March for Life is calling Planned Parenthood on the carpet for its online campaign that teaches people about at-home abortion, incentivizing women with the “abortion pill.”

The effort, reported on by the Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam), has prompted March for Life to highlight the dangers the abortion pill poses to women’s health.

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

Planned Parenthood is promoting the HowToUseAbortionPill.org website, which is run by anonymous nonprofit organizations, the C-Fam report said. The website tells women to dispose of “anything recognizable,” with no regard for the state or country’s abortion laws.

The report also condemns the World Health Organization (WHO) for its “self-care guidance” that encourages women to disregard the legal ramifications of their actions.

The International Planned Parenthood Federation is the largest provider of abortions. It also pushes for leniency when it comes to abortion laws nationwide and takes credit for “successfully advocat[ing] for the country registration of medical abortion drugs and for their inclusion into national essential medicine lists.”

The WHO maintains a “global essential medicines list” that includes the abortion pills. The individual pills had their statuses changed to “core” medicines in 2019, and the WHO removed “a caveat saying [the pills] should be used with close medical supervision.”

The “abortion pill” typically consists of five pills: one mifepristone pill and four misoprostol pills. On its website, A Woman’s Choice noted that women can have complications for weeks after the pills are taken. Most women experience cramping, bleeding, nausea, vomiting, fever, chills, diarrhea and headaches. Some women have reported seeing lemon-sized blood clots, and some have suffered severe abdominal and back pain. Others reported that the pills did not end their pregnancy.

Psychological side effects are also common and can be longer-lasting that the physical woes. Women reported suffering depression, regret, guilt, anger, loneliness, nightmares, loss of self-confidence, relationship problems and suicidal ideation, the American Pregnancy Association said in the A Woman’s Choice article. Additionally, there were women who experienced fatal bacterial infections or fatal toxic shock after taking the abortion pills.

An analysis of Medicaid data showed that emergency room visits linked to medical abortions increased by 500% between 2002 and 2015, the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) reported.

“The safety of chemical abortion is greatly exaggerated,” Dr. James Studnicki, CLI vice president of Data Analytics, said in the report. “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 staunchly opposes abortion, regardless of various biological theories about when life begins, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said. The Catechism defines the Church’s guidelines on abortion: "'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)."

Various U.S. bishops spoke out after the Supreme Court publicized its ruling on the Dobbs case in June. 

“As a Church that advances the Culture of Life and as members of a civil society, we welcome the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in the Dobbs case,” Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki said at the time. “While no doubt we all feel a renewed hope for the future, let us also remember that our struggle to preserve the sanctity of human life is only just beginning. Abortion laws now return to the individual states. Our challenge is to continue to promote that human life begins at conception and needs to be protected at all times.”