Abortion Pills: Medical and Legal Issues
While Mifepristone, the
so-called "abortion pill," has been declared generally safe to use,
nearly all women who use mifepristone and misoprostol have reported
experiencing the following adverse reactions: Abdominal pain or cramping (96%);
nausea (61%); headache (31%), vomiting (26%); diarrhea (20%); dizziness (12%),
and; uterine hemorrhage (5%).
In most clinical trials
long before the approval of this abortion pill, almost all women who applied
the abortion procedure experienced the mentioned side effects. As a
consequence, about one out of 14 women using RU-486 had experienced severe
bleeding requiring medical attention. Since its approval, the drug had been
implicated with the death of 14 women in America. Here are other details worth
noting:
Two women died after a
rupture on ectopic pregnancies.
About eight women went
through a systemic bacterial infection.
Four women died from
overdose and toxic shock.
Others who survived had
faced severe complications, including heart attack.
Other reported incidents
and reactions from taking this abortion pill can be noted during Canada's
clinical test of the drug in 2001, when a Canadian woman died of septic shock
that resulted from a clostridium infection. In 2011, a Portuguese girl also
died of a septic shock just five days after taking the abortion pill. A total
of five non-American women have died resulting from taking mifepristone.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
have
recently required special distribution rules for RU-486. They considered the
manufacturer's information and warning for physicians that explains that the
drug should be supplied only to licensed physicians who signed a Prescriber's
Agreement.
With Mifeprex being a
prescription drug, it should not be available to the public even through
licensed pharmacies. Moreover the label bears a caution that this only be
administered by medical professionals.
Considering all of these
medical concerns, most clinics have thoroughly explained that all administering
the drug will definitely be observed by their medical staff. Furthermore, the
World Health Organization (WHO) significantly has observed that about 95 out of
100 women have had abortion successfully with these pills, if taken within 9
weeks of gestation. Likewise, the complications brought up by RU-486 have
deemed to be manageable and can be treated likewise.
Considering this
information, you would be able to learn more about the proper way of taking
this particular drug and physicians about the so-called "abortion
drug" should be able to explain this to you. Women around the world are
generally concerned about the medical complications of the drug more than the
secondary emotional and socio-political effects.
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