Dr. Christina Francis, MD

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Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark · An OBGYN On What The Abortion Pill Actually Does To Your Body | Dr. Christina Francis, MD · 20 Feb 2026 podcast

All of the sort of tropes that we hear when in fact, again, we know that

According to some recent insurance claims data that was reviewed, approximately one in nine women will experience a severe adverse event related to these drugs.

And they're not being told that.

So they don't get informed consent even when they're seen in person, but certainly not when they're getting onto these websites.

Again, you know, one of the websites you just get on, add it to your cart.

They don't tell you anything.

So sometimes they're coming from pharmacies here in the U.S.

I think it depends on if they live in a state where abortion is illegal, then oftentimes they're coming from pharmacies outside of the U.S., which also then raises questions about

What is in the drug?

You know, we have no control over what is in them.

There was a study that was done several years ago that ordered these pills from various pharmacies all over the world and found varying levels of the active ingredient in them, some contaminants as well.

I mean, of course, there's no quality control, right, over these pills when they're being produced in other countries.

I think we could probably argue what kind of quality control is there when they're being produced even, you know, and distributed from pharmacies here in the U.S.

But that's just the thing.

She has absolutely no idea where exactly that drug is coming from and what sort of quality controls are in place over that drug either.

It depends on where she's getting them from.

You know, we've done some digging on some of these sites, and some of them that you go to are very clearly coming from pharmacies overseas.

The drugs that are coming have names that are completely different.

And so there's no way of knowing if, like you said, if the dose that they're getting is even the appropriate dose that they're supposed to be getting.

One site that we found would send you 14 pills of that second drug of mesoprostol, which are much larger doses than any one person should be being given mesoprostol.

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