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Originally posted by Munchkin03
Okay, now I'm really confused. This is what I got off of the Planned Parenthood site:
Mifepristone provides women with a medical alternative to aspiration (suction) abortion. Mifepristone, approved for use as an abortifacient by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on September 28, 2000, is an antiprogesterone drug that blocks receptors of progesterone, a key hormone in the establishment and maintenance of human pregnancy. Mifepristone induces spontaneous abortion when administered in early pregnancy and followed by a dose of misoprostol, a prostaglandin.
But, there's a reason I'm going to be an architect--I don't do science.  Is there a difference between Mifepristone and RU-486?
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I haven't kept up with the literature regarding the use of abortion drugs. So, I will have to look into it... But from what I understand, which I could be wrong, I do not think that the abortion drugs are "allowed" for human use in the United States...
These drugs are rather peculiar in their actions from what I understand. One has to take them at least 3 times over a 1-2 week period? And it is like it is causing a "spontaneous abortion" or miscarriage, which can be harmful to the mother simply because of the huge blood loss. Careful monitoring must be done. And if a patient does not follow the regimen, then ending the pregnancy is not ensured--no telling what that does to a fetus or the mother...
Someone said about the ABO blood grouping and differences in phenotype and genotype...
Remember--basic genetics:
Phenotype is: what you see is what you get...
Genotype is: what is exactly, physically present in a piece of DNA...
My mother is A, phenotypically, my father is O--in order to be completely O and not any other, my father MUST be OO, genotypically... Which makes me an AO genotype--definitely... That suggests my mother is AA, genotypically... Make sense?
PM me if it does not... I had to teach my students this difference all the time...