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Saturday, August 21, 2010

Tele Med Abortions and internet medical advice: a deadly combination

How long must you take the Abortion Pill for?

I am not talking about the morning after pill. I am talking about the pill where you can take it within like 7 or 8 weeks. Do you just take 1 pill and thats it, or do you take it over a certain amount of days?
Thanks

Several pro life groups are protesting the use of telemed abortions and are asking the IA Board of Medicine to halt this practice.  Maybe it will stop posts like the above by what appears to be a young girl going to the internet to seek medical advice from strangers......did she get this from a dr.? What about informed consent?? Was the dr. even on site?? Where is the follow up for questions such as this?? I hope she is just being curious and asking in advance. This is deadly medicine ......not only to her pre born child.....which is the intent I realize but can be to her. Women have bled and died from this form of abortion including one in TN whose symptoms after taking the pill were "blown off" by the people she called following the dosage and it turned out she had an ectopic pregnancy which took her life. So this is a big deal and nothing to be cute about as PP goes to telemed abortions to keep their revenue up.
Some excerpts from the article.
"There is no doctor-patient relationship. There is an Internet conference that lasts just a few minutes. The physician never physically examines the woman. ... Then he never sees her again, even if she has a medical emergency," Sullenger said.
Planned Parenthood's system, the first of its kind in the nation, allows a physician in Des Moines to interact via computer with patients who are seeking abortions in small-town clinics.

Once the doctor is satisfied that the patient meets the criteria, he or she enters a computer command that opens a drawer in front of the patient.
The patient then reaches into the drawer, retrieves the abortion pills and takes the first dose as the doctor watches.

More than 1,500 Iowa patients have used Planned Parenthood of the Heartland's videoconferencing system to obtain abortion drugs in the past two years.

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