March for Life is calling out Planned Parenthood, which recently launched an online campaign to teach people about “at-home abortion.” March for Life said the method is dangerous.

The Center for Human and Family Rights reported on the Planned Parenthood program, sparking March for Life to criticize the move.

"Planned Parenthood continues to put women's lives at risk as it facilitates the sale of illegal abortion pills,” March for Life said in a recent tweet. “The abortion company even instructs women to lie to healthcare providers if they experience complications from a self-induced abortion.”

March for Life is a pro-life group known for organizing anti-abortion marches across the country.

Planned Parenthood’s campaign references the HowToUseAbortionPill.org website, which is run by anonymous nonprofit organizations; C-Fam asserted in a report. Women are advised to dispose of “anything recognizable,” regardless of the state or country’s abortion laws. The site credits the World Health Organization (WHO), whose “self-care guidance” encourages women to disregard the legal ramifications of their actions.

The International Planned Parenthood Federation not only is the largest provider of abortions, but it also advocates for less-restrictive abortion laws. It credits itself for “successfully advocat[ing] for the country registration of medical abortion drugs and for their inclusion into national essential medicine lists.”

The WHO maintains a “global essential medicines list” that includes abortion pills. In 2019, the pills were designated as a “core” medicine, and WHO deleted “a caveat saying it should be used with close medical supervision,” when it comes to the medications.

The “abortion pill” is generally a mix of five pills, one mifepristone pill and four misoprostol pills. For two to four weeks after the pills are taken, most women experience cramping, bleeding, nausea, vomiting, fever, chills, diarrhea and headaches; A Woman’s Choice report said. Some women develop lemon-sized blood clots, severe abdominal and back pain, and some reported that the pregnancy was not terminated.

Psychological side effects were also reported, and those appeared more often than the physical effects and lasted longer; the report said. Depression, regret, guilt, anger, loneliness, nightmares, loss of self-confidence, relationship problems and suicidal ideation were the ones the American Pregnancy Association cited in the report as most common. Some women died from bacterial infections or toxic shock related to the abortion pills as well.

The Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) produced an analysis of Medicaid data that showed emergency room visits due to medical abortions increased by 500% between 2002 and 2015.

“The safety of chemical abortion is greatly exaggerated,” Dr. James Studnicki, CLI vice president of Data Analytics, said in the report. “In fact, the increasing dominance of chemical abortion and its disproportionate contribution to emergency room morbidity is a serious public health threat, and the real-world data suggests the threat is growing.

“Women are far more likely to visit the emergency room following a chemical rather than surgical abortion. The rate of these emergency room visits is growing remarkably fast. It is therefore terrifying that the FDA is actively being pressured to eliminate longstanding public health safeguards on the abortion pill. This comprehensive data advocates for the FDA to strengthen, rather than weaken, medical oversight of chemical abortion.”

The Catholic Church disregards evolving biological theories about when life begins, sticking to its belief that life begins at conception. Thus, it maintains a strong stance against abortion.

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) cites the Catechism for guidance, which says, "'Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law' (No. 2271)."