Recently updated on February 15th, 2023 at 06:58 am
Advantages and Disadvantages of taking the abortion pill, oral and vaginal.
Amongst the numerous controversies encompassing the techniques of choosing an abortion procedure, another concern elevates its head. However, we know that the abortion pill is consumed in 2 different ways. The first one is oral, and the second is vaginal. So here, we have discussed which is the more secure and safer option.
Primarily to concede the safety of either of them, we must first understand the underlying factors of the abortion pill. The medical abortion or the abortion pill comprises the ingestion of 2 medicines named Mifepristone or RU486 to terminate the pregnancy and a second medicine called Misoprostol to assist the body to flush out the pregnancy tissue.
However, being an effective and safe procedure, there are several abortion pill side effects that a woman should be familiar with before taking the risk. Headache, stomach cramps, vomiting, diarrhea, nausea, and heavy bleeding are some of the typical side effects of the abortion pill, and the exceptional ones include damage to the fallopian tube or to the cervix, which can affect further fertility.
Mifepristone is given orally proceeded by Misoprostol later. Misoprostol is administered either orally or vaginally. Prior the pill was given vaginally simply because it was more efficiently absorbed there. It was observed that administering the pill in the vaginal method reduced the symptoms like vomiting, nausea, and diarrhea, and also extended the viability of abortion for women beyond 63 days of incubation, although it brought about bacterial diseases in many cases.
This disease was one of the more severe complications emerging from the use of the legal abortion pill as numerous death was also recorded. At the point when medicinal termination was first introduced, there was no distress about the danger of infection as there was no utilization of instruments either in the uterus or the cervix, except if the abortion procedure stayed incompetent and surgical abortion had to be done to complete the termination. But progressively, it became obvious that severe diseases could happen when the pill was taken vaginally.
After this research, both abortion pills were administered orally within 24- 48 hours of the first alongside anti-biotics, and it was observed that this reduced the danger of serious disease and death by nearly 93%.
However, anti-biotics were advised specifically to just those women whose tests showed that they had sexually transmitted diseases like Chlamydia or Gonorrhea. Although it changed to all women taking anti-biotics without completing any testing, it positively marked down the rate of diseases.
Thus, oral consumption of Misoprostol intends putting the tablet either below the tongue or between the cheek pouches where it should be left to get dissolved automatically with the help of saliva. Placing it within the cheek and the gum enables the medication to go instantly in the bloodstream through the thin slime membranes. Remember that the pill should not be taken directly and should be permitted to break down for not less than 30 minutes. After completion of this time frame, you can swallow the remains of the pill with water.
So going by this survey and medical viewpoint, it can be said that taking abortion pills orally is a safer practice than taking it vaginally.
