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We are living a great social tragedy, 25 million abortions are taking place every year according to data produced mainly after the Roe and Wide judicial litigation occurred in 1973, but with very well and clear written messages and sent to bmj by journalists Sally Howard and Geetanjali Krishna (1). I applaud and respect their text. The saddest and most depressing thing is that, because of ignorance, bad advice from unscrupulous business people, and taboo bad sex education, almost two million women die in those septic procedures possibly without understanding the procedure to which they were subjected.
In responses like this, see for instance (2, 3, 4), I have proposed that the best way for solving the abortion problem is by implementing in practice a solid, transparent, without biases and operative, sex educational and training system, taking advantage of the great benefits offered by the internet and new information and communication electronic technologies. Its main purpose is to end with the long lasting, eternal world political, religious, ethical, and cultural controversy on people's sexual personality, by teaching and advising all people on those issues related to sexuality, gender, genetics, pregnancy, family planning, contraception, miscarriage, abortion, and their real history and epidemiology.
It is very important for all people to know the history of family planning from organized and true sources of information, Hammurabi Code, Ebbers Papyrus, Bible, Vedas…highest impact scientific journals; from very ancient times in China, more than 4000 years before our era, to the present day, in all countries, around the world. That history is the cumulative and diverse action of individuals, of several procedures and radical changes in medical, legal, scientific, technologic, politic, and social dynamics. Anyone, from anywhere in the world, should know both the positive and negative things about procedures that have been introduced in practice throughout history as a strategy to prevent pregnancy, to break placental collagen, either by wild procedures or developed ones from scientific research. All people should know, no holds barred, different wild abortive procedures to which pregnant women were and are still subjected in different parts of civilized but poor countries; about the use of abortive medicinal plants, the use of potions or toxic dressings; how training is carried out in use of natural biological contraceptive methods, how doctors perform surgical, or chemical abortion and what are their short, medium and long-term effects; what resources are used in vacuum aspiration procedures; how is the normal female genital cycle and what’s its importance for implementing several kind of chemical contraceptive methods, which radically have changed social traditional life dynamics; what biological effects are produced to keep a woman's body oversaturated with only progesterone or with a progestogen and estradiol, or with their respective and powerful synthetic equivalents; it is important that we all know about the dynamics in a woman's body of post day, misoprostol and mifepristone or methotrexate.
We are living a very important social inflexion point in family planning history, which has ignited a permanent interesting world controversy. For moving on to a higher historical concavity of that concept we must make the problems more visible, less polarized and without taboos. We must understand them better and for this education without bias is indispensable.
1. Geetanjali Krishna and Sally Howard. Roe v Wade: How its scrapping will affect women worldwide. BMJ 2022; 378: o1844
2. Polo Ledesma Emilio. The New Abortion Culture. Part One. Before Voting is needed Good knowledge on Abortion and Contraception. https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o1970/rr-0 Published on August 9th 2022.
3. Polo Ledesma Emilio. Urgent - True Sexual Education is Needed. https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1122/rr Published on May 4th 2022.
4. Polo L. and Polo R. Re: Abortion. https://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.f7553/rr/682454 Published on January 17th 2014.
Competing interests:
No competing interests
15 August 2022
Emilio Polo Ledesma
Ph.D. in Biochemistry - Proteolytic Enzymes. Researcher and Teacher of Clinical Biochemistry at Medicine Program of Health`s Faculty
Researcher at Doctorate in Health Sciences. Area - Population Health, and CeSurCafe Research Center - Universidad Surcolombiana.
Calle 9 con Carrera 14 - Barrio Altico - Facultad Salud USCO - Neiva - Huila - Colombia S.A.
The New Abortion Culture. Part Two. Chilling Effect is produced by Ignorance, Taboo and Biased Sex Education.
Dear Editor:
We are living a great social tragedy, 25 million abortions are taking place every year according to data produced mainly after the Roe and Wide judicial litigation occurred in 1973, but with very well and clear written messages and sent to bmj by journalists Sally Howard and Geetanjali Krishna (1). I applaud and respect their text. The saddest and most depressing thing is that, because of ignorance, bad advice from unscrupulous business people, and taboo bad sex education, almost two million women die in those septic procedures possibly without understanding the procedure to which they were subjected.
In responses like this, see for instance (2, 3, 4), I have proposed that the best way for solving the abortion problem is by implementing in practice a solid, transparent, without biases and operative, sex educational and training system, taking advantage of the great benefits offered by the internet and new information and communication electronic technologies. Its main purpose is to end with the long lasting, eternal world political, religious, ethical, and cultural controversy on people's sexual personality, by teaching and advising all people on those issues related to sexuality, gender, genetics, pregnancy, family planning, contraception, miscarriage, abortion, and their real history and epidemiology.
It is very important for all people to know the history of family planning from organized and true sources of information, Hammurabi Code, Ebbers Papyrus, Bible, Vedas…highest impact scientific journals; from very ancient times in China, more than 4000 years before our era, to the present day, in all countries, around the world. That history is the cumulative and diverse action of individuals, of several procedures and radical changes in medical, legal, scientific, technologic, politic, and social dynamics. Anyone, from anywhere in the world, should know both the positive and negative things about procedures that have been introduced in practice throughout history as a strategy to prevent pregnancy, to break placental collagen, either by wild procedures or developed ones from scientific research. All people should know, no holds barred, different wild abortive procedures to which pregnant women were and are still subjected in different parts of civilized but poor countries; about the use of abortive medicinal plants, the use of potions or toxic dressings; how training is carried out in use of natural biological contraceptive methods, how doctors perform surgical, or chemical abortion and what are their short, medium and long-term effects; what resources are used in vacuum aspiration procedures; how is the normal female genital cycle and what’s its importance for implementing several kind of chemical contraceptive methods, which radically have changed social traditional life dynamics; what biological effects are produced to keep a woman's body oversaturated with only progesterone or with a progestogen and estradiol, or with their respective and powerful synthetic equivalents; it is important that we all know about the dynamics in a woman's body of post day, misoprostol and mifepristone or methotrexate.
We are living a very important social inflexion point in family planning history, which has ignited a permanent interesting world controversy. For moving on to a higher historical concavity of that concept we must make the problems more visible, less polarized and without taboos. We must understand them better and for this education without bias is indispensable.
1. Geetanjali Krishna and Sally Howard. Roe v Wade: How its scrapping will affect women worldwide. BMJ 2022; 378: o1844
2. Polo Ledesma Emilio. The New Abortion Culture. Part One. Before Voting is needed Good knowledge on Abortion and Contraception. https://www.bmj.com/content/378/bmj.o1970/rr-0 Published on August 9th 2022.
3. Polo Ledesma Emilio. Urgent - True Sexual Education is Needed. https://www.bmj.com/content/377/bmj.o1122/rr Published on May 4th 2022.
4. Polo L. and Polo R. Re: Abortion. https://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.f7553/rr/682454 Published on January 17th 2014.
Competing interests: No competing interests