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to go to prison over how horrible this Cosmopolitan magazine article actually is. Your Complete Guide to Misoprostol Only Abortions is the latest journalistic masterpiece from the leading women's magazine on the planet, in which they discuss in detail specific instructions for how to still abort your baby even if the abortion pill happens to get better banned in America. And I want to go through this together with you because the sheer amount of medical misinformation present in this article is jaw dropping and is actually life threatening for millions of women who are going to read this article thinking that it's grounded in scientific truth. But it's also just the latest example of how desperate our culture is to gaslight and lie to women about everything that's supposedly female empowerment but is actually just a cult of of death and nothing more. If you're not super familiar with the abortion pill, you may not know that when we talk about the abortion pill, what we're really talking about is actually two separate pharmaceutical medications. And this is where things get kind of interesting. The first drug is called mifepristone and the second is called misoprostol. And that's what this Cosmo article is about. We'll get to that in a second. But mifepristone is probably what you think of when you're constantly seeing stuff in news headlines and trending on social media right now about the abortion pill potentially getting banned or the different regulatory questions around it or being challenged in the Supreme Court. That's the one that historically you were supposed to take inside of an abortion provider's office. And up until really recently in American history, the people working in an abortion clinic would actually force you to swallow that pill in their clinic before they sent you home with a baggie containing the next drug, which is called misoprostol, which you're supposed to take like 24 to 48 hours later. The way that that first drug works, mifepristone, is pretty jarring and terrible. It specifically cuts off nutrients to your baby through the placenta and the umbilical cord so that your baby starves and is devoid of all nutrients from its mom and is intentionally killed. They die in utero. And then that second drug, misoprostol, is simply what dilates your cervix and induces labor so that you can give birth to your baby and deliver that baby once it's already been killed. Mifepristone, by the way, is one of the most dangerous pharmaceutical drugs on the market. It has an 11% rate of adverse events for people who take it, including stuff like hemorrhaging, bleeding out on your bathroom floor, because you are instructed to go home and sit over the toilet or in the bathtub after you have taken these pills and immense bleeding starts and is poisoning our water. But that's a whole different story for another time. So if the legality of mifepristone is in question, which it is, the Supreme Court of the United States is currently reviewing that, and I'm sure that the FDA will be taking a deeper look into the safety of this drug on the market. Cosmo is trying then to gaslight its readers and women everywhere into skipping the first pill of the two abortion pills and just taking the second one, misa Prostol, hence the headline of this article. But if you understand like 2% of anything that I just said, you should be stopping dead in your tracks. Because a pretty key component to an abortion, the killing of your otherwise alive, thriving, growing baby, is totally removed in what they're calling a misoprostol only abortion. What this actually means is just labor is inducing labor of your alive baby to give birth to them at home, in your bathroom, prematurely, naturally, and then what? How many weeks are we allowing for something like this to happen? Is your baby viable outside the womb? When your baby is born alive, no matter where they are at in their gestational development, how do you abort the baby afterwards? Questions? I don't even have the emotional capacity as a mom to think about. But what they're alluding to here, they open the article by talking about mifepristone and specifically how that first drug of the abortion pill is under intense legal scrutiny right now. Largely because under the the Biden administration a new rule was introduced where you could receive mifepristone through the mail via telehealth services, whereas previously you had to get that prescription in person from a healthcare provider, from a doctor. Kind of important, one would think, if this is a drug that ultimately dramatically changes your body, to confirm that you're pregnant to begin with, to confirm that you don't have an ectopic pregnancy, which the abortion pill does not effectively treat, to confirm the gestational development of your baby, so that you're not attempting to do a chemical abortion on a 30 week old baby. But because of COVID the Biden administration made it possible to receive abortion pills through the mail with zero physician oversight. Essentially, as you may remember from our episode last Friday on the show, we spoke with a physician who said that she posed as a 13 year old girl online who was on blood thinners and a history of all kinds of cardiac diseases. All of the reasons why you should never be prescribed these pills in the first place. And she was immediately approved by a doctor to receive them through the mail and they showed up at her house a few days later. This is happening for hundreds of thousands of abortions every single year in our country. Upwards of 70% of the 1.2 million abortions that happened last year happened with an abortion pill largely coming through the mail now, and Cosmo is not so happy about that. So they're trying now to normalize the idea of an abortion with just the second set of pills by interviewing health care experts to push this particular agenda. They say this, in fact, in lots of other places like Argentina and Nigeria, people have long used just misoprostol to end their pregnancies. In countries where mifepristone is not available or abortion is severely restricted, it is not uncommon to just use misoprostol on its own up until the 24th week of pregnancy, said this Dr. OB GYN, who they talked to in D.C. and the president and CEO of Physicians for Reproductive Health. Sorry, what? Pause. Rewind. Read again. It is common. No, it's not. To use this drug for an abortion purpose. No, it's not for babies up through the 24th week of pregnancy. In case you didn't know this, babies are surviving in the NICU at the age of viability from like 21 weeks. Right now, a 24 week old baby can survive outside the womb. A 24 week old baby cannot remotely be reduced to the idea of a clump of cells. No baby can, but particularly this baby with all of its organ systems fully formed, who will cry out for mama when they are born. And a woman attempting to induce labor artificially prematurely during the 24th week of pregnancy puts her life in risk by doing so in her own home. 24 weeks. That is barbaric. Honest to God, I have no idea how the people that wrote this article sleep at night. I couldn't possibly crawl into bed thinking about this after the last few days even just reading it. But as I have crawled into bed as of late. As a mom with a whole lot of sleepless nights, I've become convinced that one of the biggest signs of adulthood is knowing how much you suddenly care about your sleep. When you are younger, you can survive on like four hours of sleep and iced coffee and pure delusion and a dream. And then one day you hit your late 20s or early 30s and you realize that a bad night of sleep can really ruin your entire personality for the next 48 hours. And for women especially, there's always something interrupting our sleep. 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My husband and I both less waking up during the night and honestly just feeling a lot more rested in the morning instead of dragging myself through the workday and doing everything I can to make it to bed the next night. And Helix makes the process so easy too. They ship the mattress right to your front door for free and you even get a 120 night sleep trial with a limited lifetime warranty so there's no pressure if you want to test it out first. There is a reason that Helix has become such a longtime favorite and one of the most awarded mattress brands out there. You guys can check it out by heading to helixsleep.com Isabel for 27% off site wide. Again, that's helixsleep.com Isabel then in the article they walk you through what a medication abortion even is, walking you through the difference between the two pills and why people are upset about mifepristone before doubling down on the role of misoprostol in the process. Specifically so can I use abortion pills even without mifepristone? Yes, because misoprostol can end an unwanted pregnancy on its own in bold letters. Well, what are we talking about when we talk about misoprostol? Let's remind ourselves it's a pharmaceutical drug that dilates your cervix to induce labor. It's used, by the way, not just in the abortion pill regiment, but in inducing labor for moms who need to give birth early for whatever reason, in helping to ripen and dilate a cervix during an induction procedure at the end of your pregnancy so that your baby can safely come into the world. If this is used to birth your baby in clinical settings, sure it ends a pregnancy. But where do people think your baby goes? I actually think I'm starting to realize so many people have never thought about what happens to a baby during an abortion. Honestly, because your baby isn't like like Thanos snapped dust in the wind into an ethereal ecosystem you can't even wrap your head around. Your baby's body is not absorbed by your body because you happened to swallow a pill. You have to give birth to your baby in an abortion procedure. And tragically, most of the time babies are dead before you are able to deliver them. But you will see your baby's body with misoprostol ending an unwanted pregnancy in probably the most barbaric, horrible, inhumane way possible when you meet them face to face for the first time. Cosmo has an answer for that, by the way, of where is the baby in all of this? They just straight up lied to you. They ask this what does misoprostol do to the uterus? Your uterus is shedding a thick lining, so you should expect heavy bleeding with some clots for about 24 hours, says Dr. Goldberg. That's a period. Actually, that's what your body normally does every 28 day cycle. That's not birth. There is no mention there placenta, which you still have to deliver. No mention of your amniotic sac and the fact that your water will Break. No mention of your baby and your baby being delivered into the world. Just the lining of your uterus, which they try to explain away. Don't expect to see the embryo itself pass, especially if the abortion happens early in the pregnancy because it is mixed in with blood and clots. Oh God, explains Dr. Goldberg. If the abortion happens around 11 or 12 weeks, aka toward the end of the first trimester, there is a chance you may see a small embryo. You know, this article is just completely saturated with croc science and complete bull when they're calling your baby an embryo in an attempt to dehumanize them. Which by the way, your baby is no longer an embryo after the eighth week of pregnancy. And most women don't even know that they are pregnant until six to eight weeks of pregnancy. At that point we call the baby in its developmental stage a fetus, which is also often used as a dehumanizing tactic. But both are just different developmental stages to explain where a baby is at in its growth process. The same way we would use infant or toddler or teenager or adult. So gotta love the attempt to just completely dehumanize your baby. But this is also just an abject lie. The Washington Post has run stories on this in the past of women who took the abortion pill at home exactly as they were instructed to because they were prescribed it via Plan Parenthood or other abortion clinics and they never once were told that they were going to see their baby, that they were delivering a baby, that they were in labor. Never once did anyone tell them that until they held their baby. Sorry, I'm a mom. Until they held their baby in the palm of their hand and watched their heartbeat or had to flush their baby down the toilet or down the bathroom drain because that's exactly what they were instructed to do by the doctor trying to administer life saving health care. There is physically no comparable emotional trauma to what this actually looks like. And Cosmopolitan magazine poster child of women's empowerment straight up lies to you telling you you won't even see a baby. And it's not even really a baby, it's just the lining of your uterine wall. Your baby will be mixed in with blood and clots. You won't even see it. No matter where you are at in the first trimester of pregnancy, your baby is not some like microscopic, naked, invisible to the human eye, clump of cells that you can only look at via a micro baby at virtually every stage of fetal development is a visible, recognizable human being. And nothing solidified that more for me than meeting my daughter on an ultrasound for the very, very first time at around 10 weeks of my first pregnancy, getting to see her tiny little hand wave at me through the screen and counting all of the bones in her fingers and toes, watching her dance around 10 weeks in my womb. She was a beautiful, unique human being, not an abstract concept of pregnancy tissue, but worthy of dignity and respect and life. As Cosmo gaslights all of the Cosmo girlies and is trying to get them to kill their children, they give very specific instructions in this article about how you should take misoprostol to put it under your tongue, to put it inside your cheek, to put it in your vagina as they often do in hospital inductions where misoprostol helps ripen your cervix and dilate you into labor, all for the purpose of of eventually telling you this. Okay, but is a misoprostol abortion safe? Many studies have shown that misoprostol only abortions are very safe even when they are self managed AKA without the help of a medical professional. Okay, first of all, a misoprostol only abortion again is not an abortion in that you are not first killing your child, which you do with mifepristone in the abortion pill, chemical abortion, or you do through a surgical abortion first you kill the baby before you deliver the baby baby in a very barbaric way of inserting a needle about this long into mom's tummy with a medication called digoxin which initiates a heart attack in your baby's body so that they are deceased by the time you go in and remove them from the mother's uterus. But a misoprostol only abortion is literally just induction to birth. So you are instructing millions of women to give live birth to their living baby in their bathroom and then what? And then what? Flush their baby down the toilet? Suffocate them? Bury them in the backyard alive? Our society has become truly, truly barbaric. If we are willing to normalize this as journalism, or even worse as some level of women's empowerment or life saving health care, it could not be the furthest thing from life saving health care. And the sheer number of women who are going to follow this advice thinking that it came from a health care professional and then have no idea what to do when they meet their baby after they give birth to them is devastating to think about. Not that Cosmopolitan magazine is the most relevant publication on the planet anymore. They don't hold a candle in terms of influence to the likes of like the Alex Coopers of the world, which we'll talk about another time. But please share this with someone that you know so that they understand this is the most blatant, obvious medical misinformation out there on the planet, particularly for women and women's health. And even though you perceive that it may be be unpopular, don't stop speaking up about the horrors of the abortion industry. This is a racist eugenicist movement that is ultimately attempting to destroy women's ability to even have children in the first place. It's why Planned Parenthood is now the number two provider of puberty blockers and cross sex hormones for teenagers in America today. With no history of gender dysphoria. I guess they figure if they can render you infertile before they ever have to sell you an abortion, that's probably a lot easier in the long run. Run. This is the single greatest human rights crisis of our time, impacting our children certainly, but also women everywhere, and has taken from us Last year alone 1.2 million innocent children and robbed the world of one third of my generation who is not here today simply because of abortion. We love to throw the word genocide around in our culture today, but this, by the numbers, is the largest genocide the world has ever seen. Will you allow this type of gaslighting and these lies to replace the truth? Or will you have the courage to scream the real truth from the rooftops for those who don't have a voice themselves?