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Abortion Pills History and Laws
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Since decades, medication methods are used to cause abortion. A combination of tablets are taken to empty the uterus. The agents used to terminate a pregnancy are anti-progesterones and prostaglandins. In the United States, Mifepristone is marketed by the Danco Laboratories, LLC, which is under Mifeprex as trade name, sold to the physicians. The medication can soften and dilate cervix leading to decidual necrosis that is ‘placental detachment’. It increases prostaglandin releasing from uterine lining, and with Cytotec (brand name for Misoprostol), frequents uterine contractions and sensitivity to prostaglandin. Thus, myometrial contractions expel pregnancy tissues by ripening cervix. In few days the womb is left empty of all the pregnancy sections. Progress of Abortions Pills – Then and Now In 1980, a product named Mifepristone was developed, which were later marketing in the U.S as RU-486 and Mifeprex, used initially to begin pregnancy termination. The medicine blocks progesterone hormone in body, by binding to the hormone’s receptors. In 1985, Mifeprex was discovered to sensitize myometrium to prostaglandin. Thus administration of it with Cytotec shot efficacy of medical abortion from 80 to 95 percent. In 1988, Mifepristone gained licensed use in France, which was given along with Misoprostol (prostaglandin analogue that... View Article
