Abortion

Abortion At present, if a woman chooses to have an abortion, she almost always has a surgical procedure. However, a new French medication called RU 486 is now being used to bring about abortion in very early pregnancy. The abortion pill, as it is commonly called, has had a revolutionary effect on birth control, but has raised a lot of controversy by pro-life and anti-choice advocates since its creation in 1980. The moral debate on the use and legalization of Ru-486 is considered a very “hot” topic today. In a woman's body, the natural hormone known as progesterone is essential for establishing and maintaining a pregnancy. RU 486 is the first of a new generation of birth control drugs called "anti- antiprogestins;” an antagonist of progesterone. It is administered in the form of two pills taken in the time span of two days. This antagonist destroys and reduces the progesterone levels in a woman’s body so that the baby is miscarried. The pill creates a condition to which the body would naturally abort the baby. This creates the advantage of a non-surgical abortion. The abortion pill can only be used within the first nine weeks of pregnancy, before the abortion, life, pregnancy, pill, ru-486, right, progesterone, opinion, body, begins, , wrong, weeks, upon, should, pro-life, person, new, moral, first, claims, called, birth, baby, anti-choice, advocates, woman, within, way, very, two, ru, presented, nine, matter, levels, killing, individual, however, fully, early, dilemma, developed, decide, debate, creates, control, claim, begin, before, around