Self-induce an illegal abortion in Mexico? There’s an app for that
¿No Te Baja? which translates as Missed Your Period? makes use of bright colors, engaging cartoon characters and relatable, non-technical, language to inform and guide users through the steps they can take to terminate a pregnancy using Misoprostol….
Misoprostol, a drug used to treat ulcers, is easily available for purchase throughout Mexico, and, unlike in the United States, does not require a prescription. Use of Misoprostol to terminate pregnancy is widespread in parts of Mexico where abortion is illegal, but pharmacy workers often lack the knowledge of how the drug should correctly be administered – and criminalization means that helpful information is scarce.
~ Karin Gardiner describing an app in Spanish designed to assist a person seeking an abortion with the use of the abortion-inducing drug Misoprostol, RH Reality Check, December 3
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Does the app tell the woman what do to if she starts bleeding uncontrollably or has other problems?
Soooooo poor women without access to decent medical facilities need only boot up their PC, connect to the Internet, and download this app. Is that about it? Reminds me of Marie Antoinette. Can you say “out of touch”?
And if you have an ectopic pregnancy, this is really going to help, huh?
How about an app to instruct the user on removing one’s own appendix at home? We can do without health care altogether then, right?
I think we can use Tom Hank’s movie scene where he extracts a tooth with an ice skate blade to help people without access to dentists learn how to complete their own dental care, outdoors, around a campfire! Woo hoo!
The great thing about this is, when one of the girls/women they’ve bamboozled into thinking killing her child in utero and making her uterus spasm so hard it nearly tears itself to bits is safe dies of blood loss, they can parade her corpse about chanting “Pro-Choice is Pro-Life!” and “Pro-Life, that’s a lie, you don’t care if women die!” like it’s OUR FAULT THAT IT HAPPENED, when we’re just as opposed to this kinda crap, and definitely don’t actively facilitate such a potentially-lethal mess, like they do.
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Does the app tell the woman what do to if she starts bleeding uncontrollably or has other problems?
Why worry about that when their goal is to help eradicate those people anyway? I mean, if the mother kills herself as well that is like a two fer in their accounting.
The big problem (besides ethics) with use of misoprostil is that the “proper” dose changes based upon the gestation time. The uterus late in gestation is a lot more sensitive to the drug. Late in gestation, 25 or 50 microgram doses might do what 400 or 800 micrograms would do early in gestation.
The original manufacturer of the drug did not ever seek approval for labor induction, because of the risk of uterine rupture. If a woman takes the dose recommended for early gestation later on.. she is in severe danger of ruptured uterus and ‘death syndrome’.
The abortion supporters have no problem with placing such a drug over the counter, because the health of women is not their priority.
Desperate people will do desperate things. They think keeping abortion legal somehow keeps women from doing desperate things…but in my book abortion is a permenant solution to a temporary situation, which looks desperate enough (don’t want to be pregnant or have children so bad that you kill them in-uteral. I understand fear, but that doesn’t teach you how to face and deal with fear…it teaches you how to RUN from what you fear rather than learn how to be courageous and for those who are religious, trust in the power of prayer and God).
pharmer says: The abortion supporters have no problem with placing such a drug over the counter, because the health of women is not their priority.
So, so true. And so sad as well.
But like, I thought women’s health was all they cared about and stuff. Was I lied to?