Ingrid Skop, M.D., FACOG

This fact sheet lays out basic definitions and data related to maternal mortality, with a focus on false narratives surrounding the relationship between maternal mortality and abortion.

“Abortion up to birth” is sometimes used to describe abortions in the seventh, eighth, or ninth month of pregnancy. Although media coverage tends to focus on late-term abortions performed because the unborn baby has a serious health condition or the mother’s life is threatened, research indicates that many late-term abortions occur for reasons unrelated to serious maternal or fetal health concerns. And despite claims that born-alive abortion survivors are a myth, babies have survived late abortions.

CLI Vice President and Director of Medical Affairs Dr. Ingrid Skop discusses the dangers of abortion drugs, the lack of U.S. abortion data, and some of the abortion drug complications she has seen with patients.

CLI Vice President and Director of Medical Affairs Dr. Ingrid Skop discusses the risks of telehealth abortions.

CLI Vice President and Director of Medical Affairs Dr. Ingrid Skop explains how serious abortion drug complications can be.

Abortion data collection in the U.S. is seriously lacking. Currently, it’s impossible to study the real impact of abortion because of the many gaps in data.

This fact sheet summarizes some of the main ways U.S. abortion data, including complications and abortion-related mortality data, is currently insufficient for studying abortion incidence, outcomes, safety, and other related issues. Also addressed are the ways in which existing peer-reviewed research has sometimes been misused or misinterpreted both by the government and by pro-abortion media.

Coincident with the increasing dominance of medical abortion, there is a concurrent increase in the misattribution of post-induced abortion emergency department visits to a spontaneous abortion. High levels of visit acuity suggest that these miscodes represent a serious risk factor. Further, these miscodes mask post-abortion complication rates and undermine both the science and medical management necessary to address these issues.

Poorly equipped, unsanitary, and understaffed facilities. A sewage leak caused patients to vomit. Positive sexually transmitted infection results went unreported.  The New York Times gave a shocking glimpse behind the curtain of Planned Parenthood. Although the legacy media usually defends and promotes the largest U.S. provider of abortion (nearly 39% of all abortions in our country), some things are too egregious to ignore. 

Texas is often the subject of interest and criticism. The Texas Heartbeat Act was the first strong protection of unborn life allowed while Roe was in effect, and an even stronger protection, the Texas Human Life Protection Act, was enforced following the overturn of Roe. Much media attention has been focused on potential adverse events these laws might cause. Immediately after Texas enacted stronger gestational age limitations, pro-abortion media advocates began a campaign of accusations. In this paper, the most notable of these objections will be addressed.