An FDA report showed 28 deaths out of 5.6 million women who took mifepristone from 2000 to 2022. But the FDA did not attribute these deaths to the drug and that number included homicides, suicide and unrelated drug overdoses.
the group wrote that"mifepristone has caused thousands of women to be hospitalized, others to experience hemorrhaging, severe infections, AND 28 cases of maternal death."
These posts — which were flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed — mischaracterize the fatality data on medication abortion, which include cases of homicide and drug overdoses.Our search for sources on the 28 deaths figure led us to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’son adverse events associated with mifepristone from September 2000 through June 30, 2022.
That report showed that out of 5.6 million women who took the drug in that period, 28 later died. But the report does not attribute these fatalities to the drug. It reads,"These events cannot with certainty be causally attributed to mifepristone because of information gaps about patient health status, clinical management of the patient, concurrent drug use, and other possible medical or surgical treatments and conditions."were among the 28 reported deaths, the report said. Other cases included incidents of homicide, suspected homicide, suicide, drug intoxication, drug overdoses and a natural death.
"Pregnancy itself is associated with roughly 1,000 deaths per year in the U.S., many more than mifepristone," said Dr. Erika Werner, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston."By definition, a death associated with a drug does not mean caused by that drug. In this case, all deaths that occurred in close temporal proximity to the medication were likely included.
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