{"id":188562,"date":"2018-09-18T09:33:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T14:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=188562"},"modified":"2018-09-18T13:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T18:01:47","slug":"uk-abortion-pill-not-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/uk-abortion-pill-not-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"UK experts explain why at-home abortion pills aren’t so safe or simple"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(CMF Blog<\/a>)\u00a0Many abortion activists will have been delighted at the news<\/a> that women will be able to self-administer abortion pills in their own homes. The head of the RCOG [Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology] is on record claiming that having an abortion is no different to having a bunion removed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ironically, with this change that activists have been campaigning for, women will soon realise abortion is definitely not<\/em> the same as removing a bunion \u2013 when they see the baby they have to flush down the toilet.<\/p>\n

The boyfriend of one young girl describes what happened after his girlfriend took the second pill:<\/p>\n

\u2018The day she took the final pill and came back to my flat to wait for it to pass truly drew a new line in the sand. The hours of pain she suffered, it utterly ripped me apart to see her writhing in agony, interspersed with trips to the toilet as the process started. It culminated in one trip from which she didn\u2019t return, all I heard was sobs, drained of energy she couldn\u2019t even cry with the force the pain deserved. I soon discovered that it wasn\u2019t the pain the sobs were for, it was for what she had seen in the toilet. A recognisable shape. Then flushed away.<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n

But say we ignore any possible emotional damage to women (that not all will experience of course) and instead look at the claims being made that medical abortions are safe and self-administering the abortion pill is progress for women. What does the peer reviewed evidence show us?<\/p>\n

To explain the process, in a medical abortion an oral dose of mifepristone <\/em>is given at a clinic\/hospital which will (usually) kill the fetus. Women leave the hospital or clinic then, with the current system, return up to 48 hours later to be administered\u00a0misoprostol<\/em>, either orally or vaginally. This expels the dead fetus. The change is that women will not have to return to the clinic but can take the second pill outside of any clinical setting or medical oversight.<\/p>\n