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Colorado Medical Board finds that so-called abortion reversal is outside “generally accepted standard of practice” (coloradosun.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Patients first take a pill called mifepristone, which blocks the body’s progesterone, a hormone needed for pregnancy. Within the next 48 hours, patients take a second medication, called misoprostol. The abortion “reversal” pill is taken after women have taken the drug mifepristone but before they have taken misoprostol. The reversal is a high dose of the hormone progesterone in an attempt to counteract the effects of the mifepristone and preserve the pregnancy.

So they would directly go against the patient's wishes? Of course that's unethical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Where does it say the abortion reversal is against the patient's wishes?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

This mention was found in the article: "The intent of this bill was to stop this predatory bait-and-switch, deceiving women and especially at-risk women"

The article, sadly, didn't go into much more detail regarding such incidents.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

after you take the mifepristone the embryo is no longer alive. you start your period maybe a couple hours after taking the pill. all the second bottle does is force it out. i would be weary of a drug that says it can reverse any kind of affect that the mifepristone had on the embryo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Suffering and cruelty really is the point isn't it?