Saturday, 30 June 2018

Medical And Legal Information About Abortion Pills

By Alan Bradd


As far as Abortion pills are considered, it is a medicine or a drug that has to be taken orally by the women during the early stages of pregnancy. Mifeprex is the drug that one refers to when the consumption of abortion pills are concerned. It is a combination of two abortion compounds that includes misoprostol and mifepristone.

These are the drugs that are approved by FDA to get rid of Abortion. Consuming this drug or abortion pills is advised during the first eight weeks of pregnancy and it helps to bring out a chemical abortion or miscarriage.

It becomes very important to understand that there is no guarantee provided that you shall get successful results with the abortion pills. So, it becomes essential for the woman that is willing to take the medical abortion to be prepared for surgical abortion, in case the pills do not work and fail to give the results. In the medical abortion technique, there are two drugs given to the patient.

The Mifepristone is the first drug that weakens the foetus attached to the womb, by separating the lining of the embryo and the second drug, misoprostol is taken to cause contractions or cramps, that leads to bleeding, which expels the unborn foetus out of the body. There is a time schedule followed in between the consumption of these two drugs, one should take the second drug within 24-72 hours of consuming the first one. Remember in case it doesn't lead to abortion it can cause birth defects thus, it is advised to take surgical abortion in you find no results. It is also advised to women to have a follow up visit to check if the abortion has occurred or not within 2 weeks of taking the pills.

One thing you must know is that medical abortion doesn't give the same results for every individual. In a majority of the cases, women that want to get rid of pregnancy with abortion drugs are only successful when they take the pills as soon as they get aware of the pregnancy and it has not been more than 8 weeks.

Now, as there are a lot of things to consider including medical concerns, it is found that most clinics have made it viable that every individual under the drug shall be under observation of their medical staff. Moreover, according to studies, it is also found that 95% of the women that consume the abortion drugs have got successful results without severe complications, but ensuring that they have taken these pills within 9 weeks of gestations. Moreover, there are treatments and solution given for even the slight complications that occur after the consumption of RU-486. As this is possible it likely becomes more secured for the woman to consume these drugs and get good results.

The subsequent abortion drug misoprostol is known to give rise to cramps and it might also lead to bleeding too. It is often found that a woman might start bleeding within twenty minutes of consuming this pill. Within six to eight hours of taking misoprostol, a woman might experience lot of extreme cramping too. There are a lot of often that are found to go through nausea and vomiting too as side effects of consuming the drug.

For an individual that consumes the abortion drug, it becomes very important to have a follow up visit to the clinic after two weeks of taking the drug. It is important to get the check up call to ensure that the abortion has taken place. You also need to know that abortion pills only have a 95% success rate and thus there are a slight percentage of women that might further need to go through the surgical process of abortion.




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