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medical abortion is a procedure to end a pregnancy using medication instead of surgery. It involves taking specific drugs prescribed by a doctor to induce a miscarriage and terminate the pregnancy.
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The high court has rejected a legal attempt to allow women having an
early medical abortion to take some of their pills at home.
Women who seek
medical abortions in Brazil are also often subjected to sexual assault and humiliation.
Because of the cost of some drug regimes, this has penalizing effects for certain groups of women, including pregnant women
seeking medical abortions and women with HIV.
The unprofessional and unethical means by which the procedure was tested, the unknown long - term medical effects on women of the drugs involved, and the extreme dangers to the human gene pool posed by partially
completed medical abortions all suggest a strong societal interest in banning the «abortion cocktail.»
One of the studies, both of which are being published in The Lancet, shows that it is possible to replace the clinical follow - up examinations recommended today
with medical abortions that include a home pregnancy test.
«To call this an at - home abortion is deceptive,» Raymond, Klein, and Dumble noted
about medical abortions in general, «since most treatment transpires in the clinic, hospital, or office, and is extremely medicalized.»
These drugs were used primarily to treat cancer but they were also reasonably effective in
producing medical abortion, at least up to eight weeks gestation.
In their report What Do Women Want
During Medical Abortion, they found that only 24 percent of the women interviewed preferred to have the actual miscarriage at home; fully three - quarters of the women desired the hospital ambience with physicians, nurses, other women undergoing the identical experience, and support partners present.
In 1995, twenty - five years after my review, the New England Journal of Medicine carried a report that the combination of a powerful anticancer agent (methotrexate) and a relatively innocuous drug used primarily to treat gastric ulcer (misoprostol) will
effect medical abortion in 96 percent of women pregnant less than nine completed weeks, with no currently identifiable damage to the pregnant woman.
However the judge The Hon Mr Justice Supperstone, has ruled that Section 1 (3A) of the Abortion Act as amended in 1990 enables the Secretary of State to react to «changes in medical science» meaning that he can choose to change the current policy on where early
medical abortions take place.
The study is expected to form the basis of new international recommendations from WHO and a change in clinical practice
regarding medical abortions in Sweden and globally,» said Dr. Gemzell Danielsson.
In their book RU - 486: Misconceptions, Myths, and Morals, the feminists Janice G. Raymond, Renate Klein, and Lynette J. Dumble point out that
all medical abortions, far from being purely private affairs between women and their physicians, are even more public than the conventional surgical (suction) abortions.
A woman seeking
a medical abortion of any sort must submit to a general physical examination (to assure she is an apt candidate for the drugs in question) as well as to a pelvic examination.
And the falsity of claims that
medical abortions will «demedicalize» and «empower» women by granting «at - home» abortions will soon become apparent — allowing the pro-life movement to continue to focus its efforts on the offices of abortionists.
Medical abortions have less than 0.5 % risk of serious complications and do not affect a woman's health or future ability to become pregnant or give birth.
The report also states that slightly more than 16 percent of all abortions were
medical abortions.
Marie Stopes International: High court rules against women having the right to choose where they have a medical abortion
London, 14 February 2011: The high court today stood by the current interpretation of the Abortion Act, deciding that women should not have the right to choose where to complete
a medical abortion.
Two scientific studies led by researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet are expected to form the basis of new international recommendations for the treatment of
medical abortions and miscarriages.
[PRESS RELEASE 3/27/15] Two scientific studies led by researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet are expected to form the basis of new international recommendations for the treatment of
medical abortions and miscarriages.
If your litter is not wanted, please consider spaying the pregnant female or having
a medical abortion.
Richard Wolf of USA Today has a news update headlined «Justices won't hear Okla. appeal on
medical abortions; Decision comes after state Supreme Court ruled that the law, passed in 2011 but later struck down in court, would have banned all medical abortions.»
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