortion pills for her daughter. His daughter is 23 weeks pregnant at the time she took the abortion pills — meaning the baby would survive, and late-gestation abortions are illegal. After the baby was born, they put it in a plastic bag, threw the child’s body in the car, and then set it on fire before burying it.
Jane Gann, a freshman at the university, attended the “Abortion Pill Training,” and told Campus Reform that Carwile’s rhetoric “victimizes college-age girls.”
He added, “The promotion of potentially dangerous drugs and blatant recommendations to lie to licensed doctors to avoid the law seriously harms young women on campus who may be pregnant and seek help.”
*FDA HAS RECEIVED REPORTS OF SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS IN PATIENTS TAKING MIFEPRISTONE. AS OF JUNE 30, 2022, THERE HAVE BEEN 28 REPORTS OF DEATHS IN PATIENTS TAKEN TO MIFEPRISTONE SINCE THE PRODUCT WAS APPROVED IN SEPTEMBER 2000, INCLUDING TWO CASES OF ECTOPIC PREGNANCY (A PREGNANCY FLOCATED) ULTING IN DEATH; AND SOME FATAL CASES OF SEVERE SYSTEMIC INFECTION (ALSO CALLED SEPSIS). ADVERSE EVENTS ARE UNCERTAINLY CAUSED BY MIFEPRISTONE BECAUSE OF THE CONCOMITANT USE OF OTHER MEDICINES, OTHER MEDICAL OR SURGICAL TREATMENTS, CO-EXISTING MEDICAL CONDITIONS, AND INFORMATION GAPS REGARDING THE PATIENT’S HEALTH STATUS AND THE HEALTH STATUS OF THE PATIENT. A SUMMARY REPORT OF ADVERSE EVENTS TRANSLATING DATA AS OF JUNE 30, 2022, ISHERE. THE FDA HAS REVIEWED THIS INFORMATION AND HAS NOT IDENTIFIED ANY NEW SAFETY SIGNALS. FDA INTENDS TO UPDATE THIS SUMMARY REPORT AS APPROPRIATE.
