Medical And Legal Information About Abortion Pills

By Alan Bradd


Even though Mifepristone or being precise the abortion pills are now considered as the safest way of getting rid of pregnancy. There are still a lot of women that you may find consuming mifepristone and misoprostol that are found to undergo several adverse reactions too. These reactions might include cramps or abdominal pain, vomiting, headache, diarrhoea, nausea and so on.

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.

RU-486 is a drug that was developed in France, which is otherwise known as Mifepristone. The purpose of this drug is to keep a check on the progesterone, which is a hormone that helps in maintaining the pregnancy. Once the abortion pills are consumed, it reduces the production of progesterone and it sheds the uterus lining. It is often found in certain women, this process also leads to some bleeding too.

You will need to visit the abortion clinic to get the oral abortion pills, Mifepristone. Once you have consumed the first pill, you need to consume a subsequent drug, a second medicine which is known as Misoprostol, it shall be given by the clinic. You also need to remember that it becomes very important to consume the Misoprostol drug within 24 to 72 hours of consuming the mifepristone drug. The misoprostol drug induces contraction in the uterus, which results in miscarriage.

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.

Once you have all the essential information about the abortion pills, it shall become a lot easier for you to learn and understand the right way of consuming this drug and it also becomes easier for the physicians to explain important things for the abortion pills.

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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