jillstanek.com (Free subscription) | 03/09/2008
Kudos to Green , OH , pro-lifers for making life (pardon the pun) so unbearable for all associated with G&H Healthcare , a "nonsurgical abortion provider" according to Ohio.com , i.e., an RU-486 medical abortion mill, that it is leaving town. The trouble began earlier this summer when G&H made the mistake of setting up its chop shop in an abortion-unfriendly town. Pro-lifers immediately started picketing...
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 15/07/2008
Some women living in countries where abortion is restricted are using the Internet to purchase the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol to induce abortion, according to a review published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, BBC News reports (Dreaper, BBC News, 7/11). The drugs are available via the Web site, Women on Web.
The Blog That Ate Manhattan (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
In countries where abortion is illegal, a group called Women on Web is offering medical abortion over the Internet. (via National Women's Health Report ) Clients complete an online questionnaire and are then contacted by a doctor who prescribes the medications that are then taken at home to induce abortion. The group has published outcomes on 484 women from 33 different countries who received their...
RealChoice (Free subscription) | 14/06/2008
Oriane Shevin , age 34, died of infection following off-label use of RU-486 for a safe and abortion in California in 2005. Oriane got the drugs at the Eve Surgical Center in West Los Angeles. She took the mifeprestone on June 9 and vaginally inserted the misoprostol on June 10. The coroner's office was not able to deterime if a physician saw or examined her at the abortion facility. Both Christopher...
Boots and Sabers (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008
What a waste. The inquest heard that Miss Jones was a Christian and a keen member of the local church youth club who sang with her family at their chapel in north Wales. She met Naeem Muzaffar at City of Bristol College where she went to study for three A-levels, and became ‘besotted’ with him. Her mother said that her daughter opted for an abortion to avoid conflict with her Muslim boyfriend’s family....
Health - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Researchers at the University of Southampton said a trial run of the program at two facilities found that early medical abortion using pills rather......
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
In response to results of a pilot published by the Department of Health looking at how to improve access to early medical abortion Julie Bentley, Chief Executive, fpa said: "Early medical abortion is a very safe and effective method and we welcome the results of this pilot. It demonstrates that abortion services have the capacity to be far more responsive to the needs of women using them.
BIG BLUE WAVE (Free subscription) | 29/04/2008
The problem with feminist objections towards Bill C-484 is that they're not based on what the law actually says. For example, Birth Pangs says that if Bill C-484 passes, any attempt extra-medical abortion would become illegal. But that's not true. The law is plainly clear. If there is a termination of pregnancy, the bill does not apply. The Michigan law they cite is a bill that criminalizes any action...
Feministing (Free subscription) | 31/01/2008
I posted earlier this week about the pros and cons of medical abortion . And right on the heels of that discussion, the New York Times reports that Shanghai Hualian, the Chinese drug company that manufactures mifepristone pills (aka RU-486) used in the U.S., has been accused of producing tainted drugs . Now, to be clear, all tainted drugs have come from a different plant from the one where U.S.-bound...
Feministing (Free subscription) | 29/01/2008
Via Jill , I see an article -- and a post by Sara Robinson at the Group News Blog -- about how medical abortion (mifepristone, otherwise known as RU-486) is "shifting the front lines" of the abortion debate. I have to say I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. Yes, it gives women another abortion option. Yes, may be a reason for the slower rate at which we're losing abortion providers. That is...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 28/01/2008
Two decades after medical abortion became legal in Canada, abortion advocates and anti-abortion activists alike marked the anniversary of the Supreme Court ruling that allowed medical professionals to help women end their pregnancies.
