TikToks advocating for people to end pregnancies using herbs are getting hundreds of thousands of views. “I’m horrified. They’re going to kill people,” says Mary Jane Minkin, MD, a gynecologist and clinical professor.
“I’m horrified. They’re going to kill people,” says Mary Jane Minkin, MD, a gynecologist and clinical professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale University School of Medicine. Minkin had been hearing whispers about people promoting herbal abortifacients on TikTok, as well as home vacuum aspirations, which can potentially result in sepsis or death. “It’s terrifying because 49 years ago, that’s how women died,” she says.
pulegone, which gets metabolized in the body and forms toxins that can cause liver necrosis, says Josh Trebach, emergency medicine physician and medical toxicologist in Iowa City. Side effects of ingestion can include vomiting and abdominal pain, as well as seizures, coma, liver failure, and death. Blue cohosh, another plant that has been suggested as an abortifacient on TikTok, also contains
On TikTok, there is a plethora of information about these potentially dangerous herbal abortifacients. The hashtag #pennyroyaltea has about 1.1 million views, and while some of the videos are simply references to the Nirvana song “Pennyroyal Tea,” one of the top results is a video advocating for its use as an abortifiacient. That video, from someone claiming to be a nurse at Planned Parenthood, is set to “Do You Hear the People Sing?” and has more than 4,500 views.
“Fifty years ago we didn’t have TikTok. There was some filtration in information,” she says. “But now anyone can publish anything anywhere and it gets out to billions of people. It just terrifies me.
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