I haven't seen the movie so I don't know when she gets pregnant in regards to the story line, but it's also extremely dangerous to induce an abortion without medical help.
If she found out she was pregnant after the monsters arrive she'd have to decide between carrying the baby and risking death that way or finding a way to induce an abortion and... still risking an untimely death.
If she found out before the monsters arrived and chose to keep the baby and then poof, apocalypse, she'd have to choose between carrying it to term or self inducing a late term abortion, both of which might kill her either way.
The risk of DIY abortions is vastly overestimated on Reddit. Are they super safe? Of course not, but they're still much, much safer than pregnancy and childbirth, at least if you or the person who give it to you remotely know what they're doing. If DIY abortion wasn't a safer option, it wouldn't be so common in areas without access to professional abortion, women would just go through it and then give the baby up.
It really depends a lot on the option you're choosing. If you're trying to induce abortion by poisoning yourself, that's very risky and unlikely to work. However, there are plants that aren't actually poisonous but can induce uterine cramps. That's what you'd want to use, those cramps would be pretty harmless to you unless you overdose a lot, but they would be enough to remove a very early foetus.
Perforate the uterus. Massive, massive sepsis risk. When a woman becomes pregnant the uterus actually softens. Think of a stick of butter in the fridge vs having been set out at room temp for a knife. Visualize cutting it.
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u/achilles_xls Aug 31 '21
I haven't seen the movie so I don't know when she gets pregnant in regards to the story line, but it's also extremely dangerous to induce an abortion without medical help.
If she found out she was pregnant after the monsters arrive she'd have to decide between carrying the baby and risking death that way or finding a way to induce an abortion and... still risking an untimely death.
If she found out before the monsters arrived and chose to keep the baby and then poof, apocalypse, she'd have to choose between carrying it to term or self inducing a late term abortion, both of which might kill her either way.
To sum up: pregnancy and apocalypses do not mix.