 Chemical as opposed to surgical abortions carry a greater risk of hemorrhage, greater risk of sepsis. One in 25 women of the hundreds of thousands who take abortion drugs each year end up in the emergency room. On the opposing side, lawyers argue this pill is as safe as Advil and claim the plaintiffs are not at risk of violating their beliefs, as the case claims. You have these health care providers who do not prescribe mifepristone, who don't have any direct connection to it, but say, oh, well, hypothetically, maybe one day we might encounter an abortion patient