Teens Taking Cow Drugs for Abortions?

So far, the professionals in animal and human health and the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction are treating the reports of girls inducing their own abortions with prostaglandins - drugs commonly used by cow breeders to regulate animals' heat cycles - as rumors, because no cases have been officially confirmed by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

But Anna Anderson, the executive director of Care Net Pregnancy Center of Green County in Monroe, maintains that she has identified at least 10 girls ages 14 to 18 in a three-county area who admitted to taking some form of cow abortifacient in the past year. Anderson said the girls told her they took it because they found it to be a cheap and easy way to end their pregnancies without their parents finding out.

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Comment: This is so frightening--to think that young women are so desperate to end a pregnancy that they would risk their physical health by taking cow abortifacients (or even have access to these drugs)in order to avoid a pregnancy. Please pray for all women who are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy that they would not resort to these dangerous practices but would instead seek out help at pregnancy resource centers in their communities. We know that "fear" often drives choices and can lead people to make hasty and even dangerous decisions without thinking through the consequences.