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#Science time, nerds. 🤓👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

To understand if medical #abortion — aka chemical, at-home, self-managed abortions — are reversible, we need to know how they work; to know how medical abortion works, we need to understand a bit about how #pregnancy works.

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Citations at the end of the thread! All but 2 are free full access, all but 2 are journal articles (& 1 of those 2 is a textbook).

Progesterone (prog) is known as the “pregnancy hormone.” Until ~10 weeks post-fertilization, prog is produced by the woman’s corpus luteum...

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...(located in her ovary, a mass of cells formed after a follicle popped out an egg). After 10 weeks, the placenta (a shared/feto-maternal organ) actually takes over the production of prog.

Prog does a LOT for pregnancy.

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