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The process of taking the RU 486 may prove very convenient to people who
engage in promiscuous sex like sex workers and more appaling circumstances
of rape and unprotected sex. The fact is that RU486 does not work as one
pop pill that solves all the delimnas of a non-committed pregnant woman
it consists of three steps and two drugs, the entire process supervised
by a physician. At first, the doctor determines if a woman is indeed pregnant
and for how long. The drug is more effective in cases where the fetus has
not been fully developed because its discharge from the woman's system
would be easier. In the United States, mifepristone can be used only within
seven weeks from the last menstruation period.
After an assessment of the physician, the woman takes three pills of mifepristone
during the first visit. She has to return to the doctor after 36 to 48
hours to take two tablets of misoprostol, a drug familiar to Filipino as
the Cytotec, which has long been used as abortifacient that makes
the uterus contract to expel the embryo.
To be able to make sure that the abortion is complete, the woman has to
return after two weeks certify that no fetal tissue remains in her uterus.
Five percent of misoprostone-misoprostol combination abortion are
usually incomplete and the doctor has to surgically remove the fetal tissues
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