{"id":189932,"date":"2018-10-26T08:31:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T13:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=189932"},"modified":"2018-10-24T00:35:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T05:35:10","slug":"first-trimester-works-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/first-trimester-works-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"How a first trimester abortion works: The Abortion Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"
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According to the Guttmacher Institute, the former research arm of Planned Parenthood, most abortions —\u00a089 percent<\/a>\u00a0— are done in the first trimester, or the first 12 weeks of pregnancy. Included in this number is a significant number of early abortions done by the RU486 abortion pill regimen, which consists of two pills — mifepristone and misoprostol — which have different functions in the abortion process. The Guttmacher Institute notes that “Medication abortions” — a.k.a. the abortion pill — “accounted for 31% of all nonhospital abortions in 2014, and for 45% of abortions before nine weeks\u2019 gestation.”\u00a02<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

While abortions in the United States are on a downward trend overall, abortions by pill have continued to increase in popularity, going “from 6% of all nonhospital abortions in 2001 to 31% in 2014….” adds the pro-abortion organization.<\/p>\n

But this abortion method, like all methods, has its risks. Some women taking the abortion pill have reported a significant amount<\/a> of bleeding, severe cramping, sweating, shaking, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, and headache<\/a>. Death has occurred as well.<\/p>\n

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According to the website AbortionProcedures.com<\/a>, the procedure goes like this:<\/p>\n

The woman visits an abortion clinic or doctor\u2019s office and ingests pills containing Mifepristone (also known as RU-486) at the clinic. This drug blocks the action of the hormone called \u201cprogesterone,\u201d which is naturally produced by the mother\u2019s body to enable the mother to sustain and nourish the pregnancy. When RU-486 blocks progesterone, the lining of the mother\u2019s uterus breaks down, cutting off blood and nourishment to the baby, who then dies inside the mother\u2019s womb. Twenty-four to forty-eight hours later, the woman ingests another drug called Misoprostol (also called Cytotec), administered orally or vaginally, which causes contractions and bleeding to expel the baby from the womb.<\/em><\/p>\n

READ: First trimester babies aren\u2019t blobs of tissue \u2014 they\u2019re amazingly complex<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Anthony Levatino, a former abortionist who performed more than 1,200 abortions, explains the procedure in the illustrated video below:<\/p>\n