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Well Amelia, so many ways to kill the yet to be born these days; was
wondering how easy it would be to put the ingredients of this abortion
pill into food, drink, animal foods, etc.
know nothing of this Danco, Inc - and the name of the manufacturers for
obvious reasons, kept hush hush for Eric Rudolph is at large yet (they
even tried to blame the Olympic bombing on him)....
Or is it some radical group trying to prove when you kill thorobreds all
hell break loose - but the little calf found in the pyramid of dead
bodies of cows and cattle charged with having foot and mouth disease,
etc., a woman had to fight to keep the life of this small calf - for you
see it was not a thorobred.
People all around the world protect their thorobreds and pedigree
animals and I want this same right too, to protect the pedigree of my
grandchildren in generations to come?
So was it something the mothers ate or drank = some pesticide or
exterminator poison in the green, green grass - something more at work
here than nature it would seem....another grand experiment?
The abortion pill - wonder what the ingredients are.
Most are aware that pesticide companies ae geared to go into chemical
warfare at drop of hat - and these pesticide companies are now merged
with pharmaceuticals?
So some beautiful horses are aborted - well beats having their heads
bashed in as they are born, right? But these, were very expensive
thorobreds of great value.
Looks like some kind of pay back here...
With love, from the EU????
We Americans were so unsophisticated it seems they did not think their
abortion pill would make big bucks over here......well what will be will
be, but let us be certain that Welfare would be mothers, get first crack
at them....
Saba
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Abortion pill heading to U.S. clinics as early as today
November 21, 2000
Web posted at: 3:59 a.m. EST (0859 GMT)
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Amid protest and praise, the first shipments
of the abortion pill, commonly known as RU-486, were expected to become
available to women in the United States today.
Danco Laboratories, which markets the pill, began shipping it Monday
under the name Mifeprex. A Danco spokeswoman told CNN the company has
received a large number of advance orders and information requests for
the drug, the subject of years of legal and ethical debate.
Authorities caution the pill likely will not create an immediate,
sweeping change in clinical procedures. Private doctors so far are slow
to embrace it, and it can take several days for the drug to take effect.
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The pill, whose manufacturer remains a secret, also only works in early
pregnancy, a caveat about which some women may be unaware.
"A woman might feel that all she has to do is take a pill and the
pregnancy kind of magically disappears, and of course that's not true,"
said Dr. Maureen Paul of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts
in Boston.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration gave final approval for the pill
in September.
Planned Parenthood said shipments of Mifeprex were being sent to about
60 centers in 16 states. Staff members have undergone training to offer
the early abortion option.
The treatment involves three visits to a doctor or clinic. Following a
physical exam, pregnancy test and ultrasound exam to date the pregnancy,
the woman is given three Mifeprex tablets to take in the office. Within
two days, the woman returns to the doctor's office and takes two tablets
of misoprostol, an FDA-approved drug to treat ulcers.
Mifeprex blocks the hormone progesterone that's needed for a pregnancy
to continue. Misoprostol causes the uterus to contract and expel the
fetus. Six hours following the dose of misoprostol, most women will
complete the abortion.
Bleeding or spotting can last an average of nine to 16 days. The woman
returns to the doctor a third time about 12 days after getting the drugs
to be sure the pregnancy has ended. Mifeprex, known generically as
mifepristone is provided directly to doctors' offices or clinics and
will not be available through pharmacies.
Studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine and Archives of
Family Medicine in 1998 show the pill is 92 percent effective in
terminating pregnancies up to 49 days in duration, or within the first
seven weeks of pregnancy. If the procedure fails, the woman has a
surgical abortion.
Ninety-five percent of the women in the U.S. studies of the drug said
they would recommend the pill regimen to others. Among the women in
which the treatment failed, 86 percent said they would still recommend
it to others.
The side effects of the early abortion procedure are similar to those of
a spontaneous miscarriage: uterine cramping, bleeding, nausea and
fatigue.
"Mifepristone gives women another option. Many women prefer it because
they feel it's a more natural option compared to surgical abortion,"
Gloria Feldt of Planned Parenthood said. "But that's not true for all
women. In France for example, about half the women choose the pill and
the other half choose to have a surgical procedure."
The European version of the pill, RU-486, was first approved for use in
September, 1988, in France. The drug was developed by the pharmaceutical
firm Roussel-Uclaf. In 1991 RU-486 was approved for use in Britain and
in 1992 it was approved for use in Sweden.
It is estimated that approximately 500,000 women in Europe have had
medical abortions using the pill.
Roussel-Uclaf would not market the drug in the United States or any
other country where the company perceived that political and social
conditions were unreceptive. In 1994 the drug maker donated the U.S.
patent rights for mifepristone to the Population Council, a New
York-based nonprofit research institution.
In 1996 the FDA gave the drug conditional approval, indicating it was
safe and effective.
The Population Council granted Danco Laboratories, a new women's health
pharmaceutical company, a license to manufacture, market and distribute
the drug. After one manufacturer backed out of the project, Danco
identified manufacturers willing to produce mifepristone. The identity
of the manufacturers has not been released.
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