{"id":289311,"date":"2023-04-19T08:43:03","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=289311"},"modified":"2023-04-17T16:15:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-17T21:15:22","slug":"abortionist-book-dangerous-abortion-herbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-book-dangerous-abortion-herbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortionist promotes book detailing dangerous herbal abortion methods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On\u00a0Twitter<\/a> last month, abortionist<\/a> Leah Torres<\/a> recommended a 2008 book that instructs women how to induce abortions on themselves using plants and herbs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Extremely dangerous methods of ‘dubious’ effectiveness<\/strong><\/p>\n

Even though the authors of the 2008 book admit that their methods have “dubious” effectiveness and are “inherently dangerous,” they give detailed instructions on how to find, prepare, and use plants to (they claim) cause abortions.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book describes a plant, instructs how to harvest\/acquire it, discusses its alleged historical use, makes unsubstantiated claims about its effectiveness, then gives possible side effects and dangers. Following this, the book gives detailed instructions on how to prepare parts of these plants to self-induce an abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n

The book cites very few studies on these plants and any examples it gives of their successful use in aborting a baby date back to the 1800s or earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Potentially life-threatening, toxic effects<\/strong><\/p>\n

The book warns of the following “signs of toxicity” for various herbs<\/a> that it recommends, including:<\/span><\/p>\n