Planned Parenthood has initiated an online campaign to teach people about ‘at-home abortion’ incentivizing women with the “abortion pill,” the Center for Human and Family Rights reports, spurring March for Life to criticize the move as it puts women’s health in jeopardy.

"Planned Parenthood continues to put women's lives at risk as it facilitates the sale of illegal abortion pills,” March for Life said in a tweet. March for Life is a pro-life group that organizes marches across the country, “The abortion company even instructs women to lie to healthcare providers if they experience complications from a self-induced abortion.”

The Planned Parenthood online course is promoting HowToUseAbortionPill.org, run by anonymous non-profit organizations. The website advises women to dispose of “anything recognizable,” no matter the state or country’s abortion laws, C-Fam says in its report.

The site credits the World Health Organization (WHO), which, according to its “self-care guidance,” encourages women to disregard the legal ramifications of their actions, the article continues.

The International Planned Parenthood Federation is the largest provider of abortions. It also advocates for lenient abortion laws nationwide and has claimed credit for “successfully advocat[ing] for the country registration of medical abortion drugs and for their inclusion into national essential medicine lists.”

The WHO’s “global essential medicines list” includes the abortion pill. It was deemed a “core” medicine in 2019, removing “a caveat saying it should be used with close medical supervision.”

The “abortion pill” typically consists of five pills: one mifepristone pill and four misoprostol pills, A Woman’s Choice says on its website. For up to four weeks after the pills are taken, women may experience cramping, bleeding, nausea, vomiting, fever, chills, diarrhea and headaches. Some women report expelling large blood clots, along with severe abdominal and back pain or continued pregnancy.

Psychological side effects are more common than the physical side ones. These include depression, regret, guilt, anger, loneliness, nightmares, loss of self-confidence, relationship problems and suicidal thoughts, the website says, citing the American Pregnancy Association. Some women also experience fatal bacterial infections or suffer deadly toxic shock as a result of abortion pills.

An analysis of Medicaid data found that emergency room visits related to medical abortions increased by 500% between 2002 and 2015, the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) reported, with CLI Vice President of Data Analytics Dr. James Studnicki offering up his interpretation of the numbers.

“The safety of chemical abortion is greatly exaggerated,” Studnicki said. “In fact, the increasing dominance of chemical abortion and its disproportionate contribution to emergency room morbidity is a serious public health threat, and the real-world data suggests the threat is growing. Women are far more likely to visit the emergency room following a chemical rather than surgical abortion. The rate of these emergency room visits is growing remarkably fast. It is therefore terrifying that the FDA is actively being pressured to eliminate longstanding public health safeguards on the abortion pill. This comprehensive data advocates for the FDA to strengthen, rather than weaken, medical oversight of chemical abortion.”

The Catholic Church has long stood against abortion, regardless of evolving biological theories about when exactly life begins. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) refers to the Catechism for guidance on the topic. It says: "Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law" (No. 2271).

Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron released a statement in June after the Supreme Court issued its Dobbs decision.

“While the decision announced today by the U.S. Supreme Court is a cause for praise and thanks to God, it does not mean our work is over,” Vigneron said. “I join my brother bishops in Michigan in affirming that the Church must redouble her efforts to ensure every woman, child, and family has the support necessary to thrive in pregnancy, early childhood, and beyond.”