For twenty years plus, National Right to Life has warned that in their unceasing desire to expand the number of abortions, the Abortion Establishment was cutting more and more and more corners in promoting the use of “chemical abortions,” by which is ordinarily meant RU486. And those changes put mothers’ lives at increased risk.
“RU486” is not a single “abortion pill.” It is actually a two-drug technique in which mifepristone (trade name Mifeprex) kills the unborn child and the accompanying prostaglandin (misoprostol), which induces contractions to expel the corpse.
In countries where RU486 is not legal but misoprostol is legal for purposes other than abortion, women, at the encouragement of abortion activists, have tried using the misoprostol alone to induce their abortions. However it does not induce an abortion in a significant percentage of women and has been associated with a high number of developmental anomalies among those children who do survive, as we have reported numerous times.
This all came rushing back this morning with an article posted on the pro-abortion site rhrealitycheck.org headlined, “Missed Your Period? Don’t Want to be Pregnant? There is an App for That.”
Written by Karen Gardiner, the article is an attempt to put a very dangerous abortion technique in a lighthearted, almost comic light. Here is the opening:
“’To avoid judgement and fear, it is always useful step into the shoes of another person. I invite you into mine.’
“So begins the journey of a 19-year-old Mexican named Claudia, protagonist of an inventive computer game.
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