{"id":207819,"date":"2019-08-01T10:31:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T15:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=207819"},"modified":"2019-07-31T18:09:18","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T23:09:18","slug":"warns-home-remedies-abortion-encourages-abortion-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/warns-home-remedies-abortion-encourages-abortion-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Article warns against home remedies for abortion… then encourages at-home abortion pill use"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In its final season, the Netflix show “Orange Is the New Black” (OITNB) features an abortion plotline that is generating buzz. A pro-abortion writer at Refinery29<\/a> rightly notes with alarm the circumstances in which desperate women turn to unsafe means (like home remedies) in an attempt to induce abortions on themselves. Yet, the Refinery29 post goes on to fully endorse the chemical abortion pill, which comes with\u00a0numerous risks to the mother<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In OITNB, <\/em>the character of a\u00a0migrant woman from Guatemala becomes pregnant after rape and attempts to induce an abortion by ingesting parsley tea. This dangerous practice is recommended on obscure internet message boards and in some traditional medicinal practices. A disturbing 2003 study<\/a> of self-induced abortion, including using parsley, was inconclusive, but found \u201cthe ingestion of plants to induce abortion involves the risk of severe morbidity and mortality.”<\/p>\n

Far from her home and pregnant after rape, the character is moved by desperation to attempt to end her child\u2019s life by a dangerous means that threatened her own life. The attempted abortion was unsuccessful, and the mother received medical care at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility. However, the pro-abortion writer claims the story \u201cended on a hopeful note\u201d because the woman\u2019s child was eventually aborted after the character Fig (played by Alysia Reiner) ensures that the woman undergoes an\u00a0abortion via the abortion pill<\/a>.\u00a0According to Refinery29, the abortion \u201cserves as a poignant reminder that not every person in prison has a Fig to advocate for their health and safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Who\u2019s behind a study pushing easier abortion pill access? People who stand to gain from it.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

But aside from the fact that no one was advocating for the \u201chealth and safety\u201d of the preborn child conceived in rape through no fault of her own, and no one was advocating that the woman\u2019s trauma be addressed by means other than killing her child — suggesting that a pharmaceutical medication abortion is the \u201cright\u201d way to manage abortion sends a dangerous message.<\/p>\n

Women in difficult circumstances are increasingly turning to the internet<\/a> to buy unregulated abortion pills, which, despite not being “home remedies” like parsley, still carry with them\u00a0potentially serious dangers<\/a> for mothers, in addition to their life-ending properties when it comes to preborn children — whether purchased legally or illegally. And pro-abortion groups are attempting to push the Food and Drug Administration to lift its safeguards surrounding abortion pills so that prescribers no longer have to be qualified to deal with any possible complications of the pills.<\/p>\n