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Florida A.G. Sues Planned Parenthood for Lying to Women, Claiming Abortion Pill is “Safer Than Tylenol”

Nov 11, 2025Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

*Above: Planned Parenthood’s abortion facility in Pittsburg, Kansas, markets abortion to women from Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Texas, and Arkansas.*

On November 6, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit against abortion giant Planned Parenthood for lying to women by claiming abortion pills are, “safer than Tylenol.”

The lawsuit is similar to one officials in Missouri filed in July. The Florida A.G.’s legal complaint says:

The “safer than Tylenol” marketing campaign has been ongoing for years and targeted to women in Florida. Just a few weeks ago, Defendant Planned Parenthood Florida Action proclaimed on X.com that “Mifepristone is safe. Safer than Tylenol.” That claim is manifestly false.

Abortionists typically use two separate pills for a chemical abortion. Mifepristone is administered to kill the unborn baby. A second drug called misoprostol causes the baby to be expelled from the woman’s body. Both carry serious risks and consequences.

A study by the experts at the Ethics and Public Policy Center found the abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol are at least 22 times more dangerous than the U.S. Food and Drug Administration labeling indicates.

Researchers noted that from 2017 to 2023, nearly one in nine women suffered serious health complications such as sepsis, infection, and hemorrhaging as a direct result of abortion drugs.

All of this has prompted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to launch a formal investigation into the abortion drugs and their safety.

The Florida Attorney General’s Office cited these findings and others in its lawsuit, writing:

These are inconvenient truths for Planned Parenthood, whose business model is built around high-margin chemical abortions. So rather than admit the danger of chemical abortion, Planned Parenthood lies. The abortion conglomerate not only assures its patients that abortion drugs are “extremely safe”—a dubious claim itself; it repeatedly declares that abortion drugs are “safer than Tylenol.”

In fact, abortion drugs are not safer than Tylenol. These claims have no basis in reality and have been repeatedly debunked. Nevertheless, Planned Parenthood continues to make them: on its website, in printed materials, on live television, and during interactions with patients.

Arkansas law generally prohibits abortion except to save the life of the mother, and it is a crime to mail or deliver abortion pills into the state. Abortionists who break the law are subject to criminal penalties. They also may be sued for malpractice, and they may face professional discipline — like suspension of their medical licenses.

Unfortunately, pro-abortion lawmakers in some states have enacted “shield laws” to protect abortionists who ship these dangerous abortion pills across state lines.

Groups like Planned Parenthood are also spending millions of dollars to promote abortion to women from pro-life states like Arkansas. That’s a serious problem.

Fortunately, Attorney General Tim Griffin has threatened legal action against companies advertising abortion drugs in Arkansas. The attorney general says these groups may be penalized under the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act. He has also urged the federal government to restrict abortion drugs and let states like Arkansas enforce their pro-life laws.

Abortion drugs end the lives of unborn children, and they hurt women. They simply should not be for sale in America. We appreciate Florida Attorney General Uthmeier and Arkansas Attorney General Griffin for each standing up against abortionists.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

State of Arkansas Has Not Disbursed $2M Appropriated for Moms in Need

Nov 6, 2025Jerry CoxAbortionAbortion, Life, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

So far this fiscal year, the State of Arkansas has not disbursed any of the grant funding that lawmakers and Governor Sanders appropriated in April to support women with unplanned pregnancies.

Act 1006 of 2025 by the legislature’s Joint Budget Committee provides $2 million for grants to pregnancy help organizations — including pregnancy resource centers, maternity homes, adoption agencies, and other charities that provide material support to women with unplanned pregnancies.

The State of Arkansas also can award funding to charities that promote infant and maternal wellness and reduce infant and maternal mortality by:

Providing nutritional information and/or nutritional counseling;
Providing prenatal vitamins;
Providing a list of prenatal medical care options;
Providing social, emotional, and/or material support; or
Providing referrals for WIC and community-based nutritional services, including food banks, food pantries, and food distribution centers.

Act 1006 makes it clear that grant money will not go to abortionists or their affiliates.

Under the measure, the Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) is responsible for receiving grant applications and disbursing grant funds to charities that support women with unplanned pregnancies.

DFA opened the grant application window for pregnancy help organizations last summer, and DFA spokesperson Scott Hardin tells Family Council the department received a total of 39 applications. However, the department does not currently have a timeline for awarding grants to the pregnancy help organizations.

Since 2022, Family Council has worked with the Arkansas Legislature and the governor to secure funding every year for pregnancy resource centers. These state-funded grants have provided millions of dollars to charities in Arkansas.

By working through existing charities, Arkansas is able to support women and children without creating new government offices or bureaucracy.

The grants are optional. Pregnancy resource centers are not required to accept public tax dollars if they do not want to. But for those who receive grant money, the funding may make a tremendous difference.

Pro-lifers in Arkansas have made abortion illegal. We need to make abortion irrelevant and unthinkable as well. Supporting pregnancy help organizations is one way we can do that.

Pregnancy resource centers give women real options besides abortion, making it less likely they will travel out of state for abortion or order illegal abortion drugs online.

Arkansas’ Pregnancy Help Organization Grant Program provides millions of dollars for women and unborn children and their families. Family Council has been pleased to work with our friends in the Arkansas Legislature and the Governor’s Office to make this funding available, and we look forward to seeing it distributed to eligible charities in communities all across Arkansas.

Articles appearing on this website are written with the aid of Family Council’s researchers and writers.

From One Clinic to Millions of Aborted Babies: Guest Column

Oct 31, 2025John StonestreetAbortionAbortion, Life, Planned Parenthood, Pro-life, Sanctity of Human Life

On this day in 1916, the first birth control clinic in America was opened in Brooklyn, New York. Margaret Sanger, a nurse who worked among the poor on the Lower East Side, founded the Brownsville Clinic, which was later renamed after her. Sanger founded Planned Parenthood, the organization that would lead America into an era of child killing. An estimated 64.5 million babies have been killed since Roe v. Wade legalized abortion on demand in 1973. Though the Dobbs decision overturned Roe, abortion had already, as Ryan Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis argued in their book, poisoned nearly every aspect of our culture.

At the heart of Sanger’s views was a deep, insipient racism that continues to express in the work of the organization she founded. An avowed advocate of eugenics, Sanger famously launched “The Negro Project” to reduce or eliminate the Black population by encouraging sterilization and birth control. Though the context of her words is debated, Sanger once described the project by saying:

We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

Sanger’s legacy is straightforward. While African Americans make up about 14% of the U.S. population, as of 2021, 28% of all abortions are from black women, compared to 6.4% of white women. Black moms are somewhere between three and five times more likely to have an abortion than white moms. In New York City, thousands more black babies are aborted than are born each year.

In the book How to be an Anti-Racist, which was on The New York Times Bestseller list for 45 straight weeks, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi defined racism as anything that “produces or sustains racial inequity.” According to Kendi, intention does not matter. Only outcomes matter.

Ironically, Kendi and other progressives center abortion rights in the cultural agenda for diversity, equality, and inclusion. However, according to his own (flawed) definition of racism, there is no more racist practice than abortion, and there is no cultural institution more racist than Planned Parenthood. Over 19 million more African-American people would be in the world today if not for legalized abortion and Planned Parenthood. Even more, Planned Parenthood’s business model directly targets black and other minority women. A 2017 Protecting Black Life study found that 22 of 25 abortion mega-centers were located within walking distance of black communities.

The idea of “systemic” or “institutional racism” is controversial. Often, the concepts are used to subvert debate and condemn political opponents. However, it should not be theologically controversial to suggest that sin can take systemic and structural forms. There are examples throughout Scripture and human history. For example, prior to the flood, God described the evil of man as “great in the earth, and … every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually” (Genesis 6:5 ESV).

Systems and structures can operate, with either intention or inertia, in ways that harm certain groups. This does not alleviate individual responsibility for evil. Rather, it is what happens because evil corrupts hearts and minds, people and nations, and individuals and systems.

There is no greater example of systemic racism in an organization than Planned Parenthood. Proponents of eugenics, like Sanger, wanted wealthy, healthy and strong people to have more babies, and poor, sick, disabled, and minority people to have fewer (or no) babies. Of course, the women who walk into a Planned Parenthood today are not thinking about Margaret Sanger or her racist views. They are in crisis and looking for help. Many are in poverty. Way too many are being pressured to abort. Many are scared. Black mothers are nearly three times as likely to die during pregnancy or childbirth as white mothers. All have been raised in a society in which abortion has been normalized.

Years ago, Planned Parenthood of New York removed Sanger’s name from its clinic. They even appealed to the city to change the name “Margaret Sanger Square.” Distancing from Sanger does not lessen the evil of her views or life’s work. Nor does it redeem the racist foundations upon which Planned Parenthood has been built and still operates.