Live
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abortion
Be careful what you attempt to demystify.
At 4:08 p.m. on Feb. 18 micro-blogger Angie Jackson began posting the
blow-by-blows of her RU-486 abortion on Twitter. "I took the first pill
a little under 2 hours ago," she tweeted.
The 27-year-old's intention, she later told ABC News, was to
"demystify" RU-486 abortions.
Jackson had announced her pregnancy on Twitter Feb. 13, even before
telling the boyfriend ("BF") she and her 4-year-old son have been
living with since last December.
BF was on board with aborting his offspring, so when it came down to
which type, four-weeks pregnant Jackson chose the RU-486 at-home
medical abortion, which the FDA states can be prescribed up to 49 days,
or seven weeks, after the first day of a mother's last period.
RU-486 abortions are the coming rage, much less hassle for abortion
profiteers than surgical abortions. The mother takes an RU-486 pill
(aka mifepristone or mifeprex) at the clinic, which kills the baby, and
follows up at home with one or two doses of cytotec (aka misoprostol)
pills to cause contractions to expel the baby. All for $480, as Angie
tweeted.
The bonus for abortion clinics is if an RU-486 abortion doesn't work,
which occurs 7.9 percent of the time according to RU-486's label, there
is no guarantee, so mothers must then undergo and pay for surgical
abortions – abortion double-dipping.
Notwithstanding that, along with serious, life-threatening
complications that can lead to death, as has happened at least eight
times in the U.S. since RU-486 was legalized in 2000, are RU-486
abortions generally less hassle for aborting moms?
Jackson thought so, basing her decision on the fact her abortion would
"be over in 4-8 hrs," as she initially tweeted, and done in the comfort
of her home, since she was frightened of surgery.
After visiting her local Planned Parenthood, Jackson again tweeted her
abortion experience would be a "4 hour bleed-out," so this was
apparently the official teaching Angie received.
But the first rule of demystifying is one must herself be demystified
before attempting to demystify. If not, the demystifying process may
not go as anticipated, which is what happened in Jackson's case.
Only because Angie decided to live tweet her RU-486 abortion did we
learn in actuality it's a long, drawn out, painful process. For that
reason I thought Angie's exposé was a worthwhile educational
experience
for us all.
Here are some common adverse reactions, according to the RU-486
packaging:
Nearly all of the women … will report adverse reactions, and many …
report more than one. … 80 to 90 percent of women reported bleeding
more heavily than they do during a heavy menstrual period. … Women also
typically experience abdominal pain, including uterine cramping. Other
commonly reported side effects were nausea, vomiting and diarrhea …
pelvic pain, fainting, headache, dizziness … fatigue … back pain. …
That's sobering enough on paper, but how does reality play out?
For nine days, from Feb. 19-27, Jackson tweeted about such severe
cramps she had difficulty walking across the room. She went through 17
Vicodin in six days and at a point soon after requesting a prescription
for another 20.
Jackson tweeted nausea, vomiting, backaches, headaches and bleeding.
Five days into her abortion experience, Angie commented on another
blog, "Honestly I had no idea this would go on so long. I thought the
entire abortion would take a few hours, as I'd read in a few stories.
..."
At the bottom of this column you can read what Jackson's suffering
looked like in real time, where I've synopsized nine days of her tweets.
Planned Parenthood obviously did not explain the reality of an RU-486
abortion to Jackson, nor did any of her other sources.
But Edouard Sakiz, former chairman of Roussel Uclaf, the company that
developed RU-486, stated:
As abortifacient procedures go, RU-486 is not at all easy to use. ...
True, no anesthetic is required. But a woman who wants to end her
pregnancy has to "live" with her abortion for at least a week using
this technique. It's an appalling psychological ordeal.
Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, who invented RU-486, stated:
It's insulting to women to say that abortion now will be as easy as
taking aspirins. It is always difficult, psychologically and
physically, sometimes tragic.
Jackson stopped tweeting her symptoms on Feb. 27, when she realized I
was reposting them on my blog. But she wrote the evening of March 2,
"In real life, I had a terrible day & don't wanna talk about it."
So whatever the physical, emotional, psychological toll Jackson has
endured up to this point, it's not over. How many millions of other
mothers have undergone the same ghastly experience?
My intent here is not to drive mothers to undergo surgical abortions
rather than RU-486 abortions. They're no picnic, either.
All of this was just to say RU-486 is no abortion panacea, except for
those selling it.
Following are some of Jackson's tweets detailing her ordeal.
Contact: Jill Stanek
Source:
WorldNetDaily
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