Planned Parenthood, the giant in America’s abortion industry with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue, is being sued by the state of Missouri for deceiving American women about the safety of an abortion chemical it provides.
“For years, Planned Parenthood Federation of America has been lying to Americans about the risks of abortion pills,” charges the legal filing against the abortionists, according to the claim brought in federal court in Missouri by the state itself.
“Planned Parenthood tells Missourians that the abortion pill is ‘safer than many other medicines like penicillin, Tylenol, and Viagra. … That is brazenly false. A single dose of the abortion pill regularly lands woman in the emergency room.”
In fact, the case documents that “up to 4.6% of women who take a single dose of ‘mifepristone’” will end up in the emergency room.
The lawsuit explains, “Planned Parenthood is lying about the abortion pill to cut costs and boost revenue. Most physicians are not interested in working for Planned Parenthood—in part because of what the New York Times reports as a pattern of ‘botched care’ at Planned Parenthoods across the country that has put Planned Parenthood in a ‘crisis.’ Katie Benner, Botched Care and Tired Staff: Planned Parenthood in Crisis, New York Times (Feb. 15, 2025). Indeed, a Planned Parenthood facility in Columbia, Missouri, was recently shut down by the health department because the facility was using moldy abortion equipment. Working for Planned Parenthood carries reputational risk. Unable to hire enough physicians, Planned Parenthood schemes for shortcuts. Because it is easy for untrained, nonphysicians to deliver abortion pills, Planned Parenthood has successfully increased the proportion of abortions that occur by abortion pill. Now, two-thirds of all abortions occur by pill, a significant increase from 2017, when the abortion pill was used in just over one-third of abortions. To induce women to obtain the abortion pill, Planned Parenthood lies to women, concealing from them the high risks posed by the abortion pill.”
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey the abortion corporation is in violation of the state’s Merchandising Practices Act.
It got to that position by “systematically” misleading women, the case charges.
“The national Planned Parenthood organization is actively endangering the lives of women and girls across the country by spreading lies and disinformation about the powerful chemical abortion drug,” Bailey charges.
Bailey’s court action seeks more than $1.8 million in civil penalties for daily violations of Missouri law, up to $1,000 in damages or restitution for every Missouri woman Planned Parenthood provided abortion pills to in the past five years, reimbursement to the state for Medicaid and other taxpayer-funded emergency care resulting from abortion pill complications and a court order halting Planned Parenthood Federation of America from continuing to promote these falsehoods in Missouri.
In March, Bailey had previously issued a cease-and-desist order to Planned Parenthood formally prohibiting the abortion giant from performing chemical abortions in the state citing the company’s “uncontroverted track record” for disregarding Missouri health and safety laws.
Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver said, “Comparing chemical abortion drugs to Tylenol is offensive and deceptive. Chemical abortions harm women physically and emotionally and cruelly kill defenseless children in the womb. The abortion industry has an agenda of death that disregards the life of unborn children and the health of their mothers.”
Bailey added, “Planned Parenthood’s false advertising has a national reach, including targeted claims against Missouri women. The organization uses its website to make dangerous claims, such as calling the chemical abortion drug mifepristone, ‘safer than many other medicines like penicillin, Tylenol, and Viagra.’”
