Month: September 2012

Unfortunately, abortion right’s groups have opposed guidelines that would increase the safety of RU-486 abortions. For example, an article from Newswire covered the National Abortion Federation’s press conference on the new abortion method.

Executive director of NAF Vicki Saporta says that doctors should receive training before providing RU-486 abortions but goes on to say plainly:

“While training is important, a third party certification of such training should not be an FDA requirement.”

So therefore, although training should be done, there should be no legal way to restrict untrained doctors from providing these abortions.

“National Abortion Federation Responds to FDA Restrictions Regarding Approval of RU-486 for Early Abortion” June 8, 2000 U.S. Newswire

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Warren Hern, abortionist, on the abortion pill:

According to the New York Times, Dr. Warren Hern, a provider in Denver, said the latest reports on RU-486 demonstrated that abortions by RU-486, or Mifeprex, were far riskier than surgical ones. “I think surgery should be the procedure of choice,” Dr. Hern said. Pills, he said, “are a lousy way to perform an abortion.”

GARDINER HARRIS “Some Doctors Voice Worry Over Abortion Pills’ Safety” New York Tiimes April 1, 2006

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Tom Tvedten
abortionist
NY Times, Under Din of Abortion Debate, An Experience Shared Quietly: 9-18-2005

At the Little Rock Family Planning abortion clinic,the NY Times reported that few patients chose the pills over surgery. ”With medical termination, the discomfort is significant because they have to go through mini-labor,”

Dr. Tvedten said. ”There’s a lot of hard cramps and usually significant bleeding. It’s cheaper, safer and less painful to have a surgical termination.”

Quoted by Life Dynamics

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Peter Bours, abortionist, on deaths from the abortion pill:

“None of these women should be dying; it’s shocking,” said Dr. Peter Bours, an abortion provider in Portland, Ore., who is the New York Times said rethinking whether to offer pill-based, or medical, abortions

Gardiner Harris “Some doctors voice worry over abortion pills’ safety”. New York Times April 1, 2006

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Patricia Baird-Windle
abortion clinic owner
Florida Today Abortion provider Patricia Baird-Windle reflects on her career, her choices, Interview by Pam Platt, 8-29-1999

“RU-486 is painful. Women have a great deal of pain and nausea and many visits to the clinic.”

From Life Dynamics

 

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Nurse
A Tough Choice To Swallow : Part two: 6-8-2006

“There is a skeptical part of me that thinks that the early medical abortion (EMA) is just a way for the NHS to save money.”

Quoted by Life Dynamics. The “early medical abortion” that this nurse is referring to is RU-486

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Nurse
A Tough Choice To Swallow : Part two: 6-8-2006

“The main problem with doing it at home is that the patient has to see the product which is passed. This is obviously pretty nasty if you have to do it yourself.”

Quoted by Life Dynamics

for more information on RU-486, go here

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Nurse
A Tough Choice To Swallow : Part two: 6-8-2006

“If a patient is sent out the door with their pills, then there might not be any follow-up. It has been known for patients to go back and have to ask for counseling afterwards. And of course it will not occur to some people to do that, and it can be very damaging psychologically. It’s a horrible thing to go through.”

Quoted by Life Dynamics

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Nurse
A Tough Choice To Swallow : Part two: 6-8-2006

“So the early medical abortion (EMA) procedure affords better confidentiality in one sense. My concern is that, in the medical sense, a patient at home might not know what to do if anything went wrong.”

From Life Dynamics

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Phillip G. Stubblefield professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Boston University.

“One needs to tell patients that the medical procedure, even though it seems more natural, may be more likely to result in death.”

GARDINER HARRIS “Some Doctors Voice Worry Over Abortion Pills’ Safety” New York Tiimes April 1, 2006

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