October 20, 2025
PassionLife urges women to avoid the dangers of the abortion pill
‘Where is the demand that this damaging abortion method, like the so-called clothes-hanger, be stopped in the name of health care for women?’
MARIETTA, Ga. — Unfortunately, many women around the world find themselves in an unexpected pregnancy. Fear, ambivalence, pressure from others and their circumstances create the feeling of “I have no choice” but to end the lives of their unborn children through abortion. Despite reassurances from the pro-abortion community, chemical abortion — commonly known as the abortion pill — can have serious negative side effects, with studies reporting that one out of 10 women experiencing complications such as hemorrhaging, infection, failed abortions and even death, according to federal records.
“How often have you heard, or even used, the argument that abortion should remain legal because, otherwise, women would resort to dangerous back-alley abortions?” said PassionLife President Pastor John Ensor in a recent op-ed. PassionLife is a pro-life global missions partner to missionaries and indigenous Christian leaders living in countries where abortion and infanticide are especially concentrated. “This is the so-called clothes-hanger argument, a reference to the crude and unsafe method of abortion that obviously exposes women to sepsis, hemorrhage, infection, and worse.”
PassionLife works with churches and organizations around the world to help encourage pregnant women to choose life for themselves and their unborn children. PassionLife equips Pregnancy Help Organizations to proclaim the “Gospel of Life,” a shorthand for all that the Bible says regarding the value of human life and the treatment of others.
“That the abortion pill harms women is the conclusion of the data analysis by Jamie Bryan Hall and Ryan Anderson at EPPC,” commented Ensor. “The data shows that ‘10.93 percent of women experience sepsis, infection, hemorrhaging, or another serious adverse event within 45 days following a mifepristone abortion.’ This is more than 20 times higher than the 0.5% figure established by the FDA.
“Where is the demand that this damaging abortion method, like the so-called clothes-hanger, be stopped in the name of health care for women? Why are abortion advocates, instead of demanding the FDA review this data and warn women of the dangers, pushing for less oversight in the prescription and use of the abortion pill?
“I don’t believe the pro-abortion community cares about protecting women from harmful abortion methods, as suggested by the clothes hanger. But I am ready to be proven wrong. I will even apologize if, as clear-eyed cobelligerents in the culture war, they join hands with us on this one thing — demand that the FDA do its job and ‘investigate the harm mifepristone causes to women and based on objective safety criteria, reconsider its approval altogether.’”
For more from Pastor John Ensor about the dangers of the abortion pill, click here.
Since 2010, PassionLife has worked as a pro-life global missions partner to missionaries, pastors and Christian leaders in China, Romania, Cuba, India, Vietnam and other countries where the plague of abortion, infanticide and gendercide is especially concentrated. In such places, PassionLife disciples people in a Biblical worldview of human value, teaches them how to make a case for life in a secular culture, shows how abortion guilt and grief are an entry point for the Gospel’s offer of forgiveness and freedom, and provides models of pregnancy crisis intervention services that they can adapt to their culture and neighborhood.
In recent years, PassionLife’s Tiny Baby© fetal model, the world’s littlest missionary, has been handed out to tens of thousands of pastors and leaders and other places where abortion is especially concentrated. It travels, hand to hand, dispelling misinformation about the humanity of the unborn, highlighting the intricate beauty of human life and proclaiming the humanity all humans share.
“PassionLife,” a new half-hour show in partnership with NRBTV, highlights the ministry’s work around the globe, revealing how dedicated staff and volunteers teach the Gospel of Life to those in the most vulnerable situations. The show airs every Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. EST.
John Ensor, an ordained Evangelical pastor, has been a leader in the pro-life movement for over 30 years as a speaker, author, mentor and co-laborer. John serves as the President of PassionLife, where he concentrates on helping missionaries and indigenous Christian leaders serving in countries plagued by abortion to equip the church in bioethics and pregnancy crisis intervention services. He has been recognized in the “Legacy of Life” book as one of the fifty greatest pro-life leaders of the last 50 years. John is the co-host of the “PassionLife Podcast” with PassionLife Executive Director, Mark Nicholson. Together, they discuss ministry updates and provide commentary on global current events.
For more information, visit the PassionLife website at https://www.passionlife.org/.
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