America reached a grim milestone in 2020.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

According to the Pro-abortion Gutmacher Institute, 2020,

was the first year that more than half of all abortions performed in the U.S.

54% were done via medication instead of instruments.

That's up from 39% in 2017.

Abortion pills are only approved for use before a baby reaches 10-week's gestation.

Due to COVID, prescriptions became available via telehealth. But how can a doctor verify gestational

age without seeing a woman in person? In fact, how's a doctor supposed to monitor women for

life-threatening complications after taking the drugs, which do happen, if they never come to the office?

Privatizing abortion for hurting women only increases profits for drug companies and doctors

who can collect their dues without seeing patients.

However, sending abortion home also increases the danger, the shame,

isolation of women in need of our care.

And, of course, adding this bad idea to an already bad idea

just makes more babies into victims.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.