Get Ready for Controvercy

With all of the searching I do, my search suggestions become interesting overtime. Imagine my surprise when an article from NPR pops up with a topic everyone in our class can be interested in. Dr. Grossman and other colleges of his reported that they had a reversal for chemical abortion.

The article explains first how chemical abortions work, the use of two drugs taken one after the other. The first blocks the creation of progesterone, the hormone that tells a woman's body to not produce an ovum because she is pregnant. According to Grossman, if progesterone is administered after the hour that it takes to digest and absorb the first drug that the pregnancy can continue as usual.

As fascinating as that is, this potentially has huge risks for the infant. Signal chains that are keeping the cells in proper working order are being halted and then restarted. Since the study happened in 2012, there has not been enough time to research the patients he has already tested. Just because the pregnancy came to term does not mean that the individual will live a life free of issues, some of which related to the procedure.

Additionally, a review of the very same study saw some discrepancies with in the science and statistics. There was no control group because of the nature of the reversal procedure. I can understand that people can change their mind but using these people as test subjects at all feels unfair. The statistical analysis also did not stand up to scrutiny as correlation calculations showed no linkage between the use of the reversal and the child coming to term.

With all of this backlash and conflict, it would be expected that the law would be causes about adopting new policies. Unfortunately, many states have so many restrictions that individuals might feel pressured not to go through with the process or become fearful of consequences. With Grossman's support and promotion through organizations, laws about the reversal procedure are being written even though FDA researchers have not approved the procedure. I know this topic has a lot of emotions ridding on it but I hope this can lead to a civil discussion.