Trump Official Discussed Experimental Prodecure to Rrverse Teens Abortion

[RandySF]

“The Trump administration official in charge of the Office of Refugee Resettlement discussed trying to use a controversial, scientifically unproven method to reverse an undocumented teen’s abortion,” according to documents reviewed by Vice News.

“In the past few years, opponents of abortion have championed the idea of halting a medication abortion midway by using the hormone progesterone… But there is no credible medical evidence that such a procedure works, and the mainstream medical community worries that using it amounts to experimentation on women.”


https://politicalwire.com/2018/01/31/trump-official-discussed-reversing-abortion-teen/

[C_U_L8R]

1. Wait. Are they talking about forced impregnation??

How is it that there are any women at all in the Republican party? Seriously !

[fleur-de-lisa]

4. See response #3.

I think the term 'reverse abortion' is completely misleading.

[icymist]

11. More like medical experiments on detainees.

mainstream medical community worries that using it amounts to experimentation on women.

Gee, just like the Nazis.

[Pachamama]

2. WTF????

[fleur-de-lisa]

3. I wish this article explained the procedure better.

I had to look up 'reverse abortion' because the term doesn't really make sense. You can't reverse an abortion. Article from Mother Jones:

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/medication-abortion-pill-reversal-science-christian/

"A medication abortion typically involves two drugs. The first, mifepristone, which is administered in a doctor’s office, ends the pregnancy, and the second, misoprostol, which the woman takes at home, expels it from her body."

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"But many doctors and medical experts have pointed to a number of problems with the technique. The leading medical association for obstetricians and gynecologists wrote of the 2015 Arizona bill: “claims of medication abortion reversal are not supported by the body of scientific evidence.” In a review of the literature on mifepristone, Dr. Daniel Grossman and others point out that Delgado’s study did not have approval from an institutional review board, which usually monitors research involving human subjects. Nor does the study actually make the case that the women’s pregnancies continued because of the mifepristone; as Grossman explains, taking mifepristone alone—without misoprostol—can result in a continued pregnancy up to 46 percent of the time, depending on the dosage and the gestational age of the fetus. In other words, doing nothing after taking mifepristone might be as effective as the progesterone doses."

[renate]

5. I know this sounds overdramatic, but my first thought was of Josef Mengele

For employees of the United States government to talk about experimenting on a refugee against her will... this is truly, truly, truly chilling.

[sheshe2]

6. I was just going to post about Josef Mengele.

It was my thought as well, renate.

[Buns_of_Fire]

8. My first thought, too. Drumpf apparently likes surrounding himself with nazi-types.

[smirkymonkey]

13. Gah!

I was not prepared for that. He creeps me out more and more every time I see him.

[Liberal Veteran]

9. It's all sounds rather like The Handmaid's Tale, doesn't it? -nt

[procon]

7. Ghouls! Leave women alone!

Men have to clean up their own problems with sexuality first. If men don't want women to have abortions, then deal with their own gender first! Pass laws mandating forced vasectomies starting at age 10. Ban Viagra type drugs. Then move on to forced castration, turn a few thousand of you randy old geezers in to eunuchs and I guarantee you that fewer woman will get knocked up.

[Flaleftist]

10. Forced experimental medical procedures. Sounds like some Nazi shit.

[Initech]

14. Yeah seriously. This is some fucked up shit.

[Blue_Tires]

12. I miss all those alt-left hot takes on why Hillary would have been just as bad if she won