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...will not be available from pharmacies and all women who choose to take Mifepristone must consent to a surgical abortion if the drug fails because it can cause birth defects to the fetus. With such safety guards in place, UHS should feel confident and be willing to make the drug available to Harvard students...
...doctor over two weeks, and the drug can only be dispensed by a doctor or a supervised health care practitioner. It will not be available from pharmacies, and women must agree to a surgical abortion if the drug fails, since it can cause birth defects in the fetus...
...fragile lungs, but Corneau belongs to a religious sect that rejects modern medicine. She also rejects the authority of the government, and so has declined to hire a lawyer. The A.C.L.U. has asked the state's high court to step in anyway, since there's no evidence that this fetus is in imminent danger. The court has declined...
...after pill, which doctors believe prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall, mifepristone causes miscarriage by blocking the hormone progesterone, which is needed to maintain a pregnancy. Mifepristone is followed 48 hours later by a second drug, called misoprostol, which forces the uterus to contract; the fetus is expelled several hours later. When taken within 49 days of the last period, the two-drug combination is 95% effective...
...menstrual cycle begins, they actually have 35 days from the time they miss their period to suspect they are pregnant, decide to abort and set up the appointments. (Home-pregnancy tests will help.) But once they do, many women find the process oddly comforting. Although they expel the fetus, all they see is a bloody mass that's unrecognizable. The nausea passes soon after the expulsion is over, and they can go on with their lives...