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...safe drug. The rules that the FDA has set out for its prescription are fair. It is the laws limiting its use made in state legislatures and being proposed in Congress that put women's health in jeopardy. It is time for communities without abortion providers, and women who have been waiting for RU-486 for over a decade, to demand that their legislators clear the legal entanglements which may snare the drug before it reaches pharmacy shelves...
MARCH 1996 The Population Council files a new-drug application with the FDA...
JULY 1996 An FDA advisory panel recommends that RU 486 be approved but also says the agency should monitor how the drug is distributed and credentialed...
SEPTEMBER 2000 The FDA approves...
...Population Council receives FDA approval to test the drug in the U.S. During the next six years, more than 300 women receive RU 486 at the University of Southern California...