Then you have the abortion pill, RU486. Which, by the way, says it can cause sudden death. Death in the unborn, as well as the mother. How? RU486 works like rat poison. You see, rat poison kills the rat by making it's blood so then, the rat bleeds to death internally. Ru 486 works the same way to kill the unborn child. Problem is, there's a 50% chance it may kill the mother as well. By making her internally bleed to death. And it has happened. Both mother and baby die, and for what reason? Money.
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God damn, it's an emergency contraceptive, THERE IS NO BABY YET, IT HAS NO VEINS, IT'S A MICROSCOPIC LUMP OF CELLS. They keep it from attaching to the uterus. Last I checked, rat poison wasn't used to keep fertilized eggs from attaching to the uterus.
If it was 50%, you'd have a hell of a lot more deaths than there have been from this. One has been reported that I know of, and I wouldn't be all that shocked if there have been a few more. You mean to tell me there have been only 10 or so people who've even tried it?
Rat poison. What? If they're still using strictnine, all your muscles fire at once and don't get the signal to turn off. All your bones break from the stess and you die by suffocation.
Spaz , this isn't the morning after pill. It is medical abortion, but it's very very safe and I'm all for it!
there's a 50% chance it may kill the mother as well
I just did a Google search, and can find reference to only 7 women in the USA dying from RU486 complications.
Call me a cynic, but I think there have been slightly more than 14 people who have used this drug.
'...rat poison kills the rat by making it's blood so then, the rat bleeds to death internally.'
I ACCIDENTALLY THE RAT'S BLOOD!
>>SaneChick
Spaz, this isn't the morning after pill. It is medical abortion, but it's very very safe and I'm all for it!<<
Mifepristone is used both as an emergency contraceptive (that is, a morning after pill), and as an aborifacient in the first two months of pregnancy. Mifepristone is not used as an emergency contraceptive in the US, but is approved for that use in China and in Russia.
Wikipedia provides the following statistics:
*Effectiveness in terminating pregnancy: 98.5% - 99.9%, depending on how long far along the pregnancy is.
*In the past 10 years, in the USA, 14 women have died and 612 required hospitalization as a result of the drug, primarily due to excessive bleeding.
*There were roughly 800000 abortions/year in the USA in this interval (the number has been decreasing slowly with time). ~8% of those used RU486.
So: 14 deaths out of 640000 cases. The risk of the mother's death associated with the drug is therefore 0.002% . Is that low enough that we don't need to worry about it?
As an atheist pro-lifer, these religious nuts with their moronic lies make me look like a nut when I say I'm against abortion. People like this need to fuck right off.
How is "money" the reason both died? Medical abortion is both a safe and a cheap way to abort an unwanted pregnancy. Like others have said, it's more dangerous to take an aspirin...
Here's a typical "unborn child"around the time when most medical abortions happen. Isn't it cute, Admin3?image
A mother is someone who has given birth to a child, which is why pregnant people usually say "I'm going to be a mother in x months".
fatality rate of 1 death in 120,000
There are other options for emergency contraceptives.
It does not work like warfarin as far as I can tell.
The reason is women making a choice that they dont want a pregnancy, with all the risks that entails, may not be able to support a child or lose the income that a pregnancy would cause.
Society says that women have that right and therefore abortions are legal. Get over it.
I dont like the "its only a clump of cells" arguement either because at fertilization its presumably a viable human if allowed to grow.
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