Antiprogestogens are used as abortifacients and emergency contraceptives and in the treatment of uterine fibroids. Some versions of the Hippocratic Oath indirectly protected fetus by prohibiting abortifacients. They found medicine or herbs to terminate pregnancies (abortifacients) or practiced abstinence. Any other people who abort the fetus using abortifacients will be punished. As such, some abortifacients were marketed as menstrual regulatives. Newspaper advertisements were used to promote and sell abortifacients indirectly. Abortifacients for animals that have mated undesirably are known as "mismating shots". Anthony's newspaper, "The Revolution", refused to publish advertisements for abortifacients. The peacock flower and the cotton root were plants that could be used as abortifacients. At the end of the episode, Gaia is seen purchasing some abortifacients.