“I’m horrified. They’re going to kill people,” says Mary Jane Minkin, MD, a gynecologist and clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale University School of Medicine. Minkin had been hearing whispers about people promoting herbal abortifacients on TikTok, as well as home vacuum aspirations, which can potentially result in sepsis or death. “It’s terrifying because 49 years ago, that’s how women died,” she says.
pulegone, which gets metabolized in the body and forms toxins that can cause liver necrosis, says Josh Trebach, emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist in Iowa City. Side effects of ingestion can include vomiting and abdominal pain, as well as seizures, coma, liver failure, and death. Blue cohosh, another plant that has been suggested as an abortifacient on TikTok, also contains
On TikTok, there is a plethora of information about these potentially dangerous herbal abortifacients. The hashtag #pennyroyaltea has about 1.1 million views, and while some of the videos are simply references to the Nirvana song “Pennyroyal Tea,” one of the top results is a video advocating for its use as an abortifiacient. That video, from someone claiming to be a nurse at Planned Parenthood, is set to “Do You Hear the People Sing?” and has more than 4,500 views.
“Fifty years ago we didn’t have TikTok. There was some filtration in information,” she says. “But now anyone can publish anything anywhere and it gets out to billions of people. It just terrifies me.
Viral is never news
The latest TikTok ad campaigns advertise the platform as a good place to learn new information as well. Pretty dangerous imo.
The religious zealots that bought a Supreme Court adore their misogyny. And racism. And homophobia. And xenophobia. These Republican donors are callously indifferent to a frying planet, millions dead in a pandemic, famine, war, and political dysfunction. You know,...Tax cuts.
How about we just let Darwinism play out here.
Hate yourself much? That's responsible action, make a TikTok video.
You mean the Chinese spying app that should’ve already been banned by apple AppleNews
tiktok_us needs to be erased from the World
That didn't take long.
Or just practice safe sex like a normal person. Then when ready to have a child stop...Common sense
Just as horrifying aa everything else that’s happening nowadays thesocietywearebuilding
USA... WELCOME TO THE THIRD WORLD.
ProLifeMyAss
Thanks to the Supreme Court...
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Source: thedailybeast - 🏆 307. / 63 Read more »
Source: SheKnows - 🏆 558. / 51 Read more »
Source: dallas_observer - 🏆 453. / 53 Read more »
Source: AKNewsNow - 🏆 460. / 53 Read more »
Source: Allure_magazine - 🏆 473. / 51 Read more »
Source: wsfa12news - 🏆 338. / 59 Read more »