3 takeaways from Live Action's abortion pill exposé, investigation of Planned Parenthood
3. Report highlights the association between mifepristone and Holocaust gas
Live Action’s white paper, "The State of Chemical Abortion: A Mechanism of Death," noted a connection between the abortion pill and Zyklon B, the cyanide gas that the Nazis used in concentration camps during the Holocaust.
The “father of the abortion pill,” Étienne-Émile Baulieu, began developing RU-486, or mifepristone, in the early 1980s, working in partnership with the French pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf to develop the drug.
According to Live Action’s research, which the group cited in the white paper, Roussel-Uclaf was a subsidiary of Hoechst A.G., a German-based parent company.
“Hoechst A.G. was one of the three successor corporations established following the dissolution of I.G. Farben, the German chemical conglomerate responsible for the production of Zyklon B, the cyanide gas utilized in Nazi extermination camps,” the white paper stated.
“This lineage establishes a connection between the pharmaceutical agent, which now terminates the lives of preborn children, and the manufacturer of the lethal gas, infamously known as the 'devil’s chemist,” the document continued. “Zyklon B was employed by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust, initially for the control of rodents and pests, and subsequently used for the systematic mass extermination of human beings.”
Samantha Kamman is a reporter for The Christian Post. She can be reached at: samantha.kamman@christianpost.com. Follow her on Twitter: @Samantha_Kamman
