Louisiana became the first state to make it a crime to possess the two main US abortion pills without a prescription, after a new law added mifepristone and misoprostol to the list of controlled substances like highly addictive narcotics.
Apparently it’s still going to be legal to possess them with a prescription, but can doctors in Louisiana write such a prescription?
about 0.3% of people who used mifepristone to end a pregnancy experienced a major complication, meaning they required hospitalization, surgery or a blood transfusion. Surgical abortions done in the first trimester of pregnancy, by comparison, resulted in major complications 0.16% of the time
These pills are more dangerous than a surgical abortion? That’s not what I would have expected.
A thought experiment: do the legislators care as much about adequate food, shelter, medical care? Water and cooling breaks for laborers, including prisoners? If not, is protecting people an ostensible goal or actual goal?
The quote says “major complications” and defines what that means. It’s not just side effects. It is definitely surprising that the rate of complications is so much higher for the pills. Still, I think that’s something a doctor should take into account when prescribing and not a valid reason to ban it.
Apparently it’s still going to be legal to possess them with a prescription, but can doctors in Louisiana write such a prescription?
These pills are more dangerous than a surgical abortion? That’s not what I would have expected.
0.3% experienceing side effects is hardly “dangerous”. That’s an order of magnitude less frequent than peanut allergies.
This is not about looking after the best interest of anyone
I don’t disagree; I’m just talking about relative risk.
A thought experiment: do the legislators care as much about adequate food, shelter, medical care? Water and cooling breaks for laborers, including prisoners? If not, is protecting people an ostensible goal or actual goal?
Keep in mind, side effects can be literally anything reported - headaches, stomach cramps, etc.
The quote says “major complications” and defines what that means. It’s not just side effects. It is definitely surprising that the rate of complications is so much higher for the pills. Still, I think that’s something a doctor should take into account when prescribing and not a valid reason to ban it.
It says “major complication” that required hospitalization, not side effects.
If pieces remain, they need a D&C, which would never be a complication with surgical abortion because that’s the surgery.