RU-486

[Teresa2000]

What do you think about the FDA approval of RU-486 (French Abortion Pil).

-Teresa

[Lynn Luckett]

I think that we may be opening up a can of worms. This may lower the unwanted baby population, but what long term affects will it have on our bodies. If a person is 4 or 5 months will the pill be successful in aborting the baby?

Conskeeted Skee Wee

[Catwoman]

I think this world needs Jesus!!!

[LadyAKA]

I think the world most definitely does need Jesus but we need to be sensitive to what people here on earth want/need! Some women need this pill/want it for reasons we could never fathom!! I am not sure how it will react with your body but I am sure it was well researched. And though many women are striving to have children (I am one - not yet, can explain personally)
Anyway, though some of us are fighting to have children there are some women that are not ready and we have to afford them the choice to do as they choose. As long as they are not hurting you or interfering with your life then I say more power to the women that are brave enough to use this drug.

[LadyAKA]

Without getting to political you can tell I am pro-choice ... and before an uproar is started on the board, I do want to say that women should be responsible also!!! Don't ever lay down with a guy an expect not to wake up pregnant ... that is not how we are made, no drug/condom is 100% so of course abstinence is the key but we all know that incest, and rape and other such atrocities occur which is why I am pro choice!!!!

[Lynn Luckett]

I can understand using the pill for such atrocities. I cannot see using the pill for carelessness. Oooops I forgot to use a condom, damn I pregnant. This world is going nowhere fast. I agree we need Jesus!

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[Diva_56]

Originally posted by Catwoman:
I think this world needs Jesus!!!

I couldn't agree more... this Sunday at church we discussed this same issue... America's approving another method to kill unwanted babies, What happened to "One nation under GOD"? every day new measures are being approved to restrict and basically censor the Christian, now we approve of aborting babies and homosexuality... what have we come to?


Dazed and confused about the state of America and the world...

Diva_56

[Discogoddess]

I don't think aborting unborn children and someone's sexuality are in the same sphere...

And, IMO, the world, this nation, nor any people have EVER truly been in obedience of or under God...

[SkeeBunny]

I too am pro-choice (although abortion is not a personal option), but I do not approve of the use of this pill. I think that the counseling and support that women receive at an abortion clinic is sorely needed. Many women decide not to go through with the abortion after hearing of alternative options. Some just decide that they cannot deal with the grief and emotions that often follow an abortion. Allowing women to just pop a pill is just way too impulsive and irresponsible for me. The popping of a pill (birth control) should have have occurred much earlier in the scenario.

[BrandNubian]

Originally posted by Discogoddess:
I don't think aborting unborn children and someone's sexuality are in the same sphere...

And, IMO, the world, this nation, nor any people have EVER truly been in obedience of or under God...

Well said Discogoddess (as usual):

Someone's sexuality and aborting unborn children are not in the same sphere at all.

I myself am pro-choice. I don't know if I personally would be able to have an abortion, but it is not up to me, the government, anybody's religious/spiritual beliefs, etc. to dictate to anyone whether they should bring a child into the world.

This is so political...I can't even discuss all of my feelings about abortion right now.

Peace Love and Progression
B.N.

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-Me'shell Ndegeocello

[WenD08]

for the record, the RU 486 pill is not to be administered beyond the 1st trimester. secondly, those who wish to take this are to see their doctor several times over a 2 week period. this is not taken like an aspirin.
counseling will be made available since this is a method of abortion. those who are not pro-choice should note that the no. of abortions are going down. just b/c this method is now available doesn't mean there will be more.

[AKAtude]

Thank you for the additional information WenD08. I also heard on the news this morning that not just any physician can prescribe the pill. There are certain restrictions in place there as well.

[LadyAKA]

IMO means... just asking I have seen the acronym before but not sure of the original text... thanks

[Discogoddess]

IMO=In My Opinion.

And just riffing off of another topic (We Really Can Make a Difference), I think that the choice to have children should be something entered into reverently and seriously, not because a woman feels she has no other choice, or that she "wasn't raised that way," etc. The resulting children of unwanted pregnancies often find themselves dependent on unequipped, uneducated, unloving people who call themselves parents. Which is the greater evil? And who among us is prepared to assume the burden of raising these same children, even when we didn't birth them? I try to remember to keep these questions before me while contemplating the abortion issue.



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[SkeeBunny]

Thanks for enlightening me WenD08. I was not aware that counseling and medical care were measures taken with the dispensing of this pill. However, I still have major problems with the concept. Forgive my ignorance, but, without being too graphic, maybe someone can answer this for me. What happens to the fetus after the pill is taken. Doesn't it have to be "removed" somehow?