Washington, D.C. (18 March 2009) – American Life League was alerted yesterday to an alarming trend in Wisconsin – teenagers drinking large farm animal veterinary medication to self-induce abortions.
Reports from the American Animal Hospital Association, as well as personal testimonies from pregnancy caregivers and counselors in Green County, note the spread of the deadly practice in rural communities of Wisconsin.
In an article entitled “Cows and Chemical Coat Hangers,” American Life League president Judie Brown exposed the link between legal medical abortions (commonly called RU-486) and the new trend. Quoting Celebrate Life editor Stephanie Hopping, Brown notes the veterinary medication abortions
“… illustrate that decriminalized abortion does not stop highly dangerous abortion methods like this. In fact, it probably encourages the use of them mightily, because this is hardly different from an RU-486 abortion, except that it isn’t done under medical supervision.”
Medical abortions are on the rise according to a report released last week from American Life League that surveyed the rise in Planned Parenthoods (the nation’s largest abortion chain) offering medical abortions.
“A teenager who is trying to hide the truth from her parents, and knows that the local farmer has a drug that is going to take care of her ‘problem,’ could not only succeed in killing her baby, but could kill herself,” said Brown. “The culture of death would shed not a tear, of course, but for those of us who struggle to restore moral sanity to America, a report like this sends shivers down our spines.”
Anna Anderson, executive director of Care Net Pregnancy Center of Green County, exposed this grisly trend in the Freeport, Illinois-based, Stephenson County Right to Life’s ‘Pro-Life Corner’ web site.
Anderson has received numerous calls and visits to her pregnancy care center from teens who have taken the drugs or are concerned for friends doing so. Anderson reports the practice has spread to at least three counties in rural Wisconsin and probably more.
Teens are obtaining the drug under the name Prostaglandins, Cystorelin, Factrel, Gonadorelin, or Lutalyse and are reportedly drinking large quantities of the drug – normally injected into horses, cows and pigs.
Besides the death of their preborn baby, young women risk life-threatening complications including uterine infection, excessive blood loss, psychological damage, even asthmatic attacks.
“What kind of world have we created for these girls that they’re drinking poison and risking death in these modern-day back alley abortions, rather than bear their child in love?” Brown asked.
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