Firstly, because a great many first-time sufferers might not suspect that relief can come from books as well as boxes of pills.
Clandestine abortions cost anywhere between £50 for a packet of misopostrol pills (tablets that can be inserted into the vagina to induce an abortion), and £1,200 for an appointment in a private clinic.
Her popularity coincided with abuse by the studios, including the use of diet pills that led to addiction.
At the weekend more than 100 women openly defied the law in Northern Ireland when they revealed in the Observer that they had used abortion pills bought from pro-choice charities over the internet.
Curiously, Pietersen was then offered a position on an advisory board for England's one-day side; unsurprisingly, that sweetener to the bitterest of pills was rejected.
Pro-choice and women's groups have condemned the move, accusing both politicians of "hypocrisy" given that Northern Irish women in crisis pregnancies can already access abortion pills on the internet or else have a medical termination in England.
Concerns that tap water contains oestrogens from contraceptive pills being peed out or that it has passed through the kidneys of 10 people are not valid, says Younger.
The court had heard he was paid £1,000 for a story headlined "Suicide Brady hid pills in his sock" in February 2008, a month after he first made contact with Panton.
Her pills contained 2,4-Dinitrophenol, a chemical that Neal Patel, a pharmacist and head of corporate communications at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS), describes as "a pesticide that should never cross the lips of any person".
Smart pills and connected monitoring patches are already available, highlighting the life-saving potential of IoT, and many people are already strapping smartwatches or fitness bands to their wrists to track their steps or heartbeat while on a run.
But the amendments are being met with opposition from most Democrats as well as libertarian-minded Republicans, who view them as so-called "poison pills" designed to weaken the product of marathon negotiations between Congress, the Obama administration and the intelligence community.
