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The Four Thieves Vinegar Collective first demonstrated how to make misoprostol tablets, which are used to induce an abortion, at the Please Try This at Home conference in Pittsburgh in 2019. Last year, after Texas passed a near total abortion ban, Mixael Laufer, who runs the collective, published a 17-minute video explaining how to make the pills at home.
Laufer repeatedly shared the video again Monday night after a leaked court decision showed that the Supreme Court is planning to overturn Roe v. Wade, which would automatically trigger total abortion bans in nearly half of U.S. states. When a Twitter user asked if there was a writeup of their “hypothetical” abortion pill manufacturing process, Laufer responded with a link to the video.
“Not hypothetical at all. Go forth and rock it,” Laufer tweeted.
In the video, Laufer explains that, besides being used to medically induce abortions, misoprostol is also used to treat ulcers in horses. This makes misoprostol powder relatively easy to acquire from veterinary sources.
Laufer explains in the video how to dose misoprostol and how to press it into pills using a scale, corn syrup, powdered sugar, a spray bottle, and a pollen press. They explain that a three-dose regimen of misoprostol is 85 percent effective in inducing abortion. If taken with mifepristone, another abortion pill, that rate rises to 95 percent effectiveness, though raw mifepristone is harder to source.
The neodymium magnet implants in my hand have gotten old and grown weak. I can barely touch any EM fields anymore, and certainly not at the range I used to be able to. But one of the things I can still reliably feel is my laptop's power supply.
The result is that some nights I will sit with my laptop comfortably on my lap, stroking it gently to feel the vibrations as the EM field excites the implants in my fingertips. Feeling the warmth and the soft, soothing vibration as I slide my hand across its smooth metal surface like it was a purring kitten.
This isn't a computergirl post, but it may as well be.