Kansas will require annual, unannounced inspections of abortion clinics, impose new health and safety rules specifically for them and prevent them from using telemedicine systems to dispense pregnancy-terminating drugs under legislation signed Monday by Gov. Sam Brownback.
Oftentimes women are under the delusion that abortion has no side effects, or that taking Plan B type drugs to terminate at home are easy. This is not true and taking steps to ensure abortion clinics can’t get away with facilitating what are actually difficult procedures is a good thing.








Quick fact check Andrea.
Plan B is not an abortion drug. It may prevent an embryo from implanting into the uterine lining, but it will not affect a pregnancy that has already been implanted.
Actually, from what I’ve been reading lately, Plan B is rather a waste of money, because it doesn’t work at all. Be that as it may, the drugs that you are talking about are not Plan B, or Plan B-type.
There is only one type of pill abortion available in Canada (as far as I know). That is a methotrexate/misoprostol abortion. Methotrexate is a chemotherapy drug used to kill the embryo. Misoprostol (Cytotec) is an ulcer medication that is used off-label to induce uterine contractions and expel the embryo and the rest of the pregnancy tissue. In the States, RU 486 is often used in place of methotrexate, but Health Canada has not approved RU-486 for use in Canada (a woman died during the trial.)
Anyway, you are right about the process not being easy. Pill abortion is not just like having another period. It can be a long and drawn-out process; it can be very painful.
I think it depends on how you define an abortion. Definitely Plan B, like the Pill (and all hormonal birth control, actually), works in 3 possible ways, 2 of which keep the sperm from the egg, but one of which prevents the embryo from implantation. If you define abortion as the ending of the new human life, then Plan B definitely works as an abortifacient in some cases. If you count abortion as the ending of the mother-specific pregnancy changes, then you’re probably right that Plan B doesn’t interrupt those processes.