Posted on 05/04/2022 7:15:26 AM PDT by Red Badger
DIY medicine collectives are preparing for the horrifying prospect that Roe v. Wade will be overturned.
With the Supreme Court poised to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, an anarchist collective that makes DIY medicine has released detailed instructions for making abortion pills. The group has previously released instructions for making a DIY Epipen and for making daraprim, the pill that made “pharma bro” Martin Shkreli infamous.
The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective first demonstrated how to make misoprostol tablets, which are used to induce an abortion, at the Please Try This at Home conference in Pittsburgh in 2019. Last year, after Texas passed a near total abortion ban, Mixael Laufer, who runs the collective, published a 17-minute video explaining how to make the pills at home.
“The first thing to mention is this has been put together with a little bit of haste,” Laufer says. “There’s been a great deal of panic because the Republic of Texas has gotten up to some shenanigans to benefit people who are in power and to keep a bunch of other people powerless.”
Laufer repeatedly shared the video again Monday night after a leaked court decision showed that the Supreme Court is planning to overturn Roe v. Wade, which would automatically trigger total abortion bans in nearly half of U.S. states. When a Twitter user asked if there was a writeup of their "hypothetical" abortion pill manufacturing process, Laufer responded with a link to the video.
"Not hypothetical at all. Go forth and rock it," Laufer tweeted.
In the video, Laufer explains that, besides being used to medically induce abortions, misoprostol is also used to treat ulcers in horses. This makes misoprostol powder relatively easy to acquire from veterinary sources. (This is reminiscent of ivermectin, which is used to control parasites in horses but also became a favored—but ineffective—COVID treatment among conspiracy theorists. Ivermectin’s use in horses made it easier for humans to get without a prescription.)
Laufer explains in the video how to dose misoprostol and how to press it into pills using a scale, corn syrup, powdered sugar, a spray bottle, and a pollen press. They explain that a three-dose regimen of misoprostol is 85 percent effective in inducing abortion. If taken with mifepristone, another abortion pill, that rate rises to 95 percent effectiveness, though raw mifepristone is harder to source.
Motherboard cannot speak to the safety of making your own pills, and the Four Thieves Vinegar Collective has been criticized by some in the pharmaceutical and medical establishment who think that making DIY medicine isn't safe under any circumstances. In a progressive, just world, abortions would be free and safely administrated by medical professionals. But we have seen time and time again that attacks on abortion access lead to less safe abortion alternatives performed by a patient themselves or without medical supervision. If Roe is overturned, we are going to see more people seeking DIY abortion methods, which will include making their own abortion pills. Laufer says they hope that people who make the abortion pill are doing so proactively and as a precaution, and not under emergency circumstances.
The video is likely to help at least some people seeking abortions, though Laufer says that, in an emergency, people should seek out help from established health organizations that have for years been seeking to expand abortion access.
The fact that he had to make the video at all speaks to the horrifying nature of the world we’re finding ourselves in, and the potential lengths women might need to go to to have an abortion in a world without the protections of Roe v. Wade. Endless research has shown that whether it is legal or not, women will still have abortions, and that, if it is illegal, those abortions will be much more dangerous. A recent study suggested that an abortion ban would lead to 21 percent increase in pregnancy-related deaths, and a 33 percent increase in pregnancy-related deaths among Black women.
Ping.......................🤔
So do it yourself abortion pills are OK but don’t you dare to treat a cold or china flu or any other of their pandemics!
What could possibly go wrong with this?
/s
Murder Inc.
They could inject bleach. I hear that was effective for killing covid.
Fauci put a stop to something similar when people starting coming up with their own treatments for AIDS. I wonder what he’s going to do now?
So horse ulcer medicine to murder fetuses is okay but Ivermectin to save lives is very very bad.
That was exactly my first thought.
Until they were outlawed, they were called “M80’s”.
“This is reminiscent of ivermectin, which is used to control parasites in horses but also became a favored—but ineffective—COVID treatment among conspiracy theorists. Ivermectin’s use in horses made it easier for humans to get without a prescription.”
And there is the lie.🙄
Have fun rupturing your uterus.
Endless research has shown that whether it is legal or not, women will still have abortions, and that, if it is illegal
in one state, they can freely travel to a state where it is.
misoprostol is also used in humans to treat ulcers when ingested orally. For induced uterine shedding it is introduced vaginally in pill form. This is also the identical medication that is used when a woman has a miscarriage and has not passed the tissue products within a week of miscarriage date. 85% of the time misoprostol alone induces the passing of the tissue products of miscarriage without that a D & C must be done which is identical to a mechanical abortion. Most OBGYN will prescribe a three part course of misoprostol for first term miscarriage it makes the same medical sense to use it for inducing a miscarriage in the same time frame in the proper dose it is the safest means of causing the body to pass the fetal tissues, uterine lining and amniotic sac be it for a miscarriage or to induce a miscarriage it works both ways just as well. It is the first thing most OBGYN do when a woman has a sonogram where there is a lack of heartbeat thus indicating a miscarriage. At least argue from a standing of facts misoprostol is the go to drug to safely cause the uterus to expel its contents.
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.