How researchers test for traces of misoprostol and mifepristone — the two drugs used in medication abortions — in women who have experienced a miscarriage.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    In another study also published in Molecules, members from the same team used the technique to analyze two independent samples containing traces of misoprostol, the other drug commonly known to induce pregnancy.

    Isolated media reports show that Polish officials have increasingly taken to raiding the homes of women under suspicion of facilitating illegal abortions.

    In interviews with Human Rights Watch, doctors, lawyers and a woman who had a legal medication abortion described “sweeping and speculative investigations, and overbroad searches.”

    Since 2020, at least six women have died in Poland after doctors performed a medically necessary abortion either too late or not at all, citing fear of consequences or reasons of conscience, according to research by the European Parliament.

    It is an attack on fundamental and human rights and should be unthinkable in a liberal democracy in 2021," said Evelyn Regner, a Member of the European Parliament from the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

    The Wroclaw Medical University researchers have cited the above Lancet statement as the reasoning behind their search for traces of abortion pills in women’s bodies.


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      misoprostol, the other drug commonly known to induce pregnancy.

      Labor. It induces labor, not pregnancy lol. 🤦‍♂️