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Don't most women take that pill the day or week after they have been raped or had relations unprotected?>>

Yes, and that is how it kills babies. Most women, when raped, call the police and go to a hospital where DNA samples are taken, then a D & C is conducted. Oh, and it'
s not as easy as taking " a Pill" read the last few paragraphs.

What is it?

RU-486 (also known as mifepristone) is a chemical used to cause abortion. It was first developed in France in 1981, and has recently been brought to America. Although it is referred to as "the abortion pill," it is actually three pills taken at once.

RU-486 is a man-made steroid designed to work against a woman's normal, natural state during pregnancy. Sometimes it is called a "medical abortion" or "chemical abortion" because it does not involve surgery, unless the chemicals fail to kill the baby.

Abortion is an act of direct killing that takes the life of a tiny human being-a life that begins at fertilization.

How does it work?

During pregnancy, the preborn baby requires a chemical called progesterone. This chemical is produced naturally in the mother's body. It is so valuable to the baby's proper growth and development that some call it "nature's pregnancy hormone."

RU-486 works against this hormone. It breaks down and then destroys the surroundings the baby has established in his mother's womb, and eventually destroys the baby as well. The chemical cuts off nourishment to the preborn child, who starves to death inside his mother's womb.

But RU-486 does not work alone. A second chemical is also involved.

How does this second chemical work?

The second chemical (misoprostol), causes cramping and contractions. After RU-486 has killed the tiny boy or girl through starvation, this second chemical is designed to push the dead baby out of the mother's womb.

How is an RU-486 abortion done?

During her first visit to the doctor's office or clinic, the woman is given RU-486 pills. This will kill her baby in the womb.

During her second visit, the woman is given pills or suppositories containing the second chemical (misoprostol). This will cause cramping, and the woman will eventually expel the dead baby. This could happen at any time after this drug is taken.

During her final doctor's office or clinic visit, a doctor will examine the woman to see if her abortion is complete. If the RU-486 abortion has failed, the woman will then be scheduled for surgical abortion.

Is an RU-486 abortion safe?

No. Women have died because of RU-486 abortions. Here are some of the side effects:

nausea
abdominal pain
vomiting
heavy and extended bleeding
heart attack
hemorrhage
impaired future fertility
harmful to any future children
What should I do?

If you are pregnant, don't abort your baby. Don't be pressured into getting an abortion.

There are people willing to help you, listen to your concerns, arrange good prenatal care for you and be supportive as you decide what is best for you and your baby.

Be good to yourself-be good to your baby!

Sources:

"A Consumer's Guide to the Pill and Other Drugs," by pharmacist/researcher John Wilks.

"Infant Homicides Through Contraceptives," by pharmacist Bogomir Kuhar; 2nd edition 1995.

Medical consultant: Stephen Spaulding, M.D. Dr. Spaulding is a board-certified family practitioner whose writings have appeared in a variety of medical journals.

"The chemical that will kill millions more babies and maim untold thousands of women received approval from the abortion industry's number one ally: the Food and Drug Administration,". "Contrary to what presidential candidate Al Gore has claimed regarding the 'safety' of this chemical, the fact is, it will not be safe for one child. RU-486 kills innocent human persons. RU-486 is a chemical assault weapon aimed at the tiniest babies. RU-486 is an affront to the inalienable rights of the human child who is endowed with personhood at conception/fertilization.

"The US Congress must resolve to conduct oversight hearings at once so that the FDA is held accountable for this raw, inhumane decision that will destroy babies and maim women. We will not cease our efforts until personhood is restored to all Americans, and until women are protected from sadistic Big Abortion."
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So, now French women can use this pill privately to abort?

No! Following is the schedule that must be followed today in France if a woman wishes to abort using RU-486:

She must have a pregnancy test and have the preborn child dated.

She must undergo a pelvic exam, a blood test, and an ultrasound exam using an intravaginal probe.

After a one-week waiting period, she takes three RU-486 tablets registered under her name and leaves the clinic.

36 to 48 hours later she receives an injection of a synthetic prostaglandin and stays in the clinic for about four hours for monitoring.

She returns to the clinic seven days later to ensure that the abortion is complete and to have her bleeding monitored.

If the pill has failed, she must have a surgical abortion.[4]
According to some medical reports, the pill fails approximately five percent of the time.[5] Others put the failure rate at ten percent or more.[6]

Is RU-486 safe?

RU-486 has also been combined with other chemicals, like sulprostone, in order to make the death of the preborn child more certain. However, it has been reported that when sulprostone is used, the incidence of babies born with malformations (babies who survive the abortion attempt) and the incidence of women dying does increase.[7]

An account of an RU-486 abortion done on one American girl, 17 years of age, who traveled to England suggests that there are many "unpleasant side effects, including nausea, vomiting and diarrhea." The young woman, Aimee, told the reporter, "I felt like I was dying...it hurt so much. I had contractions coming so fast, and I was sick to my stomach and dry heaving. I couldn't stop trembling and I felt so hot."[8]

Bernard N. Nathanson, M.D., has commented, regarding the administration of RU-486 plus a prostaglandin backup: "These new drugs are a frightening throwback to barbarism and an ominous harbinger of the deterioration of the health of women and children worldwide. They represent perhaps the greatest threat yet to life, liberty and the family in this generation."[9]

In a letter dated April 12, 1990, a group of French health professionals warned of the hazards that RU-486, in combination with the use of other chemicals, posed to women who use it.

Dr. Raymond Godefroid, R.Ph., wrote, "Menstrual periods that last an average of 12 days, hemorrhage severe enough to require blood transfusion, and pain in 10% of the patients severe enough to require administration of parenteral narcotics should not be given the 'safe' label...The fact that premeditated pregnancy termination [abortion] is an unnatural and traumatic event, no matter what the modus operandi, makes this antiprogesterone steroid just another abortifacient..."[10]

Five cases of congenital malformation were reported in the December 21-28, 1991, edition of The Lancet, a British medical journal.

The April 30, 1991, Washington Post (p. 5) reported that the French government banned the use of RU-486 by smokers and women over the age of 35 due to serious complications and the death of one woman.

According to a letter by Karen Masulis, R.N., in the May 27, 1991, edition of Nurseweek, most women who use RU-486 "bleed heavily and continue to bleed heavily for 10 days"; "one in 1,000 women bleeds so heavily she requires a transfusion"; "nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea are common side effects" as well.[11]

In a June 19, 1991, letter, Dr. Carl Peck of the United States Department of Health and Human Services wrote: "[The] FDA continues to believe that the RU-486 regimen poses an unreasonable safety risk which makes it inappropriate for release under our personal importation policy."
Commenting on a French clinical study done on the "safety" of RU-486 that was reported in the March 8, 1990, New England Journal of Medicine, Herbert Ratner, M.D., stated:

"[The] six authors who conclude that RU-486 with prostaglandin is 'an effective and safe method for the early termination of pregnancy' are all employees of the company that will earn huge profits if RU-486 gets wide acceptance. Controlling bias favoring their company's product is nearly unsurmountable...

"The women were monitored as inpatients for 4 days and then left the center. However 'seventy-five women [out of 2115] did not return for follow-up after they had received prostaglandin analogues' and were dropped out of the study. There is no indication that an attempt was made to track down the delinquents. As epidemiologists know 'it is the patients who drop out of the trials who are much more important than the patients who stay in them.' One wonders, then, whether any had died, or whether some had ended up elsewhere with complications which require a general care facility."[12]

Most shocking is the fact that after only 17 months of animal research conducted in France, the testing of RU-486 was deemed sufficient for it to be tested on women, who became the human guinea pigs for further testing.[13]