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CV NEWS FEED // A pro-abortion study published Jan. 23 has found that ulipristal acetate can be used as an alternative pill to mifepristone to commit a chemical abortion up to nine weeks into pregnancy.
“Ella” is the name for a 30 milligram dose of ulipristal, a prescription drug that functions as an abortifacient, yet is regarded as a contraceptive.
According to the Associated Press, the 133 pregnant women in the study published by NEJM Evidence took a double dose of that drug, and 24 hours later took misoprostol, which is used to cause cramping and empty the uterus.
The drug combination had a 97% rate of causing an abortion, confirming its function as an alternative to the mifepristone-misoprostol regimen.
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Ulipristal and mifepristone have extremely similar chemical makeups, according to two advisory members of the Abortion Pill Rescue Network (APRN).
Advisory member Julie Lynch McDonald said the two drugs “are chemically identical aside for a substitution on the 17th carbon,” according to a Jan. 30 article from Pregnancy Help News.
APRN’s Dr. William Lile also said the two drugs’ chemical structure “look very similar.”
McDonald said that introducing ulipristal as a mifepristone substitute, while claiming it is a contraceptive, “appears to be an attempt to capitalize on this confusion by modifying a known abortifacient, but marketing it as [emergency contraception].”
Commenting on the chemical abortion study’s findings, Lile said, “This is an attack against the next generation.”
He urged pro-lifers to come to the aid of pregnant women in need of support.
“We need to meet these women, meet their needs, provide them with support,” Lile said. “And let them see the amazing gift of life that God has blessed them with. And celebrate that gift, not kill and destroy that gift.”
