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PubMed1984

Double-blind placebo-controlled trial of baclofen, alone and in combination, in patients undergoing voluntary abortion.

This study evaluated the analgesic efficacy of baclofen in relation to specific pain stimuli in 83 women (27 nulliparas and 56 multiparas) undergoing voluntary abortion (clamping of the cervix and dilatation and curettage). The patient population was divided into five treatment groups as follows: group 1, placebo; group 2, baclofen, 0.3 mg/kg, administered intravenously (IV); group 3, baclofen, 0.6 mg/kg IV; group 4, baclofen, 0.3 mg/kg IV, and fentanyl, 1.5 mg IV; and group 5, baclofen, 0.3 mg/kg IV, and diazepam, 5 mg given orally and 5 mg IV. In each case the surgical intervention was started using analgesia only. When the first sensation of pain was recorded, a paracervical anesthetic block was performed to provide pain relief for completion of the operation. The results showed that baclofen had significantly better analgesic properties than did placebo, with no important side effects. Its analgesic action seemed to be dose-dependent, since better results were obtained with the higher dose. The analgesic effect was slightly potentiated when baclofen was combined with fentanyl, but not when it was combined with diazepam. Factors independent of the pain stimuli and drugs used--the most important being parity--influenced the results.

Abortion, Induced↗
PubMed1983

The new biology and the question of personhood: implications for abortion.

Opposition to abortion is based in part on the assumption that personhood is achieved at or shortly after fertilization of the egg. This interpretation of personhood arises from a contemporary application of the ancient doctrine of preformationism, a doctrine which holds that there is a preformed individual, in an ontological sense, within the developing entity. The assumption that the fertilized egg is unique in its capacity to develop into a human being is at least in part responsible for the opinions of those opposed to abortion. Yet, the uniqueness of the zygote in its capacity to develop into an adult organism is qualified by the discovery that development may be possible in a number of other ways. Consideration of the phenomena of cloning, parthenogenesis and chimerism can relieve moral ambiguity about abortion and may reduce opposition to that practice.

Abortion, Legal↗