The debate over the abortion pill or RU-486 is a heated one. It has many people in an uproar. With its recent FDA approval many people are worried that this decision although in most cases medically safe is morally incorrect and should be remedied as soon as possible.
RU 486 is a chemical compound that, taken in pill form, can induce abortion in women up to nine weeks pregnant. This compound gets the first part of its name from the French company, Roussel Uclaf , which first developed the abortion pill back in 1980. The “486” designation is the shortened version of the original “38486” compound number the pill was first assigned in the Roussel Uclaf laboratory. (1) RU486 is also known by its generic name, mifepristone, and by Mifegyne, the name under which RU486 is marketed in Europe.(2) “Early Option” is the name under which it is to be sold in the United States.(3)
RU486 is an artificial steroid that interferes with the action of progesterone, a hormone crucial to the early progress of pregnancy. (4) Progesterone stimulates the proliferation of the uterine lining which nourishes the developing child. It also suppresses normal uterine contractions which could dislodge the child implanted and growing on the wall of the mother’s womb.(5) RU486 fills the chemical receptor sites normally reserved for progesterone, but does not transmit the progesterone signal. Sensing what appears to be a drop in progesterone, usually a sign that pregnancy has not occurred, a woman’s body shuts down the preparation of the uterus and initiates the normal menstrual process. The child, deprived of necessary nutrients, starves to death. The baby detaches and is swept out of the body along with the decayed uterine lining. (6)
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The most important issue in balancing individual human rights with social responsibility in my point of view is abortion. The law that was passed so that abortions would be legal was a good decision. The anti-abortions have very sound points, but it should be up to the women to make her choice. Abortion has been debated for decades and always will be. Ever since Roe vs. Wade, abortion has been a ...
RU486 is not the morning after pill . They both work in very different ways. The morning after pill is birth control taken in a very high dosage within 72 hours of unprotected sex. There have been trials using RU486 as a morning after pill but the drug is going to be marketed as a confirmed birth abortion pill. (7), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12)
During the time frame that RU486 is able to be used, the baby is undergoing a rapid period of development. At this point, the child is about three weeks old (13) and approximately 2mm long (about 1/10 of an inch) (14) . Even by this time, however, the baby’s nervous system has begun to form and his or her heart is likely to have already begun its first beats. (15) (16) The child’s heart will be beating strongly and steadily by the time he or she is just three and a half weeks old.(17)
The effectiveness of the RU486, method begins to decline after 49 days, or 7 weeks of pregnancy. (18) By that time, the baby will be five weeks old and will have increased in size to 8mm, and his or her face, arms, and legs will be distinguishable.(19)
Before the end of the 9th week of pregnancy the outer extreme of RU486 s effectiveness, (20) the child’s ears, fingers and toes will have formed and he or she will be 18mm, or nearly an inch tall, from head to toe. (21)
RU486 is going to be approved only for abortion purposes, although some people think it might be able to show effectiveness in other medical problems such as breast cancer, and fibrosis.
An RU486 induced abortion can take days, weeks, or never happen at all. It typically involves 3 visits to the doctor’s office over a two week period.
In her first visit, a woman is “counseled,” given a physical examination, perhaps an ultrasound, and if there are no obvious symptoms such as high blood pressure, diabetes, heavy smoking, allergies, etc. that could make taking the drug deadly or dangerous for her (22) she is given the RU486 pills, which she takes in the presence of the abortionist.
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termination Abortion Abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, known as? murdering? of the foetus. There are many theories of the foetus being starved of oxygen, or the womb being filled with a toxic gas, crushed up, and extracted from the womb. This is all very well, but remember, this foetus will be less than twenty-four weeks old and is not able to feel pain anyway. If the foetus was brought ...
Two days later, during a second visit to the doctor’s office, she is given the prostaglandin, which she takes orally or has inserted vaginally. Gradually, as the drug begins to take effect, she experiences powerful, painful uterine contractions which begin to work to expel the baby.
In U.S. trials, about half aborted during the four hours they spent waiting in the doctor’s office following the administration of the prostaglandin. An additional 26 % aborted sometime over the next 20 hours, on the bus ride home, at work, in the shower, etc. The rest who aborted did so at some point during the following two weeks. Between 8% and 23% (depending on how many weeks pregnant the mother was) never completely aborted or didn’t abort at all using the drugs.
A third visit some 14 days from the woman’s initial visit allows the doctor to confirm whether or not the abortion has been completed. If it hasn’t, the abortionist will encourage the woman to undergo a surgical abortion to guard against the possibility that she will give birth to a child who may have been injured by the drugs. (23)
The abortion pill (RU486) has been around since around 1980 but has not been released in the United States because of a patent dispute between Roussel Uclaf the original creator and United States patent offices.
I am against abortion. I don t think that the abortion pill makes the fact that you re taking a human life any better. I am a Christian and my faith dictates that abortion is wrong and unlike some of the teachings of the Bible this is one that is very easy for me to agree with. I do not think it is fair to abort life when we are given the unique opportunity to create it. It is not the child s fault that they are being conceived so how can we punish them by taking their life.
A child that you abort could grow up to be anything. You could be giving up on the next president or the person who will discover the vaccine for aids.
God has a plan for every child conceived as it says in Psalms 139:13,16, For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mothers womb , and When I was woven together in the depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed body. To kill such potential because of a mistake made by you or somebody else seems so unfair to me.
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I think that the abortion pill is going to make it harder for women to have an abortion because they have to do it themselves. Its one thing when a woman can go to a clinic and have a doctor do the deed for them but now they have to sit, in there own home, after seeing a doctor, and decide to kill there unborn child. This might make some women think twice about what they are doing. But it also might make people think that because no surgery involved that what they are doing is not the same, but I think it is very much the same and this way is even more of a process, and it gives you more of a chance to think about what you are doing.
So in conclusion in my opinion abortion is wrong but I don t think this pill is going to make it any less of a bad thing or any more of a righteous thing. People who choose to abort are not bad people or twisted in my opinion they are just confused.
