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Why would they give away $2 million worth of abortion pills?
The answer is, "So the state stockpile doesn’t go to waste. "
Normally, drug dealers go to jail. But in Washington, the state’s own Department of Corrections (DOC) could become the cheapest dealer on the block. It's poison of choice? Deadly chemical abortion pills.
Be informed, not misled.
Kristan Hawkins is president of Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action, with more than 1,600 groups on middle and high school, college and university, medical and law school campuses in all 50 states.
She is more than a little upset over what Washington State is doing in regard to putting abortion pills in the hands of everyone and anyone who wants one.
"In February," she says, "the Washington state legislature approved legislation that would allow its DOC to sell its stockpile of abortion pills below cost, and last week, the state’s House speaker signed the legislation — Democrat Gov. Bob Ferguson is soon expected to sign the bill into law."
If enacted, the legislation would let the DOC essentially give away its abortion pills (more than 155,000 doses worth) at as low a price as it wants, setting it up to become what one Republican state senator described as the “free-abortion-pill provider for the entire country."
The proposal comes as Washington looks to distribute its current stockpile of medication, which former Gov. Jay Inslee purchased as mifepristone faced legal challenges in federal court.
In April 2023, Inslee directed the Department of Corrections to use its pharmacy license to purchase 30,000 doses of mifepristone. Shortly before he left office, he directed the DOC to purchase an additional 17,600 doses of mifepristone and 155,000 doses of misoprostol.
The leftist-led state government knows exactly what they want to do with the pills.
The problem is how?
“Does Washington state have a pile of money somewhere that I am not seeing?” Sen. Leonard Christian, R-Spokane Valley, said. “As long as Corrections keeps buying excessive quantities of abortion pills, this bill could make Washington state the free-abortion-bill provider for the entire country.”
Christian described the proposal as a 'reckless bill' that would be “an open-ended checkbook for the entire country.”
“I know it’s presented as a sheep, but no, it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing,” Christian said.
Hawkins says, "Last September, the state announced its plans to incinerate the original 30,000 doses — making the purchase a complete waste of $1,275,000."
She says being a pro-lifer would have been her choice. But apparently that's not going to happen.
The Left is obsessed with killing unwanted unborn babies.
What's worse? The original decision to purchase the pills, or the new plan to give them away like candy?
Deadly for Babies, Risky for Women.
Hawkins says:
The original purchase reflects nothing less than an atrocious squandering of taxpayer dollars on a dangerous drug that (aside from the obvious killing of babies) has serious risks for both women and the environment.
Studies show that chemical abortion pills have a complication rate four times higher than that of surgical abortion, with as many as one in five women suffering a complication. As many as 15 percent of women experience hemorrhage after taking chemical abortion pills; 2 percent suffer infections. Studies have even reported a 500-percent increase in abortion-related emergency room visits with the increased use of the drugs.
RE: The environment.
Not only does chemical abortion harm women, but it could pose serious threats to the environment. Thanks to chemical abortion pills, more than 50 tons of chemically tainted waste — including tissue from aborted preborn babies — are flushed into American waterways every year. Yet there hasn’t been a single study on the environmental consequences of that waste in the last 30 years, during which the number of chemical abortions has increased by more than 800 percent.
I thought leftists were pro-environment.
Not when it comes to choosing between abortion on demand or clean water.
In 2001, the year after mifepristone was approved, chemical abortions made up just 6% of overall abortions, with 12,712 women receiving chemical abortion pills at Planned Parenthood sites that year.
Twenty-two years later, in 2023, estimates suggested a full 642,700 chemical abortions were performed in the U.S., 63% of overall abortions.
That’s almost 10 times the number of chemical abortions as in 2001 — and almost 10 times the amount of chemical waste produced.
But, since the 1996 study, the FDA hasn’t bothered to reevaluate the potential dangers this waste could pose to endangered species — or humans.
Today, 50+ tons of chemical waste is being flushed into our waterways every year — an amount exponentially greater than that the FDA determined was safe for endangered species or humans. It’s beyond time for the FDA to conduct testing to determine the exact consequences of that waste.
Takeaway
Hawkins says, "In summary, Washington state spent $2 million of taxpayer funds — through questionable channels, one might add — to purchase a sizable amount of a risky, under-studied, unsafe drug. And that’s ignoring the grotesque reality of a state stocking up on a drug whose sole purpose is to destroy the state’s own preborn citizens."
She adds, "But the new legislation is just as bad. Unable to sell the pills and recover its money, the state is now throwing in the towel and admitting it wasted taxpayer dollars. Its new plan? To essentially flood the market with dirt-cheap, deadly drugs, just like normal drug traffickers do with fentanyl. That doesn’t reflect the actions of a state that cares for its citizens."
Nor does it reflect a state with any moral high ground.
Be Informed. Be Discerning. Be Vigilant. Be Engaged. Be Prayerful.
