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A pro-life group is sarcastically celebrating Governor Kathy Hochul's administration for planning to destroy approximately 150,000 expired abortion pills that cost $112,000. The pills were part of a two-drug regimen used for medicinal abortions and were purchased in 2023 amid legal battles over mifepristone. Shawn Carney, CEO of 40 Days for Life, views this as a victory for the pro-life movement despite acknowledging that Hochul had no choice but to destroy them due to expiration.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-06,
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In late 2023, Gov. Kathy Hochul's administration purchased around 150,000 abortion pills, specifically misoprostol, which cost taxpayers approximately $112,000, but the stockpile has since expired and is set to be destroyed by the state Department of Health. This move has been sarcastically praised by pro-life activists like Shawn Carney, CEO of 40 Days for Life, who sees it as a victory for the anti-abortion movement despite acknowledging that Hochul's team had no other choice but to destroy the expired pills. The purchase occurred around the time of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision in 2022, which overturned the constitutional right to abortion, prompting several states including California, Massachusetts, and Oregon to stockpile similar medications for potential future needs.
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A pro-life group is applauding plans by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s administration to destroy about 150,000 abortion pills that cost taxpayers $112,000 but were never used.
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that → applaud → 112,000
Hochul’s team bought in 2023 the stockpile of misoprostol, part of a two-drug medicinal abortion regimen, but the state Department of Health is now set to destroy it because the pills have expired.
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pills → buy → it
“I think it’s a great victory for the pro-life movement,” Shawn Carney, CEO & president of 40 Days for Life, told The Post.
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Carney → think → Post
“I think it’s humiliating for all these people who ran out and said there’s going to be more [abortion] than there ever have been.”
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who → think → people
Carney isn’t giving Hochul too much credit for the move, noting that her administration had no choice but to destroy the pills.
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administration → give → pills
Still, he feels that it’s a positive development that those potential abortions never took place.
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abortions → feel → place
“It’s definitely great for the pro-life movement,” he added.
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he → ’ → movement
“I don’t know any other option that she has.
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she → know → that
I think that the state government and the governors, particularly the Democrats, have spent way too much time trying to promote themselves as abortion pill superstars.
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government → think → superstars
“They spent way too much time on this issue.”
Hochul’s team hadn’t dipped into the stockpile and there are no plans to replenish the stockpile, according to the agency.
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team → spend → agency
The administration made the purchase in the aftermath of a court battle over the legality of mifepristone, the other major drug used to cause abortion.
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administration → make → abortion
Mifepristone is essentially used to end the pregnancy, and misoprostol is used to clear out the uterus afterward.
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misoprostol → use → uterus
Chemical abortions were responsible for nearly two-thirds of all abortions nationwide in 2023, according to data from the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute.
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abortions → accord → Institute
Other states such as California, Massachusetts, and Oregon similarly built up stockpiles around that time, with the Golden State distributing the pills.
All of that came around the time of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision to end past legal precedents guaranteeing a nationwide right to abortion.
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All → build → abortion
Critics of the Supreme Court argued that after Dobbs, some data indicated that abortion rates shot up.
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rates → argue → Dobbs
But Carney theorized that those figures might be skewed by people stockpiling abortion pills and not using them.
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figures → theorize → them
“It’s another sort of note of evidence that the abortion numbers we hear today are completely fabricated by the left because they’re taking into account these stockpiled abortion pills, which, of course, today we get more evidence that they weren’t even used,” Carney contended.
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Carney → ’ → evidence
“They’re just saying there’s more abortions now than ever, therefore we need it, and it needs to be deregulated, and it needs to be legal,” he went on.
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he → say → it
“It’s completely false.”
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It → ’ → ?
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