Dr. Christina Francis, MD

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617 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 20 Feb

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What actually happens inside the body when someone takes an abortion pill?

Great question, because I think it's something that a lot of people actually don't understand.

They hear the rhetoric out there that this is safer than Tylenol, you know, that women can just do this from home.

It's no big deal.

But it's really important to understand what happened.

So it's a two-drug regimen, actually, the first one.

is called mifepristone.

This drug was developed as a drug that blocks the action of a key hormone in early pregnancy called progesterone.

So this, many women that listen to this podcast will probably know about progesterone in and out of pregnancy.

Progesterone does exactly what it sounds like.

It's progestation.

So it promotes gestation or pregnancy.

So it's a very crucial hormone as that baby is developing very early in pregnancy that leads to good connections between mom

and baby so that blood, oxygen, nutrients can flow freely between mom and baby.

Mifepristone binds to the receptor meant for progesterone and it blocks the action of progesterone.

So I even tell people to think about it like a key that you can insert into a lock, but it doesn't turn anything.

It doesn't do anything.

So it's blocking that lock.

So it's not letting progesterone have the action that it's meant to have because

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