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Health/Medical Title: 'Reversible' abortions: how sound is the science? Arizona has passed a law that requires doctors who provide drug-based abortions to tell women that the process may be reversed after taking the first dose. Some claim that the science is flawed and it's just another way of putting pressure on women to change their mind about having an abortion. How can an abortion possibly be reversed? How does interrupting an abortion work? How effective is the abortion-interruption process? Could the baby be harmed by the first abortion drug? So what's the problem? Then why have some abortions apparently been successfully halted? Even with such multiple dosing, the pregnancy continued about 40 per cent of the time of the time, without the addition of progesterone. "There's no proof that progesterone works," says Lohr. "The only way to tell if it's effective is by doing a randomised trial." How often do women change their minds after the first dose? "If a doctor told me the abortion they were about to carry out was reversible I would feel as though they weren't listening when I said I was not prepared to continue the pregnancy," says Lohr. "It's corrosive to the doctor-patient relationship, which is built on trust and a belief that the doctor is always acting in the patient's best interests." How has the ruling been received? Some US states require women to see their embryo on an ultrasound scan before the abortion, even though before 12 weeks this may require the use of a vaginal ultrasound device. Others require doctors to tell women that the fetus can feel pain during the procedure, which is highly unlikely. Lohr says: "Whether this bill stays on the books in Arizona, I think it's likely that we will see it pop up somewhere else."
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#1. To: Willie Green (#0)
A better idea would be to put all the abortionists on trial for murder. Then seat a moral jury. Then start the executions. Yes I want abortionists to be killed by the state inhumanely.
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