A recent article in the National Post presents the regulations around the pill, and the response. Pro-abortion groups are angry that this medication can be prescribed only by a physician, and further incensed that those doctors may choose to have the patient ingest the first dose in their office. In apparent evidence of their desire to make this a game-changer for easing access to abortion in Canada, they want to ignore the warnings of potential harm with which these drugs come. Blood infections, hemorrhages, one (non-fatal) heart attack – it is no wonder this drug took 4 years to be approved, “due to insufficient or missing safety data”.
You would think a group that claims to be focused on women’s health would be a little concerned with safety data. And if we’re concerned about women, we should insist she see an actual doctor, shouldn’t we? If the pregnancy is farther along than she claims, complications also increase. Secretly taking drugs designed to make you bleed quickly, painfully and heavily is not recommended for just anyone.
Let us also consider more closely the point of contention that the doctor has the option to insist that the first dose administered in the office. Abortion advocates argue that the purpose of these drugs should be to revolutionize abortion access in Canada. This “revolution” would allow anyone, anywhere, to get these drugs quickly and quietly in the mail, and deal with the aftermath in the privacy of her own home, where she can pass it off as a natural miscarriage or never tell anyone at all.
This free-for-all undermines actual care for women. To suggest it is unreasonable for a doctor to see the patient take the medication says they are willing to open up vulnerable women to likely abuses of such a drug. This is not just prescribing a medication someone’s teenager may sneak to get high, this is choosing to end a developing life. It seems fairly important that the woman asking for the drug is, in fact, the woman using the drug. Otherwise, if you have a girlfriend, daughter, or student you accidentally impregnated you could find a way to get these drugs and then slip a few pills into their smoothie or pass them the “antibiotic” their doctor prescribed. So much for “choice.”
The abortion pill is already a travesty in Canada. In the womb, the place that should be the safest for a pre-born child, she is deliberately targeted by a medication that thins the uterine lining on which she depends and then, while she’s barely hanging on, follows up with strong contractions to force her out of her haven into arms waiting with a hand on the toilet paper roll and an elbow on the flush handle.
To suggest that we still aren’t making it convenient enough for a woman to kill her baby goes beyond all comprehensible moral standards. If other contract killers had half these conveniences, you can bet the mob would have taken over the world.
Thank you to LifeNews for also publishing this article.
]]>Here is a quote from Renate Klein’s book found in this post from Ms. Maloney. It sheds light on the question as to why RU-486 is so blindly promoted by abortion advocates.
Another myth is that RU-486 will make it easier for women to end their pregnancies in remote areas where access to a hospital is scarce. But, as Ms. Maloney explains here the side effects can be so severe that an emergency room is mandatory.
Confused? So are many Canadians. That is why we encourage you to check out Ms. Maloney’s blog. Starting here.
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Mifepristone, otherwise known as RU-486, is a drug that interferes with the hormones necessary to sustain pregnancy. When taken by a pregnant woman in the first trimester of pregnancy, it will cause her to miscarry.
Abortion advocates are hoping the abortion drug will be made available very soon. On the other hand, Canada’s anti-abortion activists are urging Health Canada to consider the detrimental effects RU-486 has had on women’s health in countries where it is already in use. According to Johanne Brownrigg of Campaign Life Coalition, “In 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported 2200 adverse effects, including 14 US deaths, 58 ectopic pregnancies, 256 infections, and 339 incidents requiring transfusions.”
Should anti-abortion groups even be concerned? Does it really matter how abortions are performed when they are legal for any reason throughout an entire pregnancy anyway? Because RU-486 is only used early in the first trimester and we are so far away from regulating those abortions anyway, is it prudent to invest time and energy into trying to prevent its use in Canada?
In short, yes, we absolutely need to be concerned. In addition to RU-486 posing a serious threat to the health of mothers – and of course their pre-born child – it is clearly an expansion of access to abortion. And it seems to be happening without any public debate.
Health Canada will not allow input from the Canadian public when such an application is made. A spokesperson from Health Canada is quoted as saying, “Health Canada is bound by laws preventing disclosure of confidential information that is proprietary to the respective manufacturer. Once a submission is received, its existence or non-existence within the department remains confidential, proprietary information until it is approved.”
The Conservative government along with all the political parties in Ottawa have denounced any attempts at debating abortion in the House of Commons. This was most recently manifested by the harsh opposition to even discussing something as benign as Motion 408 which merely sought to condemn gender selective abortions. The news that the approval of RU-486 is imminent, with no debate, smacks of hypocrisy.
This expansion of access to abortion through the back door flies in the face of transparency and is not in line with proper democratic processes. Rather than legalizing a whole new form of abortion, Canada needs our elected lawmakers to ensure we have a full abortion debate in Parliament about not only this drug, but everything else related to abortion as well.
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The remedy for choice
these days,
is in a little pill.
Just pop one if you’re
pregnant,
and the life within
-will end,
-be still.
Such is the crazy world
we’re in,
a drug for when you’re in
a fix!
A death producing-life defying
RU Four-Eighty-Six.
RU for real?
Can this be true?
a child’s mother pops a pill??
How can these little ones
have voice?
Stand now!
Stand for the Weak!
RU 4 Death?? RU 4 Life??
Stand now! Stand!
Say your piece!
That babies may say
“I was born!”,
and this drug
go the way
of “cease”!
Life is a GIFT!
And a precious one!
A pill should not take that away!
Instead, let’s all live,
and let live to
all those,
who’ve begun
in their own
special way!!
Lori Verhelst, 2014 (in anticipation for March For Life 2014, which the theme is…RU4LIFE!)
]]>For those not aware, mifepristone, otherwise known as RU-486 is a drug that interferes with the hormones necessary to sustain pregnancy. When taken by a pregnant woman in the first trimester of pregnancy is will force her to miscarry her child.
This is clearly an expansion of access to abortion, and it seems to be happening without any public debate.
The Conservative government along with all the political parties in Ottawa have denounced any attempts at debating abortion in the House of Commons. That Health Canada could approve RU-486 through the proverbial backdoor is contrary to democratic principles that should allow for an abortion discussion.
RU-486 matters. You are encouraged to write your MP as well as Health Minister Rona Ambrose to express your opposition to this expansion of access to abortion in Canada.
Click here to find your MP | Minister Ambrose can be reached at rona.ambrose@parl.gc.ca
**Want to know what pro-abortion feminist researchers think about RU-486? See this article to find out.
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