Are chemical abortions impacting the water supply？
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In this week's interview, we are joined by Richard Durr, the Executive Director of Pro-Life Alberta, a political party dedicated to educating Albertans on the horrors of chemical abortions. In this episode, we discuss the dangers of chemical abortion and how they differ from surgical abortions.
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hey everyone welcome back to the alberta roundup i'm your host rachel emanuel for today's interview
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we are joined by richard durr durr is the executive director of pro-life alberta which
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is a political party dedicated to educating albertans on the horrors of albor of abortion
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richard thanks so much for joining us today hey thanks so much for having me so you drew my
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attention to an interesting story this week it seems that there is a new abortion clinic here in
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calgary it's called the alberta medical abortion clinic that's offering chemical abortions and this
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is something that you were very concerned about you said this is something that damages women
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more so than regular abortions can you explain what the difference is between a chemical abortion and
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a typical abortion procedure and why it's so dangerous for women sure so when i first heard
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about the this facility it made me think of back alley abortions in the way that we're moving the
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back alley abortion to the bathroom these things are done in secret they're high risk they're often
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done without proper medical attention and the potential for dangers and the risks of complications
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abuse and misuse are very high when it comes to chemical abortion so for example when it comes to
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chemical abortions there's a they can only be done in early first trimester pregnancies so what's
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important then is determining correctly the gestational age of of the pre-born child and there's a risk
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then of if you're only relying on a woman's best guess or estimate as to how far along she is you can
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increase then the risks to her of of complications so some of the symptoms as well between an ectopic
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pregnancy and those resulting from chemical abortions are they're the same so there's higher rates of
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complications than there are in surgical abortions and these complications can lead to the death of both
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the mother and her baby wow yeah i saw on a site that i was reading about earlier pregnancy help news
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it said that the there's 10 times the death rate for women with chemical abortions and with surgical
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abortions are you familiar with those statistics as well i i i've seen various uh statistics from
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different sources i know it depends as well as to um there's even complications increased complications
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compared to surgical abortions um even when it's taken within the prescribed and ideal so to speak
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period of time uh when chemical abortions are supposed to be taken even then there's higher risk
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of of complications than there are with surgical abortions but of course there's also the increased
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risk that the chemical abortion will be administered uh at an inopportune time or beyond
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uh the first few weeks of uh of pregnancy uh when it's not supposed to be taken um and that then of
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course increases the risk of complications still further so so like i said i mean it reminds me of
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makes me think of back alley abortions uh moving from the back alley to the bathroom where we have high
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risk abortions done in secret without proper medical attention uh and and women um you know we should be
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safeguarding women's health and well-being and we don't do that by allowing a free-for-all when it
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comes to the um prescription of chemical abortion pills something else that i read online earlier and
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it seemed almost too horrible to be true was that in the cases of chemical abortions there's instances
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where women can then pass their baby and there's been some instances where the baby has been passed and
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the baby is still alive so women are typically doing this at home in their own washroom
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and so they're seeing you know their their little baby in the toilet there and in some cases that
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baby can still be alive is this something that can happen with chemical abortions uh um yes it could
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absolutely if it's uh again uh without um women deserve the ongoing care of a doctor when taking high
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risk drugs so without that ongoing care of the doctor there's risks for all sorts of complications
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that these things will be improperly administered that will be administered in an incorrect order
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or any number of things besides one of the other things that is i guess a concern when we're looking
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at chemical abortions that are being administered at home is you know these women are maybe speaking
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with the doctor over something like zoom they're not actually doing the in-person visits how likely is
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this something that will affect vulnerable women or even women that are in situations where they're being
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trafficked i think that's an excellent insight there is a heightened risk of exploitation to vulnerable
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women and a likelihood then of of prolonging the trafficking of women without detection
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there should be a requirement in abortionists to uh to screen for possible trafficking exploitation
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and coercion and when it comes to telemedicine if anything it lends itself towards the abuse
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and misuse of uh of abortion in such a way that um that those women who are being exploited will
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continue to be exploited uh because there's no no avenue in which that exploitation can be detected
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air chemical abortions very common in alberta i know that you guys at pro-life alberta drew attention
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to this clinic especially but is it something that we've seen in the province so far or is this really
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a rarity that this has been able to open i think it is increasing in part because of the so to speak
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convenience of it um but like i said it reminds me or makes me think of the back alley abortion or moving
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the abortions from the back alley to the bathroom a high risk done in secret and without proper medical
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attention uh that uh that puts a woman's lives at risk and do we know what the impact could be on the
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water supply as well obviously when we're looking at this there's these little babies that will become
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biohazard waste in the water and then the chemicals of the drug itself are these things that can be you
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know easily filtered out or is this damaging the water supply increasingly over time i'm and and that's
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the thing i mean i don't know as to uh and i don't think we do know as to that but i do think it's
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um you know with with the concerns that we have in the environment and what we're putting into our
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water supply if we're having thousands upon thousands of chemical abortions and these uh the
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products of conception which is to say that the the aborted child is just flushed down the toilet um
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what's going to happen of that like it doesn't that that will inevitably end up in our water supply
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in some way so these are things that we need to look at and it's a reason why chemical abortions
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should be removed from uh telemedicine platforms and why we should make adverse reporting mandatory
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to help track and address uh complications surrounding uh abortions and surrounding chemical
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abortions especially right it is quite shocking to think of i mean we obviously take so much care and
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we show a lot of respect to human bodies when someone passes and all the burial proceedings that
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go along with that and in this case sure the water supply and the damage that can be done there
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and the impact it will have on people is huge but also just the disrespect and the dishonor shown to
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these little babies as they're flushed down the toilet it's honestly just too sickening to really
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comprehend i'm really glad that you guys have raised attention to this issue before i let you go you
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know people are going to be wondering what they can do about this what's your call to action on this matter
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well on this i would encourage uh i would encourage people to reach out to their mla and reach out to
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our ucp health minister adriana lagrange to let her know that chemical abortions are not worth the risk
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that woman and their babies deserve better than abortion and that woman deserve the ongoing care
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of a doctor when taking high risk drugs and so therefore we should be removing chemical abortions
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from telemedicine platforms to safeguards woman's health and well-being richard thank you so much the
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rest of my audience we will be back on saturday with our regular coverage i hope that you enjoyed
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this video if you have any additional comments for richard just put them in the comment section below
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and we'll get back to you on those i hope that you guys have a great rest of your week i'll see