Are Australian women being hoodwinked over RU486?

As usual, the Australian Democrats and the Green Party are pushing for the change that would remove the approval powers of the Australian Minister for Health, to import Mifepristone, one of the drugs that is used in RU486. I believe that Senator Allyson and her cohorts are deliberately hoodwinking Australian women in order to get their agenda approved. Yes, that is right I think that there is an attempt to hoodwink the Australian population on this subject.

The MSM, especially the ABC has embarked upon a propaganda spree, where facts are being deliberately obsfucated with regard to the harmful effects of using Mifepristone as an abortifacient. The confusion that exists also extends to the combination of drugs that is known as the "morning after pill". For the record, the morning after pill is not Mifepristone, it is a combination of estradioil and norgesterel. Its use can make a woman nauseous, and there is no real guarantee that it was needed in the first place. It can also lead to an ectopic pregnancy, which is a very undesirable situation.

Mifepristone can only be used up to the 7th week of pregnancy. After that time, the risks to the woman are very high, and any thought of using Mifepristone for late stage abortion should be considered as well off the radar because of the extreme risk to the health of a pregnant woman. I would go as far as stating that any gynaecologist who would even contemplate using Mifepristone for late stage abortion should be thrown out as a doctor because of his or her lack of responsibility for the welfare of the patient. Such a notion is totally untenable as a suggestion.

One woman who is pro-Choice is Renate Klein. It is worth noting that Ms Klein is also very much against the introduction of RU486 as an alternative method of abortion. Some of Ms. Klein's reasons for opposing RU486 can be found at the following URL: www.spinifexpress.com.au/non-fict/ru486.htm. The reasons given by Ms. Klein and her colleagues are different from the reasons that are used by someone who is totally opposed to abortion under most circumstances. I do not accept all of the statements made by Klein and her colleagues, but I do think that she makes a good points from the feminist point of view and I believe that she deserves to be heard without being abused for not following the path of other feminists who are accepting an uncritical evaluation of the manufacturer's literature relating to RU486.

The first known death from the administration of Mifepristone/Sulprostone (the prostaglandin) was recorded in 1991 in France. The woman was in her 13th pregnancy and it was the result of taking the drug Nalador. (Even one death means that the claim that RU486/PG is not safe and effective. ) Ms Klein and her colleagues make a good case from the point of view that women are being constantly pushed to accept drugs without regard for their safety. I could go further and state that in third world countries there has been a push to get women to use IUDs that are banned in the USA and elsewhere, so I see this as an issue of women being hoodwinked into believing that something is safe when in fact it is dangerous to our health.

In recent days the ABC has been busy pumping out the propaganda with regard to the other possible uses for Mifepristone, and how there are allegedly people who want to use the drug for that other purpose - including as a treatment for breast cancer. However, I would question these uses unless there is strong empirical evidence that the drug has been used for that purpose and that it has led to successful treatment. I fear that the ABC has highlighted a story that falls into the category of a magic cure-all of the snake oil variety. If Mifepristone has a record of treating breast cancer then there is no reason for believing that trials for that purpose could not take place. Was this a case of pure propaganda designed to get public sympathy for the easing of the restrictions for RU486? In this respect I have to say that I accept the arguments of Renate Klein - that we are not being given the full picture.

My investigation into the administration of the drugs that make up RU486 have left me feeling quite horrified that there are women who would allow themselves to be used as guinea pigs by the abortion industry. I am horrified because of the way in which these young women have bee allowed to bleed to death. There is a percentage of women who have need to take the prostaglandin and they are not being properly supervised, neither are they being made aware of the hidden dangers of this technique for abortion. If either of these drugs do not work, then there is a very high risk that the baby will have some form of deformity, if it survives in the womb. There is also an extremely high risk to the mother that she will end up not being able to have any more children. There is a red flag risk that they could up up bleeding to death because of a rare infection.