the group wrote that"mifepristone has caused thousands of women to be hospitalized, others to experience hemorrhaging, severe infections, AND 28 cases of maternal death."
That report showed that out of 5.6 million women who took the drug in that period, 28 later died. But the report does not attribute these fatalities to the drug. "Pregnancy itself is associated with roughly 1,000 deaths per year in the U.S., many more than mifepristone," said Dr. Erika Werner, chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Tufts Medical Center in Boston."By definition, a death associated with a drug does not mean caused by that drug. In this case, all deaths that occurred in close temporal proximity to the medication were likely included.
Dr. Caleb Alexander, an epidemiology and medicine professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a co-director of the Center for Drug Safety and Effectiveness, told PolitiFact that the nature of the deaths detailed in the report suggests that many, if not most of the cases, may have little to nothing to do with mifepristone.