Such cute little baby!
Posted on 07/10/2009 1:20:36 PM PDT by wagglebee
WASHINGTON, D.C., July 10, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) - About one out of four children aborted early in America are killed by the abortion pill rather than a surgical procedure, according to an Associated Press report.
The report concerns a Planned Parenthood study published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine touting the improved safety of a drug used in abortions that is now dissolved orally instead of vaginally - the latter being a technique that is more prone to causing severe and sometimes fatal infections.
The chemical abortion method consists of first distributing mifepristone, also known as RU-486, which kills the child before misoprostol is administered two days later, a drug that induces the body to expel the corpse.
A spokeswoman with Danco Laboratories LLC, the manufacturer of Mifeprex (mifepristone), told the AP that such "medical" abortions account for about one quarter of all early abortions, and about one third of early abortions at Planned Parenthood.
The AP reports that the use of RU-486 has risen steadily since its approval in 2000, despite its availability only in clinics or doctors' offices rather than pharmacies.
Planned Parenthood researchers published a study in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine analyzing chemical abortions at Planned Parenthood between 2005 and mid-2008, and found that the change in the misoprostol's administration reduced the risk of serious infection from about 1 in 1,000 to 0.06 in 1,000.
The study did not address mifepristone's side effects, including abdominal pain, uterine cramping, and vaginal bleeding or spotting, which almost all patients experienced in clinical trials for an average of 9-16 days. About 8% of the women experienced bleeding for 30 days or more.
In 2007 the New England Journal of Medicine published a study showing that chemical abortions did not pose more of a risk for miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy, preterm births, or low birth weight than surgical abortions.
While the media reported the news as proof that the abortion pill is "safe," critics said the conclusion was misleading as the study failed to compare the rate of post-abortive complications with the rate of complications in women who had not aborted a previous child. That would have shown that the abortion pill was merely equally as likely as surgical abortions to dramatically increase the risk of such complications, as shown by several studies.
See related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Abortion Linked to Subsequent Pre-Term Births, New Research Again Confirms
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2009/jul/09070109.html
Abortion Pill not 'Safe' Despite Media Spin - Study Suggests Pill as Dangerous As Surgical Abortion
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2007/aug/07081601.html
The study did not address mifepristone's side effects, including abdominal pain, uterine cramping, and vaginal bleeding or spotting, which almost all patients experienced in clinical trials for an average of 9-16 days. About 8% of the women experienced bleeding for 30 days or more.
In other words, Planned Barrenhood focused on what benefits them and ignored everything else, including the fact that these pills are being used to MURDER BABIES.
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And people like this want to be in control of our Health Care system.....Makes you really secure with how they would view life saving proceedures.......NO THANKS! I don’t want someone who doesn’t respect human life in charge of mine!!!!!
Suicide by proxy.
Just as sick,misguided and morally reprehensible as the original.
“The chemical abortion method consists of first distributing mifepristone, also known as RU-486, which kills the child before misoprostol is administered two days later, a drug that induces the body to expel the corpse.”
In ‘The People’s Republik of Madistan’ where I live and work, they keep candy dishes of these pills available to all the girls on campus in dorm lobbies, at the pharmacy, the local coffee house, etc.
(Not really, but it’s very, very close.)
We will all report to a Higher Authority! Some sooner than others, but one day!!! God Help us.
The never addressed but surely one of the most insideous side effects of using these pills to abort/kill the conceived child is ... the female left alive become irrational, rabid, blind to conservative values liberals more often than not, because that is the method they’ve been taught to deal with the guilt—deny they’ve done anything wrong and spit on the notion of spiritual guilt.
Such cute little baby!
Too lazy to use birth control during sex but only too happy to kill another human being by using this post-sex exterminating pill. Sick people!!
Such cute little baby!
I see, you seem to believe the left's propaganda that because it doesn't LOOK like a baby, it's okay to kill it.
Let me ask you this, if this fertilized egg is allowed to develop naturally and does so without complications, what will it become OTHER THAN A BABY?
Let me ask you this, if this fertilized egg is allowed to develop naturally and does so without complications, what will it become OTHER THAN A BABY?
So, you didn't READ the thread?
We are talking about RU-486, NOT Plan B. RU-486 is an ABORTION PILL, it is designed to kill an embryo/fetus.
And I notice you missed the part of my question which said, "if this fertilized egg is allowed to develop naturally and does so without complications".
Or are you one of these types who believes that up until the moment of deliver that it only has the "potential to become a baby"?
Do you believe that women should have the right to abortion? Yes or no.
God has the right to play God. Do you?
Such cute little baby!
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Cuter than this one anyway.
They never want to consider that side of the coin.
I wish I hadn’t come back to this thread.
Eek! That wasn’t for you. It was for someone who needed to see what a baby is. You already know.
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