The Real Science Of Abortion Drugs Summary

In the news article “Abortion: Every Woman’s Rights” Sharon Smith wrote an article about women’s rights to get abortions prior to the hearing of the Planned Parenthood v. Casey court case, “which threatened to severely restrict women access to abortion” (Smith). Women wanted reproductive control over their lives and felt that they were not equal to men no matter what advances they got at work and how high their level of education was. The women’s right movement wanted women to have the choice of abortion for all women, the rich and the poor. In the US, thirty- seven states did not provide

Abortion is defined as the termination of pregnancy at any stage that does not result in birth. What a lot of people don’t realize is a miscarriage is also considered an abortion even though it is not medically induced; it is called a spontaneous abortion because it is not a medical procedure. Recently a study was done and it showed that the number of abortions worldwide have gone down considerably because of family planning, having reasonable birth control methods introduced, the prices for them lowered and the availability of them are accessible by the younger generation. More and more we are seeing young women using abortion as a birth control method, this is making the

In addition, abortion is a major topic in America. Some people believe it is a woman’s right to decide on whether or not they want the pregnancy, and some believe that no matter what the view is it is considered murder. However, by placing emergency contraceptives on the shelf, as Nucatola states, this will ultimately lower the abortion rate. Let’s face it, everyone is human and everyone makes mistake, if doctors and pharmacist are able to come up with a solution to end unwanted pregnancies without performing abortion, would people be for it or against it? Unfortunately, although a solution was found, emergency

Abortion really today has been a very controversial issue in today’s society. An interesting claim within it is that abortion can be done safely through the use of medical abortion and although medical abortions can be safe and trustworthy as experts might say, there still are risks that women will have to face and eventually take after abortion. Major types of risks can be pelvic infections, blood clots in the uterus or maybe a torn cervix. These are just few out of many health problems caused from abortion.

In 2009, Calvin R. Sumner worked full-time at Lilly USA, LLC and is a minor stock shareholder. Now Sumner is working for Biobehavioral Diagnostics Company. Susan Gathercole is the Unit Director at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. Linda Wietecha and David Williams were also working at Lilly USA, LLC, while this paper was being put together. They were also minor stock shareholders. Millie Hollandbeck was a full-time worker for Lilly USA, LLC. As a clinical investigator for Eli Lilly and Company, Michael Greenbaum, has been quite busy since 2009. Michael was also a speaker’s bureau for Eli Lilly and Company. Richard Rubin has done and accepted many things from Eli Lilly and Company. Richard has accepted research grants, he was involved

Plan B is a extremely sensitive topic and very debated issue, both for advocates who believe emergency contraception will lower the number of unplanned pregnancies and abortions, and for challengers who believe that using Plan B amounts to an abortion. Pro-life activists and politicians have been pushing to redefine pregnancy as beginning at fertilization, but the medical community considers a pregnancy to be established only after implantation of a fertilized egg has happened. Pro-life campaigners are trying to persuade women that Plan B causes abortions by creating a hostile setting within the uterus and averts implantation of an egg with the result being the termination of a pregnancy. “The use of Plan B has significantly reduced the number of unwanted pregnancies as well as the number of abortions that would have taken place if these pregnancies were not prevented through the use of emergency contraception.” (The Emergency Contraception Debate By Dawn Stacey, PhD,

The issue of abortion is very complex since it raises many issues. People not only have to consider the legal aspect of abortion, but also its medical, ethical, social, biological, and religious aspects, which are still widely debated. First of all, when considering abortion, it is imperative to make sure the mother is safe, which is why people advocate medical procedures over surgical procedures due to the former having less health risks. The drug mifepristone is highly effective and is commonly used to block the production of the hormone that is responsible for proper fetal development and is usually used up to sixty-three days after the beginning of the last menstrual period. In regards to ethical issues, there are the two extremes, the pro-life supporters and the pro-choice supporters, and the individuals with various moderate views justifying abortion depending on the status of the fetus, the rights of both the woman and the fetus,

A quick history of abortion pills and how they came to be comes from WebMD. The top drug used for abortions is mifepristone also known as RU-486. Testing of the drug began in 1983 when the FDA issued a permit. Jan. 1993 President Clinton asked for the FDA to reconsider their import ban. In 1994-1995 the Population Council the U.S. patent rights for mifepristone, and clinical trials began. In September 1996 the FDA issued an approval for RU-486 to be used as a safe alternative to surgical abortion, but they also said, they wanted more information on how the drug was manufactured and labeled before they could make their final decision. On September 28, 2000 the FDA approved RU-486 as a method for early medical abortion.

The article that I chose is called "What choice?", and was published by TIME magazine on January 14, 2013. The author briefly discusses the various arguments made in favor of supporting abortion in the United States, as well as some reasons why the Pro-choice movement isn't fully implemented after the U.S Supreme court ruling Roe v. Wade was enacted. The article continuously draws back to the Red River Woman's clinic in North Dakota to emphasize some issues faced by the patients, physicians, and staff. Overall, the article made me consider some views regarding the legalization of abortion and how it was carried out. Nonetheless, my views supporting Pro-life has not changed.

Abortion is never an easy decision, but women have been making the choice for thousands of years. It has become a large dilemma since 1973, when the U.S. Supreme Court passed a law making the procedure legal, and an even larger controversial issue. The controversy is divided into “Pro-Choice” and Pro-Life” views. Pro-Choice supporters believe that the woman should have to choice whether to abort or not. Pro-Life supporters believe that it should be illegal to abort and preformed. However, there are many ways for this procedure to be performed. Abortion still remains today a controversial issue, by who should determine if it is the right thing to terminate a pregnancy or not and by how the procedure should be preformed.

Waiting eagerly for a decision from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), pro-choice and pro-life activists rallied to voice their opinions on the drug mifepristone, also known as RU-486. However, the battle has just begun because RU-486, otherwise known as the abortion pill, was just approved for use in the United States on September 28, 2000. This controversial drug, first used in France, has been sparking debates in the U.S. ever since it was discovered in 1980. Now that it has been approved, many argue that this drug will make abortion more prevalent; however, others believe the approval of RU-486 is a positive decision and can greatly benefit women in the future.

The approval of the Morning After pill hits hard with Christian and other conservative groups considering that the Christian faith does not believe in abortion of any kind. Ever since the FDA approved the Plan B pill for over-the-counter access, pro-life conservative Christian groups have continued to voice their opinion against the pill. Sheryl Blunt’s article, Morning-After Headache, quotes many Christian individuals on the subject including Christian obstetrician Gene Rudd who said, “‘the way they get around this is by redefining 'abortion' and 'pregnancy,' said Gene Rudd, an obstetrician and associate executive director of the Christian Medical Association. ‘We know that half of the women out there believe life begins at fertilization. No one denies that there is or can be a post-fertilization effect with this drug, but no one calls that abortion. It's imperative from an ethical standpoint to make that known.’” Although, many religious groups are fully opposing to the pill, there are also those who remain to both opposing sides. Mitt

In the United States today, 25% of all pregnancies end in abortion (Abortion: All Sides). With so many lives in the balance, one of the primary arguments has become the physical health of women who have abortions. Of the women that previously had a surgical abortion 90% said they would prefer the pill if they had another abortion and would recommend it to others (Robinson). However one of the side effects of RU 486 is bleeding up to 9 days, compared to a surgical abortion’s five day duration (Robinson). The recovery process is quicker with a surgical abortion but more traumatic. One death in 200,000 occur with a surgical abortion, compared to one in 500,000 with the abortion pill. Both of these alternatives are far safer for the mother than childbirth that claims one death in every 14,300 births (Robinson). These statistics prove that the safest alternative for the mother in the event of a pregnancy is an abortion using the abortion pill and the most dangerous is going through with childbirth. However the safest thing for the child is natural childbirth by far. The voice of the life in question is never heard and it has a one hundred percent chance of death in the first 2 cases.

Partial-birth abortions in the third trimester, and the recent “day-after” or the RU-486 pill, now add a new attitude on the abortion issue. Partial-birth abortions and abortions in the third trimester are exceedingly controversial, because they involve the termination and/or expulsion of an actual fetus from the womb, whereas many early-prenatal abortions involve the expulsion of the embryo. In some countries, and for a while in America, partial-birth abortions meant that the baby was breached halfway through the womb, and then its neck was broken, which killed the baby instantly. Since then, the United States has banned it as a result of the many infuriated pro-life and even some pro-choice members who found it to be extremely inhumane. The RU-486 pill sends messages telling the brain that the woman that was inseminated, was already pregnant, and that the ovum that had been created, is removed because the body believes it is already impregnated. These operations raise many of the same problems as abortion itself.

Abortion is a highly-debated topic of whether it is ethical for a woman to decide to have one. Abortion is any of various surgical methods for deliberately terminating a pregnancy. When we speak of abortion today, we mean induced abortion performed by trained doctors, not including miscarriage (MacKinnon & Fiala, 2015). Some current methods of abortion are morning-after pill, mifepristone, uterine or vacuum aspiration, dilation and curettage, saline solution, prostaglandin drugs, hysterotomy, and partial birth abortion. Abortion involves questions about rights, happiness, and well-being, as well as the status and value of human life. The people who think it is ethical to have an abortion stand on the Pro-choice side and the people who think it is unethical stand on the Pro-life side. The liberal view of abortion supports abortions and the conservative view opposes abortion. There are many legal, religious, and medical conflicts that are included in the debate over abortion. The arguments made from both sides help us better understand whether a woman should have an abortion.