The pro-life movement will continue to reach out to women in crisis pregnancies, to help them see that even early in pregnancy, there's always a better choice than abortion. And we will not join in Planned Parenthood's celebration this week. Because the miracle of a new life created remains far more worthy of celebration than the advent of a new way to end that life. It will not be. It causes abortion in the first nine weeks of pregnancy by acting as a progesterone blocker.
Progesterone is a natural hormone created by a woman's body.
The presence of progesterone in the womb is necessary for the continuation of a safe pregnancy. By filling the receptors in the uterine lining of a pregnant woman designed for progesterone, mifepristone causes the uterine lining to break down and keeps the child from surviving. Misoprostil, a prostaglandin, must then be taken, usually a few days later, to induce hemorrhaging in the womb that expels the dead unborn child from the womb within a week. Tom Coburn Blocking progesterone in the womb causes the breakdown of the uterine lining, cutting the child off from his or her supply of food and oxygen. This causes death from starvation and suffocation over a period of about three days.