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Mifeprex (Mifepristone) medical abortion pill (RU486), earlyoptionpill.com:"At last. An early option for women. Mifeprex* (Mifepristone) The Early Option Pill. It's what women have wanted for years: a safe, effective and innovative way to end pregnancy - taken orally, without surgery - early on. Danco Laboratories, a women's health pharmaceutical company, is pleased to present Mifeprex, the first Food and Drug Administration approved pill for ending early pregnancy. Mifeprex is a safe and effective medical abortion pill. Taken orally, it is non-invasive, avoiding surgery or anesthesia in most cases. Some women feel it is a more private option. When women choose the early option pill, they will receive counseling and support throughout the process."
http://www.earlyoptionpill.com/

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Mifepristone Information, U.S. Food and Drug Administration • Center for Drug Evaluation and Research:"The Food and Drug Administration has approved mifepristone (trade name Mifeprex) for the termination of early pregnancy, defined as 49 days or less, counting from the beginning of the last menstrual period."
http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/mifepristone/default.htm

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How Is RU 486 Used?, RU 486 The Abortion Pill Approved, Womens Health, About.com:"According to rules set by the FDA, the use of RU 486 requires three visits to a physician's office. RU 486 can only be prescribed by a physician after a HCG blood test, and a sonogram confirm and date the pregnancy. RU 486 is approved for use up to the 49th day of pregnancy, or about 7 weeks. Once pregnancy is confirmed a woman returns to her physician's office for 2 doses of medication. First, she is given one dose of mifepristone, a synthetic steroid, which causes a fertilized egg to be unable to remain attached to the lining of the uterus. The second pill misoprostol, which causes uterine contractions, is taken 2 days later and terminates pregnancy anywhere from 6 hours to one week later. Both pills are taken in the physician's office."
http://womenshealth.about.com/library/weekly/aa092800a.htm

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Feminist Majority Foundation Reports On Mifepristone:"Mifepristone shows promise as a treatment for a wide range of serious diseases and conditions. Yet clinical trials on most of these uses in the U.S. have come to a standstill because of anti-abortion politics. In the absence of clinical trials, several dozen people with Cushing's Syndrome, meningioma, and breast cancer are currently being treated with mifepristone under compassionate use protocols."
1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 801 Arlington, VA 22209
703-522-2214 703-522-2219 (fax) E-mail: femmaj@feminist.org
http://www.feminist.org/gateway/ru486one.html

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RU486: The Pill, The Process, The Problems: Mifepristone The French Abortion Pill The:"Is this the "morning after" pill I've heard so much about?:"No. Those pills operate in a different way and during a different time frame than RU486. Morning after pills, or "emergency contraception," are essentially very high, multiple dosages of birth control pills taken within 72 hours of unprotected intercourse.(7), (8) While there have been some limited tests of RU486 as a morning after pill, with mixed results,(9) the only purpose for which the U.S. sponsor has sought government approval is for use to abort a confirmed pregnancy(10), (11) weeks after the baby has already attached him or herself to the uterine wall."
http://www.nrlc.org/ru486all.html

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Population Council Welcomes FDA Approval of Mifeprex™ (mifepristone):"NEW YORK (28, September, 2000)-The Population Council, the U.S. sponsor of the new drug application for the Mifeprex™ brand of mifepristone, is pleased that the Food and Drug Administration has approved this important new medical option. American women now will have access to this nonsurgical method, as do women in France, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and other countries in Europe. Mifeprex™ has been studied in many countries and used by over 620,000 women."
New York Headquarters, Population Council
One Dag Hammarskjold Plaza New York, New York 10017 USA
Telephone: (212) 339-0500 Facsimile: (212) 755-6052 E-mail: pubinfo@popcouncil.org
http://www.popcouncil.org/mifeprex/statement.html

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Mifeprex® is Not Emergency Contraception, Reproductive Health Technologies Project:"What Mifeprex® is . . . A non-invasive, safe and effective option for women to terminate their pregnancy early. Mifeprex® blocks a hormone progesterone that is needed for a pregnancy to continue. When followed by another medicine misoprostol, Mifeprex® ends an unwanted pregnancy. Mifeprex® was approved by the Food and Drug Administration on September 28, 2000 and can be taken to end a pregnancy from the time a woman knows she is pregnant up to seven weeks (49 days) after the beginning of her last menstrual period. Mifeprex® will not be distributed through pharmacies. The drug will be available only to physicians who establish an account with Danco Laboratories, the manufacturer of the drug."
http://www.rhtp.org/early/early_mifep_notec.htm

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The RU486 Files:
http://www.ru486.org/

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Population Control and RU-486: The Hidden Agenda By David C. Reardon, Ph.D., Afterabortion.org:"Population control advocates insist that expanded access to abortion is essential to improving the status and health of women throughout the world. Indeed, this message was tirelessly promoted by Hillary Clinton and U.S. officials at a long series of recent U.N. conferences dealing with population growth and women's rights. Pro-lifers are obviously opposed to any effort to expand abortion access around the world. In the current battle over the foreign operations appropriation bill, they are seeking to reinstate a policy that banned the distribution of funds to organizations that perform or promote abortions. If they succeed in adding this restrictive language, the White House is threatening to veto the bill."
http://nichole.simonweb.com/~afterabortion/RU486.html

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RU486: The Hidden Effects, Americans United for Life (AUL):"Lawrence Roberge M.S. was on the scientific advisory group that investigated RU486 for Americans United for Life (AUL) in 1994-1995. As a result of their research, AUL filed a complaint letter against the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) blocking the FDA attempt to put RU486 on fast track approval. Also as a result of this research, the FDA required the adverse effects information to be incorporated into the drug warning literature. The following article is based on some of that research."
http://pages.map.com/lroberge/ru486.htm

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What Other Uses Does RU 486 Have? Childbirth by Choice Trust:"The medical community has identified RU 486 as a promising treatment for several major medical problems, including: certain breast cancers ovarian cancer meningioma(brain tumour) endometriosis Cushing's syndrome adrenal cancer glaucoma uterine fibroid tumours induction of labour cervical ripening contraception."
Childbirth by Choice Trust 344 Bloor St. W. #502 Toronto, Canada M5S 3A7 416-961-7812 info@cbctrust.com
http://www.cbctrust.com/RU486.96.html

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National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL):"In September of 2000, after more than a decade of delays at the hands of anti-choice activists and lawmakers, mifepristone (RU 486), received final approval from the FDA. Mifepristone has been available to women in Europe for over a decade. It has been shown to be a safe and effective alternative to surgical abortion following extensive clinical trials in France, Great Britain, and Sweden. But this important reproductive health option had been unavailable to women in the U.S., largely due to anti-choice politics."
NARAL, Kate Michelman, President
1156 15th Street Suite 700 Washington, DC 20005
Main Number: (202) 973-3000 Main Fax: (202) 973-3096, comments@naral.org
http://www.naral.org/Issues/ru486/index.cfm

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RU 486: The Abortion Drug - A Fact Sheet, Pro-Life Wisconsin:"How does it work? During pregnancy, the preborn baby requires a chemical called progesterone. This chemical is produced naturally in the mother’s body. It is so valuable to the baby’s proper growth and development that some call it "nature’s pregnancy hormone". RU-486 works against this hormone. It breaks down and then destroys the surroundings the baby has established in his mother’s womb, and eventually destroys the baby as well. The chemical cuts off nourish-ment to the preborn child, who starves to death inside his mother’s womb. But RU-486 does not work alone. A second chemical is also involved. How does this second chemical work? The second chemical (misoprostol), causes cramping and contractions. After RU-486 has killed the tiny boy or girl through starvation, this second chemical is designed to push the dead baby out of the mother’s womb."
http://www.prolifewisconsin.org/infolibraryshow.asp?lID=20

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February 19, 2002: FDA Data on RU-486 Spotty, Inconclusive:"(CNSNews.com) - The abortion pill RU-486 can have serious side effects and complications, but the federal government's requirements for data collecting appear to do little to help advocates on either side of the issue make their case about the safety of the drug."
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewCulture.asp?Page=\Culture\archive\200202\CUL20020219a.html

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