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The Newest Crisis Pregnancy Center Offer: “Abortion Reversals” (Daily Barf!)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/12/08/_abortion_reversals_the_latest_anti_abortion_offer_from_crisis_pregnancy.html ^ | Dec. 8 2014 | Amanda Marcotte

Posted on 12/09/2014 1:08:15 PM PST by Morgana

In order to justify the crush of medically unnecessary regulations on abortion clinics in recent years, it's become common for anti-choicers to pose as the protectors of women's health. Considering how much more dangerous childbirth is than abortion, this has always been a farcical claim, but now it appears some anti-choice activists are taking it a step further and actively encouraging women to take what could be a very serious risk to their health. Elizabeth Kulze at Vocativ reports that a crisis pregnancy center in Iowa (called the Women's Choice Center, one of the more obnoxious examples of anti-choice centers trying to trick you into thinking they provide abortion) is offering "abortion reversals" to women who are halfway through a medication abortion.

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: abortion; abortionreversals; barf; prolife
For you FReepers who were in need of an Ipecac....
1 posted on 12/09/2014 1:08:15 PM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana
how much more dangerous childbirth is than abortion

Depends on which patient you are referring to.

2 posted on 12/09/2014 1:22:01 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Morgana

As always, the main goal of the pro-abortionists is a dead baby.


3 posted on 12/09/2014 1:23:10 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Good Muslims, like good Nazis or good liberals, are terrible human beings.)
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To: Morgana

So, now it’s “anti-choice” if you CHOOSE to have a baby instead of aborting it?

And the statistics have always shown that abortions are more dangerous to the mother than live births.


4 posted on 12/09/2014 1:27:29 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Morgana; John Semmens

She writes like John Semmens, with one difference.

She’s serious.

(yeah, I know who she is).


5 posted on 12/09/2014 1:32:38 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: BenLurkin

Abortions and even miscarriages come with many dangers!!!!! Childbirth is NATURAL~!


6 posted on 12/09/2014 1:48:39 PM PST by buffyt ( Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said President Barack Obama encouraged Ferguson RIOTS!!!!!)
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To: Cicero

Abortions cause an increase in breast cancer dangers. Plus the body doesn’t go through the natural progression of pregnancy, and there are many complications. Heck I had a miscarriage and I had a LOT of complications from that! Then I was blessed to have three babies, whom I adore, all grown up now!


7 posted on 12/09/2014 1:49:51 PM PST by buffyt ( Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said President Barack Obama encouraged Ferguson RIOTS!!!!!)
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To: Morgana

“Considering how much more dangerous childbirth is than abortion...”

Dangerous for whom? Certainly not for the child!

This just shows how the pro-death crowd thinks. It doesn’t even cross their minds that two people (at least) are affected by abortion.


9 posted on 12/09/2014 2:30:28 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Morgana
This about that:

Abortion Activist Angry That Pro-Life Doctors are Saving Babies by Reversing Abortion Pill

by Kelsey Hazzard | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com

I’d like to think that if I were pro-choice, I wouldn’t be freaking out about abortion pill reversal.

In a nutshell: a mother who takes the first pill (misoprostol) of the chemical abortion, then regrets it, is prescribed the pregnancy hormone progesterone to prevent the embryo’s death. While nobody’s suggesting it will work 100% of the time—obviously if the misoprostol has already killed the embryo, there’s nothing you can do—early intervention could provide women with the ability to affect their choice for life. That’s both pro-life and pro-choice, right?

Of course, Amanda Marcotte begs to differ. And she really ties herself in knots doing it.

ru48616First, she can’t decide whether misoprostol is effective by itself or not. First she says that it is effective, just not ideal:

Misoprostol can work on its own—many black-market abortion pills are just misoprostol—but, according to the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, taking the mifepristone improves the likelihood of a safe, complete abortion.

But then Marcotte quotes Dr. Daniel Grossman from Ibis Reproductive Health (which supports abortion), who completely disagrees. In his account, misoprostol is highly ineffective, to the point that an abortion pill reversal amounts to a placebo:

Mifepristone “by itself is not an effective abortion regimen,” he said, and so many women who just take the first pill will not miscarry if they simply don’t take the second. If he had a patient who changed her mind halfway through, he explained, he would recommend doing nothing and monitoring the pregnancy to make sure it’s continuing normally. Marcotte also can’t decide where she stands on the safety of the progesterone injections. In one breath, she denounces it as a dangerous “experiment.”* (Of course, when abortionists deviate from the FDA protocol for the abortion pills themselves, killing eight women in the process, the correct term is “making it easier on the patient.”) In the next, she returns to Dr. Grossman, who “says that the progesterone probably won’t hurt a woman if she’s under medical supervision.” Which she would be, because shockingly, pro-life doctors are doctors too.

With all these contradictions it’s hard to figure out what Marcotte’s really getting at… until the piece’s final quote. Dr. Grossman is concerned that the advertising of this procedure could mislead the public about the prevalence of abortion regret. “In my experience caring for women seeking abortion, they don’t go into this lightly. They’re very clear about their decision…”

Can’t have women running wild through your carefully manicured narrative.

*The reversal protocol is only two years old, so published research is scant. I’d certainly like to see more. So far, though, there’s nothing to suggest that progesterone is harmful to pregnant women who have taken misoprostol. That’s unsurprising, since progesterone is naturally present in a pregnant woman’s body."

10 posted on 12/09/2014 6:57:26 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (God's grace has been revealed, and has made salvation possible for the whole human race. (Titus 2))
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