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The ruling earlier this month by a federal judge of Texas to suspend the approval of the United States Food and Medicines Administration of a medicine that is frequently due to drug abortions, is very personal for me.
This is because I taught Mifepristone years ago a duration of a spontaneous abortion, and saved my life.
When Mifepristone prescribed me, I had not yet taken the center of the stage in the United States abortion wars. I did not have to make a hurried road trip through the state lines to obtain my medicine, unlike many women who need drugs, but live in one of the many states that have restricted access to medication or have approved prohibitions close to abortion.
I was not forced to organize a secret meeting with a stranger to buy my medicine in the black market, as several women I spoke recently said they planned to do. Nor did I have to order Mifepristone online and find Myelf navigating the many scammers taking advantage of the current mosaic of state abortion laws in the United States.
Mifepristone is one of the two drugs used in one abortion of medicines and the other, misoprostol, was not subject to the judge of Texas. The two drugs can be administered to some who have a spontaneous abortion, which allows them to finish pregnancy when the fetus is not viable.
It happened a few years ago: after the experimentation, more than a day of hemorrhrestization the first quarter of my pregnancy, I visited my Ob gynec, who explained after examining that my blood pressure was falling bleeding.
For many women, to be prescribed Miffepristone is part of their routine medical attention. It is not so in my case: as my doctor explained, I faced a serious medical emergency. I was grateful for the medication that saved my life.
My spontaneous abortion took me by surprise. I loved being pregnant the first time, approximately a decade before. And as a healthy woman, I had no reason for fear when I got pregnant again. When I managed Mifepristone, I was losing a life that I had already begun to love. And like many other women, despite my level of education or economic status, I could not overcome the statistics that put blacks at high risk.
Up to one in four known pregnancies will end in a spontaneous abortion. And for black women, the numbers are alarmingly higher. According to an analysis or 4.6 million pregnancies in seven countries, the risk of spontaneous abortion for black women is 43% higher than for white women.
In the black community, women have traditionally taught their burns in silence, keep your business for yourself, also after something as devastating as the loss of pregnancy. We are conditioned to do what I did at the time, and keep it in motion while we try to overcome the long list of statistics that tell us that our lives are in danger of all directions, either by risks of medical care for social injustices or their stressful factors.
Duration My spontaneous abortion, I was a woman who was afraid, bleeding and with demanding pain, needed a desperate need for safe emergency medical care. Thanks to the administration of Mifepristone, they allowed me dignity during my spontaneous abortion. It is what every woman deserves: Wheter faces a potential spontaneous abortion of life or seeks an abortion.
I learned from my experience that every spontaneous abortion matters. Women must have access to any medicine and advice we need to help us heal and that includes Mifepristone. What we do not need is to be criminalized by politicians and punitive reproductive laws that have a long leg out of tune with public opinion. Despite the continuous political attacks against the reproductive rights of women, more than 61% of American adults say that abortion should be legal in all or in most cases, according to the PEW Research Center.
After the ASPREME Court of the US Department of Justice. To intervene, Judge Samuel Alito issued a temporary order to preserve the status quo, ensuring access to the medicine while giving the judges the longest time to study the problem.
I hope the judges can put the policy aside and concentrate on the science that surrounds the security of Mifepristone, a drug that, grateful, had access to when my life was in danger. Mifepristone, a synthetic steroid, is safer than common prescription medications that include penicillin and viagra.
After the demands of the science that, regardless of where it is filled in the issue of abortion, consideration must be necessary for cases such as mine and millions of other women who during the year have safely used these medications around spontaneous abortions.
We do not know how the legal struggle on drug abortion will develop. But women throughout the country, in blue and red states equally, are observing. Punitive laws such as the one signed last week by the governor of Florida, Ron Desantis, seek to criminalize reproductive care providers. And what is worse, they are stripping us of the rights that men take for granted, it is unlikely that the law will prohibit them to make medical care decisions about their own bodies.
It must end. And betting on that target that is with our voice or our votes, women will have the last word.