Really.

Herbal abortions occur when someone takes something that is toxic enough to their system to terminate a pregnancy. The thing is, whatever the person uses can also be toxic enough to cause severe illness and death. Most of us here at ST do not suggest nor do we endorse herbal abortions.

Inducing miscarriage with alcohol is also extremely dangerous and can lead to alcohol poisoning, severe liver damage, stomach damage, and can also lead to death. Infertility, however, is generally not viewed as a side-effect of massive alcohol consumption. Has your friend been analyzed by a physician and diagnosed with infertility?

The options that are safe and open to you if you are sexually active include birth control (such as The Pill, Lunelle, Ortho-Evra, etc, and barrier methods such as condoms), medical abortion, and the morning after pill if taken 72 hours after unprotected intercourse or intercourse with condom failure.

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ive heard tell of an "herbal abortion"

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Check out these threads to find out exactly why trying this is a bad, bad idea:

http://www.scarleteen.com/forum/Forum6/HTML/004152.html
http://www.scarleteen.com/forum/Forum6/HTML/004301.html
http://www.scarleteen.com/forum/Forum6/HTML/005731.html

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or some type of pill u can take to induce miscarriage...

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You may be thinking of the "abortion pill", RU-486, here. Check out this thread for more info:

http://www.scarleteen.com/forum/Forum8/HTML/000079.html

But it's still something that needs to be prescribed and supervised by a doctor. And I'm not sure whether it's currently available in the US or not (US advos, help me out here? )

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im just looking at options because i have been sexually active for a few months now and am always a bit worried about the "what if.."

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In that case, your best option is to do your utmost to avoid the problem in the first place by combining two methods of contraception (e.g. condoms and the pill).

And in the unlikely event of both forms of contraception failing and you becoming pregnant - if you choose to have an abortion, then have a safe, legal, medical one.

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yeah and my friend induced a miscarriage by drinking a lot of alchohol..

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Another very bad idea, I'm afraid. As with other alleged methods for inducing a miscarriage, if it works at all it does so by poisoning your body so massively that it can't support a fetus. Not surprisingly, this can indeed cause you serious bodily harm.

And in fact, as far as I know drinking a lot of alcohol is more likely to result not in a miscarriage but a baby born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (which causes lifelong disablities).

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