Four “entities” are involved in an abortion, the woman, the doctor, the fetus and “the government” but one “entity”, the government has more control and more to say, -and what the government says controls the woman and the doctor. The fetus is the most changeable entity, going from a fertilized egg that “implants” or connects to the woman; to the blastoyst, the embryo and finally the fetus. Abortion pills can prevent and can interrupt the implantation. The law has a lot to say about the implantation and the interruption even though Roe v Wade seems to keep the law out of fertilization, implantation and interruption, things that happen inside a woman’s body, things that are beyond the reach and the control of government. The law looms over, under and around all of that. The question since time out of mind has been “Who Decides?”.
When RU-486 which has the chemical name mifepristone was invented or discovered years after Roe, the “entities” changed again. The woman and the doctor were not free to choose whether to prescribe or to take it. It was purposely stopped from being prescribed by lobbyists and the government for twelve years after 1988 when it was approved for use in France. Women in America were among the last to be able to use an oral contraceptive. RU-486 was discovered in 1980 and it took 20 years for RU-486 to be available in America. A later chemical pill called misoprostol, is a synthetic prostaglandin E1 analog. In 1986, misoprostol was approved for sale in Brazilian pharmacies as an ulcer medication and was distributed over-the-counter. But its use as an abortion-inducing drug spread rapidly, and slipped below the radar at first. Like many drugs, misoprostol’s label had a simple warning: Do not take if pregnant.
In the United States, laws related to self-abortion vary from state to state. In some states, women who induce their own abortions, as well as those who assist them, are subject to criminal liability, and in states like Massachusetts, South Carolina, and Idaho, criminal charges have been brought against women who used miso to end their own pregnancies. In 39 states, it is illegal for anyone other than a medical provider to perform an abortion. But there is no consistency among states when it comes to the penalties for women inducing abortion without a physician, or for those who help them get information about the medications necessary to self-induce.
Mifo and Miso are available in the black market. So is abortion. Abortion can be spontaneous, meaning natural or abortion can be induced that is done by someone or something who or which does something to abort or expel any entity from a fertilized egg or any other entity a woman doesn’t want to support with her bidy.
Keep in mind that an implantation includes a path for a blood supply. Blood vessels come in two types. Arterial and venous. Cutting an artery is serious business. Removing something that is being supplied with blood requires knowledge of what will happen and what has to be done in the event that an artery has been cut. It’s called hemorrhaging and it’s serious business. It’s nothing to play around with.
When government got involved with RU-486 and with abortion a black market developed. By definition government is kept out of black market business. Black market drugs are fraught with problems. Counterfeit RU-486 has shown up. Black market abortions done by desperate and/or incompetent people are unreliable and can be dangerous.
Abortion as a topic is dangerous. So is the politics of abortion. As more and more people get involved on either side or as governments in the states get in the middle of the abortion issue more and more complications are created but abortion is not going away. Abortion is an issue that will never be solved.
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