The largest study on the abortion pill ever finds that it significantly harms women.

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conclusions that should not surprise bivocally minded Christians. These are the stories we will discuss,

and we will also address some of your questions. I'm your host, Sean McDowell.

I'm your co-host, Scott Ray. This is the Think Biblical Weekly Cultural Update, brought

to you by Talb School Theology, Biola University. Scott, this first story dropped earlier

in the week, so some other podcasts have talked about it, but my instant thought was two things.

We've got to discuss this, and given that this is in your lane, I've been really interested all week

in your take on this. Here's some of the backdrop for folks. This is the largest study.

It came out of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Largest known study of the abortion

pill based on analysis from 2017 to 2023 that includes over 865,000

prescribed mifoprestone patients who took mifoprestone. What's interesting is according to

Danco laboratories who markets this, it's a safe and effective abortion pill.

But this research shows quite different results.

The manufacturer and the FDA rely on the results of 10 clinical trials with a total of 30,000

participants, and they say less than 0.5% of whom experienced serious adverse reactions.

In contrast, when they studied real-world insurance claims, where individuals again prescribed

Mithoprestome, and broadly representative, they said these are not just selective women,

but all representatives. They said, we get very different results in the USA Today. They found

adverse event rate of almost 11%. That's 22 times as high as the summary figure reported on the drug label.

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