As far as Abortion pills are considered, it is a medicine or a drug that has to be taken orally by the women during the early stages of pregnancy. Mifeprex is the drug that one refers to when the consumption of abortion pills are concerned. It is a combination of two abortion compounds that includes misoprostol and mifepristone.
This is a very commonly used alternative to surgical method of abortion and is considered as non-surgical abortion. However, irrespective of the benefits, there are a lot of thing that you need to know about it before you plan to go through the abortion process using the drugs.
However, even after the approval of the medicinal drug, till 2013 it was found that around 14 women had died due to the consumption of the mifepristone. These deaths included, two women dying because of ruptured ectopic pregnancies, 7-8 died out of bacterial infection and remaining of which suffered due to drug overdose and toxic shock. There were even other clinical tests performed that survived but had to go through severe complications such as heart attack.
After the incidents Food and Drug Administration department U.S has made an effort to provide special rules and regulations for the distribution of RU-486. They make sure to consider the manufacturer's information and a warning for the physicians that inform that only a licensed physician can supply the drug and it is important for them to sign the prescriber's agreement.
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.
Some women do see slight bleeding after the consumption of the first drug i.e. Mifepristone. However, you need to be assured that the amount of bleeding that occurs in women shall differ from one woman to another. Moreover, it is also found that some women do not see any bleeding after the consumption of the first drug, whereas others might undergo heavy bleeding, similar to what they have during periods.
Moreover, you also need to understand that there are certain conditions under women cannot go under medical abortion. If a woman has had an ectopic pregnancy or has gone through pregnancy outside uterus, it makes them ineligible for an abortion using the abortion pills. Moreover, women that have allergies to certain drugs, asthma, cardiovascular problems or blood pressure problems, too are not preferred for medical abortion.
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.
This is a very commonly used alternative to surgical method of abortion and is considered as non-surgical abortion. However, irrespective of the benefits, there are a lot of thing that you need to know about it before you plan to go through the abortion process using the drugs.
However, even after the approval of the medicinal drug, till 2013 it was found that around 14 women had died due to the consumption of the mifepristone. These deaths included, two women dying because of ruptured ectopic pregnancies, 7-8 died out of bacterial infection and remaining of which suffered due to drug overdose and toxic shock. There were even other clinical tests performed that survived but had to go through severe complications such as heart attack.
After the incidents Food and Drug Administration department U.S has made an effort to provide special rules and regulations for the distribution of RU-486. They make sure to consider the manufacturer's information and a warning for the physicians that inform that only a licensed physician can supply the drug and it is important for them to sign the prescriber's agreement.
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.
Some women do see slight bleeding after the consumption of the first drug i.e. Mifepristone. However, you need to be assured that the amount of bleeding that occurs in women shall differ from one woman to another. Moreover, it is also found that some women do not see any bleeding after the consumption of the first drug, whereas others might undergo heavy bleeding, similar to what they have during periods.
Moreover, you also need to understand that there are certain conditions under women cannot go under medical abortion. If a woman has had an ectopic pregnancy or has gone through pregnancy outside uterus, it makes them ineligible for an abortion using the abortion pills. Moreover, women that have allergies to certain drugs, asthma, cardiovascular problems or blood pressure problems, too are not preferred for medical abortion.
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.
