Comments on: Dangerous home abortions

By: Alisa Harris

Alisa Harris — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:14:17 +0000

It briefly says in the article that they get it from pharmacies willing to bend the rules or, as Adios mentions, internationally.

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By: adios

adios — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:04:26 +0000

This is just a wild guess, but I would guess these perscription drugs are sold on the black market not prescribed by a doctor.

And if they live anywhere near the border it can be fairly easy to get. I called the doctor’s office once because one of my kids had pink eye. They could not prescribe anything over the phone because the child must be seen! (With all my kids I was pretty good at diagnosing pink eye). But I was told to expect a wait because the flu going around had the office crammed full. So I could go wait two hours and get the prescription and the flu or I could hop in the car, drive to Mexico, get the prescription and still be home in two hours. Very tempting . . . I ran that by a friend who had leftover drops. That exchange took only a half hour. When I told our pediatrician about it she rolled her eyes and made a note at the top of our charts that phone in prescriptions were fine for a whole list of things.

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By: adios

adios — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:52:44 +0000

Why would one poison carry any less of a stigma than another?

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By: matt8152

matt8152 — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:48:25 +0000

I agree with Sawgunner. Misoprostol is a prescription only medicine approved to treat certain types of ulcers. I have a hard time believing these women are receiving it from a physician or nurse practitioner who does not know how it will be used.

Besides, women all over the country are now inducing abortion at home with the availability of RU486. But RU486 has a stigma attached to it. It is the “abortion drug”.

I have read in my journals that doctors are using misoprostol, which is an abortifacient causing severe uterine contraction but which has been approved to treat ulcers, with methotrexate, a chemotherapy which kills the pregnancy and is now used to treat uncomplicated tubal pregnancies. It’s an already available, cheap cocktail that removes the stigma of prescribing RU486. It would be easy for a physician to lie about the pregnancy diagnosis and say the patient had a tubal pregnancy, then prescribe the methotrexate for the “tubal pregnancy” and the misoprostol for an “ulcer” while giving the patient a wink, wink, nod, nod and verbal instructions on how to complete the abortion at home. Should this cocktail just cause bleeding and be unsuccessful at completing the abortion, as about 20% are, the patient could then go to any ER and look just like a garden-variety miscarriage.

This sounds to me like a liberal hit piece ginning up sympathy for cheaper, more readily available abortion while providing cover for the practitioners who are giving these women the means for home abortion.

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By: Sawgunner

Sawgunner — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:53:48 +0000

Misoprostol is by prescription only. Who is prescribing it to chicas embarassadas? It should be as hard to buy this med as it is to by aerosol spray paint.

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By: Sawgunner

Sawgunner — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:52:10 +0000

As a compassionate conservative I think its our duty to tell them to go ahead and have the baby. The newborn will be an American citizen; mom will be undeportable. And mom will probably clean your house quite cheaply too!

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