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Unexpected Pregnancy Support: How to Be There for a Friend

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When a friend comes to you with news of an unexpected pregnancy, one of the best gifts you can offer is real unexpected pregnancy support. You might not know what to say or do, but a little care goes a long way. Here are five real ways to offer unexpected pregnancy support that truly make a difference.

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Abortion Pill Reversal: Brittany’s Story

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Pregnancy can bring about many emotions; sometimes excitement and fear can be conflated when a woman is left without ample support to contend with these feelings, and result in a heartbreaking decision.

Brittany found herself in this situation, and feeling she had no other choice she took the first abortion pill. Later she became convinced that God interceded on behalf of her baby.

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Is ‘abortion pill reversal’ safe?

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The mechanism of abortion pill reversal is essentially the same mechanism often used to prevent miscarriage… the hormone progesterone. Only in this case, it’s aimed at reversing the effects of the abortion pill regimen. If a woman decides after taking the first of the two drugs in the regimen (mifepristone) that she doesn’t want to go through with the abortion process, she may be able to try abortion pill reversal.

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When does a fetus develop a heartbeat?

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Throughout a woman’s pregnancy, her baby undergoes many stages of development in the womb before being born, and among these milestones which indicate life is the fetal heartbeat. Through the use of ultrasounds, modern science can detect the waves of the baby’s heartbeat as early as three weeks after fertilization.

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Women unprepared for abortion pill pain

The abortion pill is often described as a “safe and effective way to end an early pregnancy,” at least according to Planned Parenthood. But is it? Recently, the Ethics and Public Policy Center released a study that analyzed insurance data codes for over 865,000 cases in which women took mifepristone (the abortion pill) and found that “serious adverse events” for the drug occurred at a rate approximately 22 times higher than the rate reported on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) label for the drug.

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STUDY: Women suffer serious effects after taking abortion pill

A new, first-of-its-kind study asserts that serious adverse events from mifepristone, the first drug in the abortion pill regimen, occur at a rate approximately 22 times higher than the rate reported on the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) label for the drug.

Is your birth control putting you at greater risk for an STD?

Birth control is touted as one of the greatest medical advancements ever made for women, allowing them to take charge of their sexuality without worrying about unplanned pregnancies — or so the narrative goes, anyway. But birth control has risks that go along with it, and those who use it should weigh those risks before taking it. Unfortunately, many women aren’t properly informed of the risks beforehand. For certain kinds of birth control, those risks include an increased susceptibility to getting a sexually transmitted disease (STD).