Dawson Church
See book keywords and concepts |  The answer comes from an unlikely source: The establishment of legal abortion on demand. When unwanted children could be aborted, many accidental or unplanned pregnancies were ended this way. Women who were economically or psychologically unable or unwilling to raise their babies had the option of abortion. Many exercised their new legal right.
This meant that most of the babies born were wanted by the mother, father, or both. These children presumably received better nurturing than the unwanted children of the pre-abortion era. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Unfortunately, the political fracas around abortion—and the real risk to workers and patients of clinic violence—has made access to abortion more rather than less difficult in recent times. We must recall that the battle for birth control was nearly as emotional; perhaps someday we will see this struggle resolved as well.
In the interim, if you choose an abortion, consult your regular provider first. Gynecologists and family doctors need to realize how many women (1. |
Dawson Church
See book keywords and concepts | | The availability of abortion created an abrupt decrease in the number of neglected babies, and an abrupt increase in the number of nurtured babies. We now know that nurturing initiates epigenetic signals that produce less fearful and anxious adults. Twenty years after the legalization of adoption, when both groups had grown up, the pool of violent adults had shrunk, leading to the sudden and precipitate drop in the crime rate.8 Without knowing it, society, by legalizing abortion, made an epigenetic intervention that resulted in less violence a generation later. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Decreased levels have been linked in studies to spontaneous abortion and threatened abortion, particularly before 12 weeks.110
No recommended dose available.
Methionine (SAM). Methionine is a component of many proteins, serving as a source of available sulfur for synthesizing both cysteine and taurine, crucial to cellular metabolism. Supplementation with methionine in mice reduced neural tube defects by 47 percent111 and also positively affected birth weight and size.112
No recommended dose available.
Phosphatidylcholine (PC). |
David R. Montgomery
See book keywords and concepts |  Under a council of chiefs who monitored the balance between the human population and natural resources, Tikopians practiced draconian popularion control based on celibacy, contraception, abortion, and infanticide, as well as forced (and almost certainly suicidal) emigration.
Arrival of Western missionaries upset the balance between Tikopia's human population and its food supply. In just two decades the island's population shot up by 40 percent after missionaries ourlawed traditional population controls. |
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See book keywords and concepts | | POSSIBLE EXPLANATIONS
Nepomnaschy says it's unclear why a boost in Cortisol might raise miscarriage risks, but he speculates, "The body might interpret that [increased Cortisol level] as conditions deteriorating, and that might trigger an abortion mechanism."
Another expert, Dr. Mary Stephenson, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology, who runs the Recurrent Pregnancy Loss Program at the University of Chicago, says, "It's an intriguing [study]. Certainly more research is needed. But it is a potential mechanism by which miscarriage may occur. |
Devra Davis
See book keywords and concepts |  In a piquant comment on the conflict over HPV vaccine, Katha Pol-litt wrote in The Nation, "I remember when people rolled their eyeballs if you suggested that opposition to abortion was less about 'life' than about sex, especially sex for women. You have to admit that thesis is looking pretty solid these days. No matter what the consequences of sex—pregnancy, disease, death—abstinence for singles is the only answer. Just as it's better for gays to get AIDS than use condoms, it's better for a woman to get cancer than have sex before marriage. It's honor killing on the installment plan. |
Andreas Moritz
See book keywords and concepts |  If you have an unwanted pregnancy, there are pills to induce an abortion. If you cannot curb your appetite, you can suppress it just by popping a pill. If you complain to your doctor about not having an appetite, he can prescribe a pill that can increase it for you. There are pills for allergies and to attract the opposite sex (based on pheromones). Mood-enhancing and anti-stress pills also abound. Eventually, your dependency on pills will make you depressed. But, of course pills exist for that condition, too. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts |  Most are done for fibroid tumors that present no immediate problems, inflamation or bleeding, or are associated with abortion or sterilization. One study found that in half of all hysterectomies reviewed, accuracy of the preoperative diagnosis could not be evaluated.13 Some suggest that a "majority of hysterectomies performed for menorrhagia (excessive bleeding from menstruation) are unnecessary," advocating instead less invasive procedures.14
No question: the routine hysterectomy is now under scrutiny.15 Surgeons are becoming defensive. | | Even in medicine, the very fundamental concept of "life" is controversial, that is, to say difficult to define, as witnessed by the fierce debates over abortion and stem cell research, not to mention end-of-life issues.
It's not just doctors and their procedures that would disappear," Fran pointed out. "It's a whole way of thinking about health and illness."
I nodded. Medical practice is more than a set of procedures and techniques. It is directed by a powerful ideology that guides the way physicians think and act. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts |  Poisonings in earlier times were seen in connection with its misuse for purposes of abortion. overdosage
Following gastrointestinal emptying (inducement of vomiting, gastric lavage with burgundy-colored potassium permanganate solution, sodium sulfate), and instillation of activated charcoal, the treatment of poisonings consists of treating spasms with diazepam (I.V.) and colic with atropine; electrolyte substitution and treating possible cases of acidosis with sodium bicarbonate infusions. Monitoring of kidney function is essential. Intubation and oxygen respiration may also be necessary. | | Indian Medicine: for febrile conditions, coughs, skin conditions, retention of the placenta, postpartum bleeding, threatening abortion, insufficient uterine contractility, and snake bites. precautions and adverse reactions
No health hazards are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. It is conceivable that gastric complaints and nausea might be experienced, as well as kidney irritation, due to the high level of saponin content. overdosage
Overdose could lead to European cholera, increased diuresis, and shock. | | Some other uses are as antitussives (cough remedies), sneezing-powder for chronic rhinitis, for inflammation of the eye, for pneumonia, angina pectoris, migraines, liver disease and jaundice, for dehydration, as an emmenagogue (menstrual stimulant) and for artificial abortion. The dried, powdered leaves have been used as an ingredient of some snuffs, helping to expel mucus from the respiratory passages.
Homeopathic Uses: Homeopathic uses include diarrhea and exhaustion. | | A drug or chemical that induces abortion. achene A small 1-seeded fruit which has a pericarp attached to the seed at only one point. acuminate Pointed, or tapering to a slender point. adaptogen A preparation that acts to strengthen the body and increase resistance to disease. alterative Any drug used to favorably alter the course of an ailment and to restore health. To improve the excretion of wastes from the circulatory system. amarum Bitters. androgynous In botany, flowers with stamen and pistil in the same bunch. annual A plant that completes its growth cycle in one year. |
Amarjit S. Basra
See book keywords and concepts |  Thus I decided to undergo an abortion. I took gbutunga. You ask, how I got to know about this plant? In the Lyceum Ndolomo the girls always discuss about chaps, about sexuality, about abortions, about the way how the boys like it. I got this information from my friends. One of them recalled gbutunga as abortifacient. Many of us were interested. We asked her questions about its use. Because we girls are often victims of an unwanted pregnancy and the boys escape from their responsibility. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | OVERDOSAGE
Very large quantities of rosemary leaves (more likely, only of rosemary oil), have been misused for the purpose of abortion, and are said to lead to deep coma, spasm, vomiting, gastroenteritis, uterine bleeding, kidney irritation, and in severe cases, accompanied by pulmonary edema, to death in humans. No documented cases have come to light.
DOSAGE
Mode of Administration: Ground drug is used for infusions. Powdered dmg, dry extract and other galenic preparations are available for internal and external use. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
See book keywords and concepts | | Various women's issues—birth control, abortion, weight control, breast size, and particularly menstruation and menopause—have come under the "clinical gaze," to borrow Michel Foucault's apt phrase, to be treated with pill or surgery. Birthing is medicalized from conception to delivery. |
Joseph E. Mario
See book keywords and concepts |  Vitamin E is essential for healthy reproductive system; for male potency against sterility, prostate infection; female fertility, may cause a short-term rise in the sex drive; for female disorganized metabolism, menstrual disorders, menstrual cramps, sore nipples, atrophic senile vagina, breast cysts (with 600 units Vitamin E for six weeks), fibrocystic breast disease, cystic fibrosis; habitual abortion, recovery from abortion; miscarriages, premature birth from hemolytic anemia, lactation, still births, and menopause (75 to 150 units Vitamin E), headaches and hot flashes, prolongs maturity. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts | | Cases of death have been described following misuse of the volatile oil to induce abortion. dosage
See: Precautions and Adverse Reactions.
Mode of Administration: Internally as a ground drug, an extract and a tea. The oil is applied topically.
Daily Dosage: The average daily internal dose of the dried drug is 1 to 4 g, taken 3 times daily. Pennyroyal is prepared as an infusion. Drink one cupful at a time during the course of the day. Extract: 1 to 4 mL, 3 times daily. literature
Frohne D, Pfander HJ, Giftpflanzen - Ein Handbuch fur Apotheker, Toxikologen und Biologen, 4. Aufl., Wiss. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Some other uses are as antitussives (cough remedies), sneezing-powder for chronic rhinitis, for inflammation of the eye, for pneumonia, angina pectoris, migraines, liver disease and jaundice, for dehydration, as an emmenagogue (menstrual stimulant) and for artificial abortion.
Efficacy of the listed indications has not been adequately proven.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
Older scientific literature contains reports of signs of poisoning (burning of the tongue, gastroenteritis, diarrhea, erysipeloid skin rashes, hemiparesis). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  I'm fairly certain that when lawmakers signed the Patriot Act, they weren't thinking of abortion rights protestors and animal rights activists, but laws have a way of expanding their scope far beyond their original intent. Thanks to the Patriot Act, the very act of sitting in a room with a friend and discussing the evils of the American government can get you labeled a terrorist engaged in a conspiracy (if anyone happens to be listening, of course). |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | It was not until the nineteenth century that Indian hemp was described as having a euphoric effect; it was used for insomnia, neuralgia, painful rheumatism, painful gastrointestinal disorders, cholera, tetanus, epilepsy, strychnine poisoning, acute bronchitis, whooping cough, asthma, impending abortion and weak contractions. The extract was used as a sedative and mild soporific. | | Poisonings in earlier times were particularly seen in connection with its misuse for purposes of abortion.
OVERDOSAGE
Following gastrointestinal emptying (inducement of vomiting, gastric lavage with burgundy-colored potassium permanganate solution, sodium sulfate), and instillation of activated charcoal, the treatment of poisonings consists of treating spasms with diazepam (I.V.) and colic with atropine; electrolyte substitution and treating possible cases of acidosis with sodium bicarbonate infusions. Monitoring of kidney function is essential. | | Used in Chinese medicine for impotence, diarrhea, enuresis, rheumatic conditions, testicle hernia, menopause syndrome, amenorrhoea, abortion and to stabilize immunity.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
General: No health hazards or side effects are known in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages. The drug possesses a medium potential for sensitization. Sensitizations to cinnamaldehyde occur frequently.
Pregnancy: The drug is not to be administered in time of pregnancy. | | Glossary abortifacient A drug or chemical that induces abortion. achene A small 1-seeded fruit which has a pericarp attached to the seed at only one point. acuminate Pointed, or tapering to a slender point. adaptogen A preparation that acts to strengthen the body and increase resistance to disease. alterative Any drug used to favorably alter the course of an ailment and to restore health. To improve the excretion of wastes from the circulatory system. amarum Bitters. androgynous In botany, flowers with stamen and pistil in the same bunch. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
See book keywords and concepts | | Teratogenicity: Aloe latex contains anthraquinones that may stimulate uterine muscle activity, initiate premature labor, or possibly cause abortion when given orally. Mutagenic activity to lectins that are found in Aloe have been noted (Suzuki et al, 1979). A lectin found in whole Aloe arborescens leaves was shown to have mitogenic activity on lymphocytes (Suzuki et al, 1979). drug interactions
MODERATE RISK
Antidiabetic Agents: Increased risk of hypoglycemia. |
Stacy Malkan
See book keywords and concepts |  Significantly and largely due to the organizing efforts of African-American and Latina women, the march focused not just on abortion rights, but on the broader theme of women's health, including access to health care, contraception, sex education and global family planning.
Lisa Archer, the new grassroots organizer for the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, thought the women's march was the perfect place to debut the campaign's message of toxic-free products and toxic-free bodies. The work was closer to her heart than most people knew. |
Mark Sircus
See book keywords and concepts |  Severe or mild deficiencies affect the site of fetal implantation and, if they are prolonged, lead to abortion in the first instance and pathological disorders in the latter.4
Some 43% of women suffer with sexual dysfunction, compared to 31% of men, according to University of Chicago researcher Dr. Edward Laumann.5
Some $2 to $3 billion will be spent within the next ten years on products aimed at improving the sex lives of these women. Female sexual dysfunction is characterized by a lack of desire, arousal and orgasm. |
David Winston, RH(AHG), and Steven Maimes
See book keywords and concepts |  In the Sind region, it is believed to cause abortion, and the Rajputs use the root for lumbago, arthritis, and dyspepsia (digestive upset). The fresh root has been used as a poultice for decubitus ulcers (bedsores), boils, and glandular swellings. The leaves are used topically to heal boils or sores and internally as an anthelmintic (destroys intestinal worms) and to treat alcoholism.
Ashwagandha frequently is used in ayurvedic formulas along with ghee (clarified butter) and honey for low sperm count and sexual debility in men. |
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