You're listening to Breakpoint this week, where we're talking about the top stories of the week from a Christian worldview.

Today we're going to hit some of the top news this week, including more information about the abortion drug and its harms on women.

We're also going to talk about a return to spirituality in the U.S. and worldwide.

We have a lot to get to today. We're so glad you're here.

Stick around. Welcome to Breakpoint this week. From the Colson Center for Christian Worldview,

I'm Maria Baer, alongside John Stone Street, president of the Colson Center. John, we've taken to starting

these shows lately with hitting a few just kind of top

news stories in this first segment. So I want to start with a paper, a new paper that came out from the

Ethics and Public Policy Center this past week. This is a companion to a research paper that they

released a couple weeks ago, really digging into the impact of the abortion pill, Mithopristone.

And the first paper that they released, they analyzed nearly 900,000 insurance claims data

and looked at the incidence rates of adverse medical reactions after taking these medications.

And they found them to be far higher than the FDA is

currently warning women about. So the FDA says it's around 0.5% of women will go on to have an

adverse medical reaction. EPPC and other data researchers found that it's more like one in nine

women will have an adverse medical reaction within 45

days. This new paper that they released this week, it found that one in 20 women who are prescribed

or who take Mithiphypristone will go on to require another abortion attempt after this.

And I do just want to point out briefly, we've spoken before, kind of described

how this abortion pill regimen works. The first pill you take essentially starves the baby. The second

pill induces labor. And I did see online some people pushing back against this phrasing from

EPPC saying that women will require a second abortion attempt, people rightly

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