This pilot study done in London found that chemical abortions are safe to do at home in the first 9 weeks of pregnancy.
None of the 172 women, who took tablets supervised by a nurse in a health centre, suffered serious complications, Nursing Standard reported.The pilot could pave the way for women to have abortions at home, in GP surgeries and in family planning clinics.
In a medical abortion, a woman takes a tablet of the drug mifepristone under supervision before returning two days later to take four pills of misoprostol which leads to a termination within a few hours.
The pilot project in southern England represents the first time staff have offered the service outside a hospital setting.
The pro-life alliance is claiming that this is too traumatic to be done at home. I think there is no way of saying how different women will react to this particular method, but I find a hospital much more invasive than my own living room, where I can choose who I surround myself with.
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I live in London and had the abortion pill five years ago at the age of 26. It was a nightmare! I decided to have the abortion pill as I thought it would be less invasive and risky than a surgical abortion. After taking the first set of pills I spent two days bleeding terribly, feeling week and suffering from major cramps. I then had to go into hospital to take the second dose of pills and spent six hours waiting there to miscarry into a plastic bucket. When this didn't happen I was sent home and told I had to come back for an ultrasound to make sure I wasn't having an ectopic pregnancy. After a long painful night in a cold sweat I then miscarried in the bath the following morning. But I still had to go back to hospital, to the maternity ward, to have the ultrasound to check I wasn't pregnant. And to make matters worse, the massive dose of hormones messed up the hormonal balance of my body and I started to get terrible spots, something which I had never suffered from before. Even now, all these years later, I still get bad outbreaks every once in a while and have to go on the pill to calm things down.
I was not warned of any of the risks and given no aftercare advice. I have not been pregnant since, and although I have not yet tried for a baby I am worried that the massive dose of hormones may have had a long term negative effect on my fertility. I’m sure other people may have had better experiences than me but I feel it is important to let people know that simply taking a pill and miscarrying at home isn’t a straightforward as it may at first sound.
Why is conservative a bad word to the world?
Something has been bothering me for awhile now. The media with all of its liberal ways and supporters has negatively added connotations to the desire for a person to live a conservative life. My question to those who would label conservatives as "far right", "extremists", "fundamentalists" (as if that is suppose to be a dirty word), "fanatics", you get the picture, anyway, how do Christian people think that they can live any other way but conservative? In Matthew 7:14, the Bible tells us: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. The preceding verse tells where liberality leads. So how can a Christian look at life and say, I am not going to take that path, it's too narrow? I will follow the broad (liberal) path. The Bible tells us that path leadeth to destruction.
While I was thinking on this subject, I was thinking about political hot topics, that we are being fed propaganda on everyday. Homosexuality, abortion, individuality, absence of God in everything, and other liberal topics come to mind. Well, I got to thinking about abortion, looking down through this strait gate. And I ask myself, What would Jesus say to a woman, who would come to him seeking an abortion? Now I would never attempt to speak for Jesus, or pretend that I am smart enough to know what he would say. But while I was thinking on this very subject, a verse which was spoken by Jesus came to mind. Matthew 19:6 says: Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let no man put asunder. Now, I know what your going to say; that has nothing to do with abortion that is about marriage. Well, when it came to my mind, I wasn’t thinking about divorce or adultery, I was thinking about how a Christian could justify killing an unborn child. And if you think about the verse, yes it is talking about marriage, but it doesn’t say, A man and a woman that God hath joined together. It says what therefore God has joined together. To me that is saying that anything God joins together, man is not suppose to mess with. He made man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into him the breathe of life, and then told man "Thou shalt not kill". Whatever he creates, he doesn’t want man to destroy.
If you still want to argue that the verse just pertains to marriage, lets look at marriage. In what way is a marriage consummated? And what is the process that leads to conception? There is a part of a man that joins with a part of woman to create a new life. Who is in control of those two parts that are joined together? If you say man, woman, or doctor, there will be a lot on infertile couples who will take exception to your response. Only God can join the two together to make a life. And no man whether he be the President, a Supreme Court Justice, a doctor, or some liberal editorialist can spin that around to say that abortion is a woman’s right to put asunder what God has joined together.
Yes, yes. Let us look at everything that god has created that man should not mess with. Let us look at all the animals that have become extinct because men have killed them off. Sure, you could argue that man is dominate over animals blah, blah, blah... but did god not creat these animals? Did god not intend for these animals to continue living? And then here comes man, just exterminating what god created. Way to go man. Why would god create something that was intended to become extinct? The same reason god created an embryo/fetus that was not meant to come to full term. That is god's will also. God is supposed to choose the path for each thing on this planet right? Well, then maybe he chose to have this particular embryo/fetus aborted and not another. Now, you may also argue that man is causing the abortion, that this is not a natural selection (i.e. miscarriage, stillborn, etc...) but did god not give man the tools he needed to develop technology, create medical advances and a greater understanding of science? In essence, god has provided us everything that we have now. All the sciences, all the technologies, all the advancements. So, god has actually given the knowledge to man as to how to do abortions safely and securely. I would think that maybe you should question god about whether or not god is wrong in giving man these options. Of course that could fall under free will, which then again, you have god to thank for that too.
But, then again, one shouldn't mess with god's plans and his creations, right?