Women 'using web for abortions'

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Women 'using web for abortions'
By Jane Dreaper
Health correspondent, BBC News

There are concerns about abortion on the web

Some women in countries where abortion is restricted are using the internet to buy medication enabling them to abort a pregnancy at home, the BBC has learned.

Women in Northern Ireland and over 70 countries with restrictions have used one of the main websites, Women on Web.

A British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology review of 400 customers found nearly 11% had needed a surgical procedure after taking the medication.

The website says it can help reduce the problems linked with unsafe abortions.

'Stressful experience'

But anti-abortion campaigners called the development of such sites "very worrying indeed".

The research into those who had used Women on Web found that about 8% did not end up using the medication they had ordered.

Almost 11% went on to need a surgical procedure - either because the drugs had not completed the abortion or because of excessive bleeding.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7500237.stm

[Mojambo]

1. Virtual back alley abortions

Wonderful.

[Warpy]

6. Safer than some butcher with an ice pick

or bulb syringe full of caustic ingredients.

Yes, it's risky. Yes, some of them will run into trouble. However, it's well worth the risk if you're pregnant against your will.

The best bet would be to tell the preachers and prick worshipers to get the hell out of the way and make it safe and legal everywhere.

Until then, women will continue to risk their lives on the web or in alleys.

Antiabortion laws kill women.

[Ian David]

2. How long until there's an iBortion device you plug into the USB port.?

Probably not as long as we may think.

Something like a cystoscope with a couple of remotely-operated micro-tools.

[gateley]

3. If the medications had been legal,

these women wouldn't have been on their own trying to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. They deserve the right to have the care of a physician.
(Like I need to say that here :eyes:)

[EFerrari]

5. I know. That was my first thought, too -- this could be dangerous

and why does anyone need to resort to that in 2008? :grr:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

4. an intertube, uterine emptying device?

hey, there's always hanger, back alleys, infections, deaths, and, of course, "special trips to Switzerland" for the upper crust.

[Scairp]

7. Here we are in the 21st Century

And still we continue to regress as it relates to women and our specific issues, not just abortion, but in all rights and liberties in so many countries, even this country. How many centuries until women are not seen as second class citizens, or worse, in any country on this planet? It makes me ill because I have nothing but daughters and stepdaughters living in this world, and still so much discrimination and misogyny.