Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan showed little care for victims of forced abortions on Wednesday when she accused her Republican colleagues on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee of “gaslighting” Americans on the dangers of mail-order mifepristone and claimed violence against pregnant women is a “longstanding part of human history.”
The GOP senators who called the hearing titled Protecting Women: Exposing the Dangers of Chemical Abortion Drugs spent much of their two hours invoking an uptick in coerced pill-induced abortions as one of the many reasons the U.S. Food and Drug Administration should restore the mifepristone safeguards stripped by the Biden administration, such as an in-person doctor visit.
Hassan immediately took issue with evidence that mifepristone has put women and their babies at immense risk of harm by claiming that “women have been coerced before mifepristone, and they have been coerced since mifepristone.”
“The murder rate, the assault rate on pregnant women by their partners to end a pregnancy has been a longstanding part of human history,” Hassan said. “So to blame it on mifepristone misses the point. To say that women shouldn’t be able to get this medication through the mail misses the point.”
Hassan’s “point” centered on accusing pro-life states and their lifesaving policies of creating “maternal health and reproductive health deserts in this country.”
“When you say a woman should go consult with a physician, there are women who would have to travel hours in this country, miss work, find a babysitter — if they have a car to begin with — in order to do that, because of policies that have banned abortion and have cut Medicaid in particular,” Hassan continued.
What she accidentally admitted instead is a fact pro-lifers have recognized for decades: The unlimited abortion-for-all culture that the Democrat party and their abortion activist allies have tried to force on Americans has undoubtedly weakened the safeguards designed to protect women and their babies from harm and abuse.