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Earlier this month by a federal judge in Texas to suspend the approval of the American Food and Drug Administration on a drug used repeatedly to abort the drugs, is very personal for me.
This is because I took MivePristone years ago during the miscarriage, and saved my life.
When MivePristone was described, the lead center has not yet occupied the wars of abortion in America. I had no hasty wild trip across the state lines to obtain a drug, unlike many women who needed the medicine but they live in one of the many countries that restrict access to drug abortion or the passage of a prohibition near abortion.
I was not forced to hold a secret meeting with a strange person to buy a drug on the black market, and many women who spoke to them recently said they were planning to do it. I had no MifePristone request via the Internet I find myself moving Many fraudsters Benefiting from the current patching of abortion laws in the United States.
MivePristone is one of the two drugs used in drug abortion and the other, Mysoprostol, not subject to the referee of the Texas judge. The two medicines can be given to someone who has a miscarriage, allowing them to end the pregnancy when the fetus is vibrant.
This happened a few years ago: After trying more than a day of bleeding during the first third of pregnancy, I visited OB-Gyn, who explained after examining that my blood pressure was decreased quickly and that the severe bleeding I was suffering from was an unambiguous sign of miscarriage.
For many women, MivePristone described prescriptions are part of routine medical care. Not so in my case: As my doctor explained, I was facing a bitter medical emergency. I was grateful to the drug that saved my life.
I took my erasure by surprise. I liked to be pregnant the first time, about a decade ago. As a healthy woman, I had no reason to fear when she became pregnant again. By the time she turned MivePristone, I was losing a life you had already loved. Like many other women, despite the level of education or my economic situation, I could not overcome statistics that expose black women at greater danger.
Up to one of every four known pregnancy It will end up in miscarriage. For black women, the numbers are worried. According to the analysis of 4.6 million pregnancy in seven countries, the risk of miscarriage on black women 43 % higher than white women.
In the black society, women were traditionally taught to carry their burdens silently – keep your work for yourself – even after a devastating thing like a pregnancy loss. We are conditional on that as I did at that time, and keep it move and we are trying to overcome the long list of statistics that tell us that our lives are in danger from every direction, whether it is from the risks of health care to social injustice or other pressures.
During my essences, I was a woman who was afraid, bleeding and painful pain, in urgent need of safe medical care. Thanks to the MifePristone administration, I was allowed to dignity during my deck. This is what every woman deserves-whether she is facing abortion that is likely to threaten life or seeking miscarriage.
I learned from my experience that all abortion matters. Women should enjoy any medications and advice we need to help us recover, which includes MivePristone. What we do not need is to be criminalized by politicians and punitive reproductive laws that have long been not a step with public opinion. Despite the continued political attacks on the reproductive rights of women, more than 61 % of adults say that miscarriage should be legal in all cases or most of them Pio Research Center.
After the US Department of Justice asked the Supreme Court to intervene, Judge Samuel Aleo issued a temporary order to maintain the current situation, and to ensure access to the drug while giving judges more time to study the case.
I hope that the judges can set aside and focus on the science surrounding the safety of MivePristone, a drug, fortunately, I managed to reach it when my life was in danger. MivePristone, artificial steroid, safer than joint prescribed medications including penicillin and Viagra.
Knowledge requires that, regardless of where you stand about the issue of abortion, cases such as me and millions of other women should be considered for years Use this medicine safely For complications surrounding miscarriage.
We do not know how the legal battle will be revealed about drug abortion. But women all over the country – both blue and red – are watched. Punitive laws like the laws that occurred last week by the governor of Florida Ron Desantis are seeking to criminalize reproductive care providers. Worse, they are drawing us from the rights that men take from it – it is unlikely that the law is prohibited from making health care decisions over their bodies.
It must end. I bet that whether it is our voice or our voices, women will get the last word.