Mr. Walker goes on to say that "The audit of nearly 7000 abortions performed in South Australia in 2009 and last year found that 3.3 per cent of women who used mifepristone in the first trimester of pregnancy - when most elective terminations occur - later turned up at hospital emergency departments, against 2.2 per cent who had undergone surgery".
This equates to 231 women seeking hospital treatment after botched RU486 abortions and 154 women after surgical abortions in 2009-2010, in South Australia alone - and that is only during the first trimester.
The Australian reports that "the rate of hospital admission jumped to 5.7 per cent for recipients of early "medical" abortions - using drugs - compared with 0.4 per cent for surgical patients re-admitted for post-operative treatment". This equates to 399 women admitted to hospital after using the abortion drug RU486 and 4 after surgical abortions - again in 2009-2010 and in S.A alone.
The article fails to describe the treatments, injuries sustained or outcomes (physical and/or emotional) for these women post treatment/admission to hospital.
Dr Mulligan, co author of a study published by the journal 'Australian Family Physician', pointed out that the number of complications "was so small it could be regarded as statistically insignificant". He then said that the "complications from second-trimester medical (RU486) abortions - often done after the detection of fetal abnormality - happened in up to 33 per cent of the cases reviewed" - hardly "insignificant"!!
Margaret Tighe of Right to Life Australia said "We always said that taking RU486 would have a very deleterious effect on women's health ... taking a pill seems very easy, but what we are seeing here is there can be quite a lot of complications." Cherish Life (Queensland) President, Teresa Martin, said "the study blows out of the water arguments advanced by mifepristone pioneer Caroline de Costa for wider availability of the drug".
The Australian defines Australian protocols on the administration of the RU486 pill:
" 200mg tablet of mifepristone to be administered by an authorised prescriber in a hospital or medical clinic. The process is completed, within 48 hours, with another drug called misoprostol, causing the woman to miscarry, usually at home.
Differences in the law on abortion vary by state and this plays out in the way women are treated. In SA, almost all abortions are performed in public hospitals and both mifepristone and misoprostol are administered in them.
Queensland, however, maintains a ban on elective abortion in its public health system - meaning most terminations are done at a handful of medical clinics.
While the state has twice SA's population, there are only 15 authorised prescribers of mifepristone in Queensland, one more than in SA. NSW and Victoria have 30 each and the ACT six"
While pro abortion advocates maintain that abortion is safe, the statistics in S.A reveal that abortion continues to hurt women. Once again there is no mention of those most affected by both medical and surgical abortion, the babies. Medical (RU496) abortions starve the embryo and induces (often violent) labour to dispel the baby and placenta.
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