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Abortion rights advocates have long expressed their outrage over women’s deaths due to illegal back-alley abortions. So where are feminist outcries of shock and dismay over fatalities related to use ...

OTTAWA — Results are starting to come in on the use of the RU-486 abortion pill, and they didn't look good. The Canadian government refused in May to publicly disclose results from its investigation ...

Rebekah Chaveste, who had successful RU-486 reversal after taking the pill at a Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco, plays with her son, Zechariah, in early March. Chaveste took advantage of a ...

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RU 486 (mifepristone), the first antiprogestin available for clinical purposes, has been synthesized by Roussel-Uclaf. It possesses both antiprogesterone and antiglucocorticoid properties (Philibert ...

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Two pregnant women died and others were seriously sickened after taking the abortion drug RU-486 during the 21 months since its approval in 2000. In an April letter to physicians, Danco Laboratories, ...

The Food and Drug Administration must pull RU-486 instead of adding a warning label by the manufacturer. Two more recent deaths have been reported along with 850 serious complications. If these women ...

RU 486, discovered more than 10 years ago, is an antiprogestin. Antiprogestins attach to progesterone receptors on the cell membrane in competition with the steroid hormone progesterone. When ...