Telling Women Abortion is Safer Than Tylenol is a Total Lie

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the “Abortion Every Day” newsletter and its continuing slick rebranding of abortion as something casual, even empowering, and how I made the mistake of listening to their podcast.

In that episode, which was equal parts smug and shallow, the hosts repeated one of the most reckless lies the abortion industry promulgates: that Mifepristone is safer than Tylenol. Not once, mind you – but repeatedly. With zero pushback, zero context, and zero regard for the women they pretend to care about. This kind of misinformation isn’t just irresponsible and insufferable—it’s deadly. It turns a serious drug into a punchline and convinces vulnerable women that real risk doesn’t exist. But it does. And ignoring it costs lives.

You don’t have to dig deep to find the risks. Just look at the FDA’s own data. As of the end of 2024, dozens of women have died after taking Mifepristone. We’re talking about hemorrhage, sepsis, ruptured ectopic pregnancies, and other serious complications. And that’s just the confirmed cases. The actual number is likely higher because the FDA stopped requiring reporting of non-fatal complications years ago.

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I’ve spent a long time in the pro-life movement, and here is a truth universally acknowledged by those of us who fight for life: abortion activists will do anything to preserve access, even if that means ignoring what these pills actually do. Chemical abortion isn’t a neat little process; it’s traumatic, messy, and dangerous, especially when done at home with zero medical oversight. Women are bleeding alone in bathrooms, sometimes for weeks. Some end up in the ER. Some never make it out.

In Canada, where mifepristone is shipped through pharmacies with the frequency and regularity of someone having an Amazon Prime account, over 10% of women who took the drug ended up in emergency rooms. Think about that—one in ten. But sure, as the unendurable hosts of the Abortion Every Day podcast claim, it’s safer than Tylenol, right?

Here in the U.S., we’re rushing to follow suit. The push is to make abortion-by-mail the norm—no ultrasound, no physical exam, just a few questions on a form and a package in your mailbox. It’s reckless. It’s ideologically driven. And it abandons the very women it claims to help.

If you support abortion, at least be honest about what it is and what it does. Don’t lie to women. Don’t tell them this is Tylenol when it’s a drug that ends life and risks their own. Don’t call it empowerment when it’s abandonment.

Mail-order abortion isn’t healthcare. It’s a business model dressed up in activist buzzwords. And no podcast catchphrase is going to change the facts. If we don’t speak up, more women will find themselves waking in the middle of the night, drenched in blood, cramping violently, and alone because she believed the lie and took the pills delivered to her home, with no ultrasound to tell her if she’s now bleeding from a dead child, an incomplete abortion, or a hidden ectopic pregnancy.

LifeNews.com Note: Raimundo Rojas is the Outreach Director for the National Right to Life Committee. He is a former president of Florida Right to Life and has presented the pro-life message to millions in Spanish-language media outlets. He represents NRLC at the United Nations as an NGO. Rojas was born in Santiago de las Vegas, Havana, Cuba and he and his family escaped to the United States in 1968.

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