Ru 486
Tegan Leach has become the unwitting “it” girl for abortion reform in Queensland. Unwitting, because who would have knowingly decided to sign up for the sort of exposure that has been thrust on this Cairns teenager, all because she made a choice thousands of women have made before her to abort a baby she knew she was not ready to care for.
However, the charge she faces is that she allegedly did not do it through the proper channels.
Tegan is expected to sell her story exclusively to a women’s magazine when the dust has finally settled on this case and she is legally able to speak freely outside of court, for hers is a case that has opened a hornet’s nest of debate about the rights or wrongs of do-it-yourself drug-induced abortions in Australia and women’s ability to access them.
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A quick flick through some of the side effects of RU-486 makes for sober reading. These range from stomach cramps, through nausea, vomiting to ectopic pregnancies and severe internal bleeding.
Quite clearly, it is a serious drug that should be treated with some caution and strictly only under medical supervision.
If RU-486 weren’t an abortion drug there wouldn’t be any controversy. No-one would question the prosecution of two people for procuring and administering another pharmaceutical with side effects as serious as those of RU-486. But it was never about the drug. It was about access to abortion.
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Eleanor says:
I believe the question of when life starts is irrelevant. I would still support a woman’s choice to abort a late term pregnancy if she thought it was the best course of action. I would also advocate that it be free, and easy to access. Read more »
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Elle says:
She most certainly did get it. There is a difference between a woman interacting with her own body, and someone else interacting with her body. In the case of a woman seeking abortion, she has made a decision about her body and her life. In the case where a baby… Read more »
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