Thursday, December 11, 2008

Over-the-Counter Abortion

I never knew there was an over-the-counter "morning after" pill -- until I saw the ads on the internet radio station I listen to Christmas music on at work. If your regular birth control fails, says the ad, just relax: you've always got "Plan B" to fall back on.

Euphemistically called "emergency contraceptives," "Plan B" levonorgestrel tablets are "not intended to replace regular birth control," and should only be used in "emergencies." They are available without a prescription, unless you're a minor, in which case they're available with a prescription. They work by preventing the fertilized egg (i.e., the newly-conceived human being) from implanting in the wall of the uterus.

So this is an over-the-counter abortion. What a wonderful advance in medical science. Now you can have all the benefits of abortion without all the muss and fuss of vacuums, dilation and curettage, needles, saline solution, and bloody pieces of little baby all over the place. You just pass the baby and flush it down the toilet. It dies in the sewer, and you are spared a major inconvenience.

And, incidentally, what a wonderful thing to look at while listening to "Away in a Manger."

8 comments:

  1. Actually, there is no proof they work to prevent a fertalized egg from implanting. What they really do is prevent a woman from ovulating by giving her an extra dose of birth control to prevent the release of an egg, so the sperm and egg never meet. Since sperm live inside a woman for up to 5 to 10 days this medicine will prevent ovulation and the woman won't get pregnant. If she's already ovulated and the sperm and egg meet then it's a done deal - which is why the medicine is more effective the sooner you take it and is only like 89% effective at all.

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  2. Erica,

    Quod gratis

    that means, the burden of proof lies upon you to prove that your statement is true. I am not surprised that you would not know how the so-called morning after pill works, but since you have accused the poster of saying what is not true, the burden is on you to back it up. certainly you can provide a literature citation?

    Think about it. The Morning After Pill (RU 486) is recommended for a situation where conception already took place, and pregnancy is desired to be avoided. If all you wanted to do was avoid the action of living sperm for a period of time, a spermicide gell would accomplish the purpose without the threat to life which RU 486 brings, Why would you risk your life if it could be done much easier?


    RU 486 Has Killed Thirteen Women
    by J.C. Willke, MD

    Since it has become generally used in the western world, the French abortion pill, RU 486, has now resulted in the death of seven women. This fact speaks for itself in regard to the so-called safety of the drug. Let me briefly describe each victim.

    1. The first published case occurred in France, April 1991, but was widely dismissed because it was reported she had all three contraindications to the use of the drug. She had been a heavy smoker, had heart problems and high blood pressure. Over the next several years, there were no deaths reported, possibly because the drug was only beginning to be introduced in many countries.

    2. In September 2001, a Canadian woman died from septic shock eight days after taking the pills. This was a result of a Clostridium infection in the uterus, possibly due to retained parts of the baby. A second woman, 21 years old, sustained a serious heart attack but survived. As a result, the Canadian trials of RU 486 were temporarily halted.

    3.On September 12, 2001, a 38- year-old woman in Tennessee died five days after taking RU 486. She had a tubal pregnancy which, according to a warning from the Food and Drug Administration, RU 486 will not abort. This abortion facility apparently failed to make the proper diagnosis, even though they did an ultrasound. According to her boyfriend, they said, “We don’t see any fetus in the uterus, but that is not unusual. This is an early pregnancy.” She returned home and developed severe pain and bleeding, which worsened over several days. She placed multiple calls to the abortion facility, as her condition worsened, but was advised that her symptoms were normal and routine. She was finally hospitalized and received legitimate medical care, but died from massive peritonitis from the ruptured tube. A major malpractice lawsuit was subsequently filed.


    4. Holly Patterson, an 18-year-old girl in California, died September 17, 2003, after taking RU 486. The Planned Parenthood death center did not educate her on how to administer the medication, did not have her signature on a consent form and failed to report her death as an unusual occurrence. After taking the medication, she returned to a local hospital twice. The first time she was given painkillers and sent home. The second time, she went to the hospital where she died. The Alameda County, California Coroner’s official autopsy report stated that she died because the drugs did not produce a complete abortion. The retained parts developed a massive systemic infection, septic shock and resulted in death.

    5. Rebecca Tell Berg, a sixteen-year- old Swedish girl, died June 3, 2003 from an RU 486 abortion. In this case, she apparently received good medical care. She was seven weeks pregnant. One week after being examined by a gynecologist, she returned to the hospital and was given three RU 486 abortion pills, a full dose. Two days later she returned and was given two Cytotec pills. After a few hours, she was in severe pain, bleeding heavily and was given pain medication. After being kept in the hospital for eight hours, she passed a “big blob” and was sent home. Days later, still bleeding and in pain, her boyfriend encouraged her to go to the hospital. However, hospital officials told her she could bleed for as long as two weeks, so she stayed home. During this time, a medical professional, inquiring about her condition, made at least one phone call. Eight days after the abortion she was found dead in the shower. A coroner’s report confirmed that Rebecca bled to death. It noted, however, that the doctors had given an appropriate dosage, followed proper procedure and “followed all the rules.”


    6,7. The British government, in January 2004, announced that two women had died after taking RU 486 for abortions. No details of the deaths or the victims have been given except that they died after taking RU 486. The deaths were described as “suspected fatal reactions associated with the use of RU 486.” When questioned, the health minister noted there might have been other causes for the deaths, but provided no evidence other than the use of RU 486.


    8. In November 2004 the US Food and Drug Administration announced that another woman had died from taking RU 486. The FDA said that they had reports of 17 potentially fatal cases of tubal pregnancy that had taken the drug. They noted that heavy bleeding was a problem in 8%, lasting as long as thirty days. They have records of 72 cases needing blood transfusions. They also reported seven near fatal cases of severe sepsis (bacterial infections), which were treated successfully. Rather than take this dangerous drug off the market, which is what they would have done if this had been any other drug except an abortion drug, they have compromised by issuing a revised warning label detailing these potential serious problems.

    9. One of these women was Oriane Shevin, 34 from Sherman Oaks, California. She died June 14, 2005 an attorney and mother of two, the cause of death was sepsis, a blood infection.

    10. Hoa Thuy Tran, 21, a student teacher in Orange County, CA died in 2003. Her name was made public in October 2005 when her family filed a lawsuit against Danco and Planned Parenthood, the maker of RU 486. Her death was due to septic shock associated with the drug.

    On July 29, 2005, the US Food and Drug Administration confirmed that a total of five women in the US have died using the drug RU486. Note that we list three deaths above. This adds two more.

    11. March 2006 - US food and Drug Administration, one woman died in a Planned Parenthood center in Colorado.

    12. May 2006 - Center for Disease Control reported at a scientific meeting in Atlanta of a death from an abortion in which only the second drug, Cytotec, (misoprostol) was used vaginally along with laminaria being inserted.

    13. June 2008 – Manon Jones, an eighteen- year-old student from Caernarfon, Gwynedd was six weeks pregnant when she took the RU 486 pills. Afterwards she felt light-headed and began to bleed abnormally. She was admitted to the hospital the next week, continued to bleed, was placed on life support and died. Post-mortem examination showed a very low blood count but also retained fetal parts in her womb.

    Concerned Women for America, a pro-life women’s group under the Freedom of Information Act, receive public documents from the FDA. These list over 600 adverse effects by women taking this drug. These included 220 cases of hemorrhage that were either life threatening or extremely serious, 71 of which required blood transfusions. In addition, 392 reports indicated women requiring surgery to repair damage resulting from the abortion including many under emergency conditions. As a result of this, many havepetitioned the FDA to remove this dangerous drug from the market before more women die.

    Short of death, the most serious concern is bleeding. Women who take RU 486 usually bleed for one or two weeks, with 10% bleeding more than one month. This leaves women exposed to infection for an extended period of time. The average woman loses four times the average blood from a standard surgical abortion. In European trials, at least one in every hundred women had to be hospitalized due to blood loss and needed a transfusion. One case illustrating this occurred during the official trials of RU 486 in the United States. A woman in Iowa almost died from hemorrhage from an incomplete RU 486 abortion. Multiple emergency blood transfusions saved her life. (This according to Dr. M. Loviere, Waterloo Courier, 9-24-95.)

    Much more detail could be given to the problems resulting from the use of this chemical abortion, including fetal deformity in babies delivered after failed use of these drugs. As a close observer of this issue from its beginning, I felt it was time to document these deaths and tell the world this is not a safe drug.

    July 2008

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  3. Erica, this plainly states that levonorgestrel causes changes in the endometrium that prevent a fertilized egg from implanting. Ergo, it's a chemical abortion. It is NOT medicine.

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  4. The morning after pill is not RU 486 (which is an abortion pill). The morning after pill, Plan B is a high dose of normal birth control. Plan B can be bought at the pharmacy, RU 486 is prescriped by a doctor. This blog post was about Plan B, not RU 486 - they are different drugs altogether. Conception can take up to 5-10 days to occur, it does not occur immediately after sex (it can, but usually does not). Thus, if you stop ovulation you stop conception.

    Yes, you could use spermicide, or any other contraception. But, it if fails there is emergency contraception. It is called "Plan B" for a reason, not to be used as a regular birth control. Plus, if a woman is raped, she has no control over using any contraception - which is why emergency rooms give Plan B to rape victims

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  5. Erica, I linked you to a paper out of the U.K. that clearly states that levonorgestrel (which is what Plan B is) causes changes in the lining of the uterus that prevent the newly-conceived baby from implanting in the uterus. Why don't you address that?

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  6. There is only one over-the-counter pill that works to prevent pregnancy and does not abort babies: One aspirin held tightly between the knees.

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  7. Norm D Plume,

    Excellent comment. Should be more of it for those who are single

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  8. What is done by Big Pharma is for profit:

    It, too is not Medicine, but chemical poisoning;

    Now, they peddle poison and the FDA goes along with it

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