# Missouri suggests women guilty of ectopic pregnancy must die

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**Created:** [March 22, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-suggests-women-guilty-of-ectopic-pregnancy-must-die/961457 "2022-03-22T01:36:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-suggests-women-guilty-of-ectopic-pregnancy-must-die/961457/90 "2022-03-22T23:20:16Z")

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> [@puzzlegal](#):
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> My DIL took drugs to terminate her ectopic pregnancy.

Was that prescribed by a doctor? This site say ectopic pregnancy is a contraindication for the abortion pill:

“…Absolute contraindications include the following: the presence of an **ectopic** pregnancy, as MIFE/MISO [mifepristone/misoprostol] **will not work** and surgery is more appropriate”

> **[Medical abortion: A practice tool for pharmacists](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6512190/)**

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