Posted on 07/25/2005 12:50:36 PM PDT by churchillbuff
Not sure of the stats for RU-486. Most abortions are still surgical. Some reports have the total numbers going down, but who can be sure. The propaganda of presenting to naive and uninformed young women the promise of a "pill" which could "safely" terminate unwanted pregnancies is truly demonic and diabolical in the extreme. If anything, it would probably increase abortion rates in the long run. It also involves MORE people in the whole abortion process - the pharmacists, the clerks, the drivers who delivers these death pills, etc. Dark irony to the culture of death.
More details here would be interesting. A good reporter would have provided them. How badly did they not follow the instructions? Did they take the pills 15 minutes further apart than they should have (meaningless) or did they pop like 10 of them in 5 minutes (significant).
It's a human pesticide. I cannot imagine it being "safe" under any conditions.
Mother Nature - let's not mention God - is sacred until someone has a baby on the way.
The abortion industry sold women a crock that RU-486 was simple and safe. Fact is, a chemically induced miscarriage without adequate physician supervision, depending on scrupulous adherence to the instructions, is anything but simple and safe.
The DUmmies are doing everything from blaming the "religious right" to saying it is safer than childbirth.
BARF ALERT-
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1650841
Gee, I thought it would take at least 10 or more posts before someone came up with the answer!
Why are they puzzled? I remember reading about the dangers of this drug long before it came to the USA. Death was only one of many serious health related problems it caused. You know a society is desperate to kill babies when it lets a product like this be marketed to do it.
This is the kind of thing pro-lifers warned about, but of course, the left didn't want to listen.
No, this drug (Mifeprex, RU-486, or mifepristone) is a real abortion of an embryo, and so it must be prescribed by a real doctor. It is administered within a few weeks of conception and requires several doctor visits.
You're probably thinking of the so-called morning-after pill, which is like a high dose of birth control pills taken within 3 days or so to induce a period and therefore avoid implantation of a possible zygote (whether or not it exists). This is far less risky to the mother's health than an abortion of an implanted embryo or fetus. Pharmacists can sell this drug behind the counter without a doctor's prescription, at least in some states.
Yes, it's over the counter, although the European makers said that it should only be taken under a doctor's supervision, including a couple of visits. Even that, of course, is highly dangerous.
The abortion cabal is so desperate to kill babies, that they could care less how many women they maim or kill in the process. And the media and judges are only to eager to cover for them.
Sorry, I take that back, see #29.
It wasn't marketed as safe as much as it was marketed as private. A woman could terminate her pregnancy without walking through a gauntlet of protesters and being subjected to the verbal and physical assaults that going to a women's health clinic often entails.
When RU-486 first came out it was well known that using this drug would be a messy, bloody, and potentially dangerous undertaking.
Because there is a God?
Four out of 460,000 women who have taken the drug have died of a blood infection that might not even be related to the drug, and you think this is evidence of God's work?
You and I knew that, but that sure wasn't the impression the MSM gave the ordinary jane.
And what is this gauntlet nonsense? I drive by an abortuary every day, and another at least once a week. There is a very rare weekend protest, but other than that, nothing.
My reaction, too. Trouble is they'd rather not believe that.
Murderer mothers are dying--oh, the irony.
ping.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.