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Medication Abortions and the People Trying to Ban Them

It Could Happen Here

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The History of Mission Abortion

Miffer-Prestone and Misoprostol are two drugs that block progesterone, which makes the uterus a hospitable place for an abortion to occur. The French were actually the ones that worked on Miffa-Prostone, R-U-486,. That's the one that blocks the progesterone and stops the pregnancy from progressing. It kind of started in Brazil because it doesn't make sense, but abortion is illegal there.

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