Solving the Issue of using Abortion for Political Purposes
This idioicy of using abortion for political purposes needs to end, and we need to put the decision about whether to abort in the hands of the person to whom it matters the most.
What we need is someone to come up with a safe, relatively easy way to initiate an abortion on one's own. Find some way, natural, chemical, mechanical, or a combination of those that would allow a woman to initiate an abortion on her own if she so chooses, without the need for medical assistance, the need to have to endure the bullshit waiting periods, the skewed presentation of information about fetuses feeling pain before they even have the nervous system to do so, the need to get permission from a parent, and the significant number of other indignities that one must now endure if she chooses to terminate a pregnancy.
This would require using substances or implements that are commonly available and used for many other purposes, lest they be "regulated" and the politics continue.
There are already ways that one can use that have the potential for causing an abortion, but they are by no means 100% reliable. Someone needs to conduct some research and figure out a way to do it. I know this would be tough, but finding such a solution would remove the issue of abortion from use by politicians, AND would finally put the freedom to choose whether or not to terminate a pregnancy in the hands of the person who rightfully should have that choice - the woman who is pregnant.
Someone step up and get it done. Please.
What we need is someone to come up with a safe, relatively easy way to initiate an abortion on one's own. Find some way, natural, chemical, mechanical, or a combination of those that would allow a woman to initiate an abortion on her own if she so chooses, without the need for medical assistance, the need to have to endure the bullshit waiting periods, the skewed presentation of information about fetuses feeling pain before they even have the nervous system to do so, the need to get permission from a parent, and the significant number of other indignities that one must now endure if she chooses to terminate a pregnancy.
This would require using substances or implements that are commonly available and used for many other purposes, lest they be "regulated" and the politics continue.
There are already ways that one can use that have the potential for causing an abortion, but they are by no means 100% reliable. Someone needs to conduct some research and figure out a way to do it. I know this would be tough, but finding such a solution would remove the issue of abortion from use by politicians, AND would finally put the freedom to choose whether or not to terminate a pregnancy in the hands of the person who rightfully should have that choice - the woman who is pregnant.
Someone step up and get it done. Please.
posted by StripGoddess at 5:45 PM
8 Comments:
Are you nuts? If anything this new product would only fuel political abortion debates; just like the morning afer pill, which you still can't get over the counter as if women couldn't control themselves or something cause they like feeling heavily nausiated and hormonally unbalanced. However I agree with you, non-surgical abortion sounds pretty good; although abortions have become pretty advanced causing very little discomfort or side-effects but more choice is always good. Cotton is an abortifacient, it also can make men sterile aswell as having many other proporties and I can assure you that some pharmaceutical company has already modified the component responsib; for this effect, glossipol, in order to patent it; the only reason it's not coming out as a drug on the market is politics. I believe there sould be goverment funded studies on herbal and herbal based drugs because pharmaceuticals run the show; they fund all the studies even in universities and thus control what is researched and herbal drugs cannot be patented and so therefor have to be altered or discarded.
The morning after pill is available to women over the age of 18 without a prescription. Women and men have throughout history used natural methods to induce miscarriages or find people with the know-how. If not accurate or as safe, we will be back to using them once abortions are restricted or outlawed. The morning after pill is only the first version and will continued to be improved upon. What is also needed is a pill men can take to temporarily sterilize their sperm. There is no reason for them not researching such a pill or making it available.
Bat
In Canada you have to get a prescription to get the morning after pill, hopefully that will change; but it is quite easy to get an abortion. I looked it up and their is a drug called Misoprostol, it is 98% effective and is approved to be used in the first 49 days by the FDA; it can be used alone but for some reason that isn't FDA approved, it has to be used in conjunction with either methotrexate or mifepristone which apparently costs 100$ instead of 1$. I got this from wikipedia BTW. The pill for men has and is been researched but a hormonal pill for men is not likely, men don't have monthly hormonal cycles and tricking the body into not producing sperm is just not as simple as stoping women from ovulating; Glossipol was researched and for many reasons, such as it's toxicity and high rate or irreversible steritlity, it was abandoned. Apparently papaya seeds and plain old heat are good male contraceptives but research is needed. Anyhow, I don't think any of these methods are that desirable; prevention is the key, education aswell as creating the right environment for women to have children are the best solutions in my opinion. I wasn't surprised to learn that the Netherlands had the lowest rate of abortions, 10.6 per 100 known pregnancies as opposed to the world ratio of 26 (which is also the north american ratio); the Netherlands has extensive sex education and, being fairly socialist, also has many financial aid programs and tada, as if by magic, they have low abortion rates. Check this out for more interesting stats: http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/25s3099.html
All in all I see what your getting at, if women could have control over their abortions it would terminate the political debate cause no one would even have to know; but some form of education would be needed anyhow and it would be much better to implement good laws.
I never considered this possibility, but you're right. It has to be easier, more mainstream, more accessible, so much so that it can't be regulated by any means.
Until then... I offer my support to all those seeking to exercise their choice.
What we need to do is remove the Old White Men from the equation completely. Tho, I'm not entirely sure this makes sense either. Do we really want young women doing this on their own? I mean, consider how delicate our sex organs are to begin with, is it wise to be able to influence that without appropriate medical supervision?
I agree we have to do something though, and remove the politics from what should be between a woman and her doctor.
xoxo,
nina
Well, I'm an old (61) man, who noticed Stripper commenting over at Feministe, and was hoping there would be a combination of herbs (which soon will be illegal to grow in your own home, mon!) discovered which could be dissiminated over the 'net. It does sound kinda utopian, a la Joanna Russ, but it is something to work for, and remember, and pass on.
Good site: thanks.
JohnieB
Beg pardon: make that "Strip Goddess." Bad memory and poor computer skills.
JohnieB
Well, I am way late on this, but I happened to stop by and got to perusing.
Having read addictedtolife's comment, I just wanted to make an important note that emergency contraception has actually been available without prescription all across Canada since Spring 2005. I guess word is not out enough.
More information here:
http://www.ppfc.ca/ppfc/content.asp?articleid=500
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