Planned Parenthood is now offering no appointment, walk-in abortions at its clinics without a physician on site. How will they do this? By offering dangerous RU 486 chemical abortions at all of their locations, with a Des Moines-based abortionist consulting by webcam.

RU 486 has many complications – some resulting in death. These complications cannot be cured by a heavier dose of pain medication, nor diagnosed by webcam.

           
More Profitable for Planned Parenthood, More Dangerous for Women

It gets worse. Planned Parenthood does not follow FDA Protocol for RU 486. Planned Parenthood gives women a cheaper combination of the pills in an RU 486 abortion, against the recommendations of the Food and Drug Administration, which makes these abortions more profitable for the abortion group and more dangerous for women.

Planned Parenthood gives women a single RU 486 pill, instead of three recommended by the FDA, then ups the dosage of the less expensive prostaglandin, Misoprostol, which expels the baby.

Planned Parenthood also cuts back the number of appointments the FDA recommends for an RU 486 abortion from three to two, which also increases Planned Parenthood’s profits by reducing office and staffing expenses.

Women Facing Their Abortion Alone

RU 486 abortions are less messy for Planned Parenthood and more traumatizing for women, because the women are forced to deal with the blood and the dead baby at home – alone. RU 486 abortions take longer and are bloodier than a surgical abortion. Unlike a surgical abortion, there is a greater chance the woman may see the aborted baby and all of his or her features.

Complications from RU 486 include deadly ectopic pregnancies, bacterial infection and excessive bleeding. At least 11 women have died after taking RU 486, including five women in the United States.  A woman who had taken RU 486 during clinical trials at a Des Moines clinic in 1995 nearly bled to death.

Protect Iowa's Mothers, Daughters and Sisters

Please help us spread the word!  Educate yourself on how an RU 486 abortion affects the body and the complications that can result on our RU 486 Page.  Talk to your families, friends, neighbors, church and other organizations and tell them what's going on.

 

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