Politics
Friday March 21, 2003
PRO-ABORT DOCTORS RECOMMEND UNREGULATED DRUG USE FOR ILLEGAL ABORTION
Cytotec Ulcer Remedy Spreading As Abortion Method
TODAY'S HEADLINES
E-MAIL
PRINT
SANTO DOMINGO, March 21, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Women determined to obtain an abortion, and doctors who promote abortion, are praising the use of an ulcer treatment to induce chemical abortions. This despite the fact that the company which markets the drug has warned of severe side effects when the drugs are used while pregnant.
Cytotec, the ulcer drug, is popular among anti-life elements in countries like the Dominican Republic. "No one yet knows the best ways to use it but ... where abortion is illegal and unsafe, it might be the single safest method," said Dr. Beverly Winikoff, director of reproductive health for the New York-based Population Council.
Known generically as misoprostol and made by New Jersey-based Pharmacia Inc., Cytotec is often taken in conjunction with mifepristone, also known as RU-486. But where the latter is not available, mothers who are truly determined to kill their own child are recklessly encouraged by pro-abortion doctors to take the ulcer drug by itself.
Dr. Philip D. Darney, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco, called Cytotec "pretty safe and effective." However, pro-life leaders point to the warnings on the product information leaflet on Cytotec which indicates several warnings of severe risks when taken to induce abortion. One such statement reads: "Miscarriages caused by Cytotec® may be incomplete, which could lead to dangerous bleeding, hospitalization, surgery, infertility, or maternal or fetal death."
For newswire coverage:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030320/ap_wo_en_he/cb_fea_me...
For information on Cytotec:
http://www.abortionconcern.org/abortioninfo/cytotec.htm
Back to TopLatest Headlines
- BREAKING: US Congress Passes Health Care Reform Bill 220 to 215
- Stupak Amendment to Health Care Bill Passes 240 - 194 Saturday Evening
- Major Health Care Development - Pro-Life Stupak Amendment Vote OK'd for Today
- NY Times: Dems Banking on Later Squeezing Pro-Life Language Out of Bill in Committee
- USCCB Spokesman: "Definitely Not True" that Bishops Support Bill As it Stands
- TIME Got it Wrong - Prof. George Opposed Grandiose Kennedy Funeral
- USCCB Condemnation Tears Facade off "Phony" Abortion Compromise for Health Bill
- Health Care Bill Includes Monthly Abortion Premium: House Minority Leader Boehner
- TIME Article Setting Burke Against O'Malley Called "Tactical strike" on Behalf of Catholic Left
- Dirty Fighting on Abortion Funding: Word-Games and Health-Care Theatrics Boggle the Mind
- Commentary on November 6 News
- Note to LifeSiteNews Subscribers with Rogers email addresses
- New York Gov. Declares Nov. 10 Extraordinary Legislative Session for Same-Sex "Marriage"
- Washington's Pro-Family Amendment Effort Defeated - R-71 Almost Certain to Pass
- Vote Pushed Back on Canadian Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Bill to Dec. 2
- Elderly U.K. Couple in Good Health Commit Suicide, Complain of Assisted Suicide Law
- Texas Late-Term Abortionist and Baptist Minister Admits: "Am I killing? Yes, I am"
- New Evidence Contradicts CCHD's Findings on Accused Pro-Abortion Partner
- Quebec Priest Denies Possibility of Sexual Reorientation Therapy on TV
- New Hampshire Same-Sex "Marriage" Law in Crosshairs after Maine's Law Crumbles
- Brooklyn Bishop Criticized for Recorded Message Praising Pro-Abortion Politician
- First Group of "Traditionalist" Anglicans in Britain Votes to Enter Catholic Church
Most Read this Week
- Planned Parenthood Director Resigns after Watching Ultrasound of Abortion Procedure
- Nun Defiant Following Rebuke, but Stops Abortion Escorting
- Breaking: Dominican Community Apologizes for Nun Caught Acting as Abortion Escort
- TIME Article Setting Burke Against O'Malley Called "Tactical strike" on Behalf of Catholics Left
- Over 200 Christendom College Students Protest Abortion at Planned Parenthood Clinic
- Scottish Gay Rights Activists Found Guilty of Pedophilia Sentenced to Life Imprisonment
- Newly Identified Corporate Supporters of Planned Parenthood Named
- US Congress Passes Health Care Reform Bill 218 to 215
- Major Health Care Bill Development - Stupak Hyde Amendment Vote OK'd
- Health Care Bill Includes Monthly Abortion Premium: House Minority Leader Boehner
MORE NEWS: 
LifeSiteNews.com Home Page Last 10 Days Archives Special Reports
Copyright © LifeSiteNews.com. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives License. You may republish this article or portions of it without request provided the content is not altered and it is clearly attributed to "LifeSiteNews.com". Any website publishing of complete or large portions of original LifeSiteNews articles MUST additionally include a live link to www.LifeSiteNews.com. The link is not required for excerpts. Republishing of articles on LifeSiteNews.com from other sources as noted is subject to the conditions of those sources.