{"id":55,"date":"2012-06-23T11:49:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T06:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/?p=55"},"modified":"2013-03-13T08:45:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T03:15:45","slug":"crackdown-on-abortion-pills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/crackdown-on-abortion-pills\/","title":{"rendered":"Crackdown on Abortion Pills: Tweet us your thoughts!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the crackdown on sex-selective tools in India, put abortion pills in the news. Not everyone has heard of these pills. Very often, they are confused with the morning-after-pills, which are a form of emergency contraception. Abortion pills, on the other hand, are for women, who are already pregnant and are looking for an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Next week, we\u2019ll be discussing these pills, and the consequences of the crackdown on their sales. In the meantime, here\u2019s an interesting clip on abortion pills being sold without a prescription.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NxxO7C1BvSg\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Taking these pills off the market, or tightening the regulations will not help fight sex-selection, but only drive these families to use unsafe methods.\u00a0(Read more on how these pills should be used appropriately\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.asap-asia.org\/information.html\">on our website<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Tweet us this weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/asapasia\">@asapasia<\/a> with your opinions on how to fight sex-selection without making medical procedures\/pills unavailable to those who might be in need of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, the crackdown on sex-selective tools in India, put abortion pills in the news. Not everyone has heard of these pills. Very often, they are confused with the morning-after-pills, which are a form of emergency contraception. Abortion pills, on the other hand, are for women, who are already pregnant and are looking for an abortion.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[270,287],"tags":[31,30,9,18],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-separating-safe-abortion-from-sex-selection","tag-abortion-pills-2","tag-medical-abortions","tag-pro-choice","tag-sex-selection"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/blog-featured-image-logo.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3O7nG-T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asap-asia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}