Posted on 08/15/2005 4:28:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Health officials are investigating whether there are any links in the cases of four California women — at least two in Los Angeles County — who have died since 2003 of massive infection after taking the so-called abortion pill, RU-486, and a follow-up drug.
The state and federal probe follows an announcement last month by the Food and Drug Administration, after the June death of a Sherman Oaks woman, warning doctors and patients of the potential for serious bacterial infection under certain circumstances.
At the heart of the inquiry in California are why and how the deadly infections developed and whether more women might have been harmed.
"That's something we don't have an explanation for right now," said Dr. L. Clifford McDonald, an epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which is investigating the deaths along with the Food and Drug Administration, the California Department of Health Services and the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
The FDA is also working with the makers of the two drugs to see if they were contaminated with an unusual bacterium found in the bloodstream of two of the women who died. Complicating matters, neither woman showed all of the usual symptoms of an infection.
The medical mystery in California is fueling the already charged debate over the risks, rights and morality of abortion.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
***.....At least two of the women who died were prescribed the medications at clinics in the L.A. area. Patterson got the drugs at a clinic in the Bay Area city of Hayward. Authorities have not identified the fourth woman.
The unusual bacterium Clostridium sordellii was found in the bloodstreams of two of the four women who died of infection, Patterson and Chanelle Bryant, 22, of Pasadena. Investigators are trying to figure out whether the other two women also showed evidence of the bacterium, which McDonald said produces an effect akin to toxic shock syndrome.
"In the case of Clostridium sordellii and toxic shock in general," McDonald said, "it's a bacterium producing a toxin, which has some effect on the ability to maintain blood pressure. Clostridium sordellii produces two large toxins. Either or both of these affect the lining of blood vessels that keep fluid in the bloodstream.".......***
***.....Brenda Vise, a 38-year-old former nurse, died in the hospital where she once worked after a ruptured tubal pregnancy. In eight to 10 calls over two days to the clinic that gave her RU-486, she was told the severe pain and cramps she felt were normal.
"The real problem is the use of this drug masks symptoms of ectopic pregnancies," Samples said....***
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/paper410/news/2004/11/17/Health/Fda-Decides.Abortion.Pill.Is.Safe.Option-807412.shtml
***.....Monty Patterson, Holly Patterson's father, believes that there is no way to administer Mifeprex and misoprostol safely, in part because it is impossible to tell the difference between the desired effects of the drugs and the signs of a serious infection. Women who take the drugs, he said, are told that they should expect abdominal pain and heavier bleeding than during a normal menstrual period, results that are similar to the drugs' danger signs.
In addition, the women who had Clostridium sordellii did not run a fever, a normal side effect of an infection, according to the FDA. ...***
Thanks Cin, I have been trying to warn people about this since the FDA banned it before...no one listens.
This doesn't even mention the deaths in Texas (3 as I know of), New Jersey and other states. The only reason we have knowledge of these are because lawsuits were filed. How many parents, relatives, husbands or boyfriends would file a case...not many. This is the oxymoron: We want to make abortion safe and rare, yet you can abort up till the child's shoulders come out. If you remember Roe was for rape, incest and the health of the mother. Nearing 45 million abortions now, less than 1% were for these.
Everyone laughed when people spoke of the slippery slope...
Now that we've starved a disabled woman for 13 days (and right away right-to-die legislation was brought to many states), the Groningen protocol wanted to euthanize up to the age of twelve (doctors say, not parents...btw), the depopulation and lack of replacement births in Europe, China and its one child policy (changing now because they see where its going...not enough women to repopulate later), the high incidence of cancer in younger women due to prolonged birth control or abortions and social security combined with immigration problems. If these children, even just the second and third trimester ones, were allowed to live...you would have your workforce to provide for social security and wouldn't have to depend on illegals... not to mention feminists who don't know what makes them a woman or who they are.
It may sound crazy...but it's true.
It is far better to kill a baby than allow a woman to risk her life to give birth to it. This person obviously isn't considering the 100% death rate with abortions. Come to think of it, when the mother is killed also, wouldn't that make it even riskier than childbirth?
I wonder what the infection was, in this case. Listeria? Strep? It's no surprise that some patients are having problems, since this medication causes the developing baby to die and there is a time lapse before the dead tissue is expelled. There is bound to be an opportunistic organism ready to cause an infection.
Yes : Thats what I was thinking. I know nothing of medicine, but it seems that if you have something dead lying around inside your body that things is liable to become septic.
You're right Cin, the symptoms are masked because they are the usual. I personally went with a friend who had horrible cramps/bleeding. The emergency room wouldn't take her and told her to call the clinic she got it from.
They were closed and no one answered the hotline. I truly thought she was going to die in my house. We went to the clinic the next day and they told her to go to the emergency room...they would call, they again wouldn't except her. We went to another two hospitals further away and the last one saved her. Septic infection had already set in, she made it just in time. If she wasn't so ashamed, she would have sued...I told her to. I didn't want to go with her in the first place but I shudder to think what may have happened had I not. These clinics have no real regulations like hospitals. The ER's don't want to get sued because they know what happens, they don't want to touch it.
That makes it a twofer pill. Mother killed by the pill that she was using to murder her child.
And this is the lie. They market it as "if the embryo is embedded nothing will happen, if not it will be safely expelled". Anybody with a brain can tell this isn't safe.
The correlation between RU486 and DEATH has been known for over 10 years. But, its for killing babies, so they have deemed this "side effect" as acceptable.
"That makes it a twofer pill. Mother killed by the pill that she was using to murder her child."
- The last thing she probably saw was her aborted child crying face as she was dragged to hell by demons.
The only light at the end of the tunnel I see is liberals dying themselves out of exsistence.
That's life-saving information.
Thank you.
I said that to my girlfriend the other day...she said "they're not just killing liberals...that's the problem". Point taken.
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