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...FRENCH-MADE DRUG RU 486 CANNOT BE IMported into the U.S. for a reason that makes pro-choice people livid: it is a safe way of inducing nonsurgical abortions. But a new study done at the University of Edinburgh shows that the drug actually prevents pregnancy in the first place. If taken within 72 hours after intercourse, the drug keeps a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. The same happens if a woman takes a high dose of birth-control pills, but RU 486 has fewer side effects. As an editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine points...
...Supreme Court may have sustained American women's right to choose abortion, but it still seems willing to limit the ways to have one. In a test case involving the French abortion pill RU-486, the Justices by a 7-to-2 vote upheld an appellate-court ruling that bars return of the drug to a pregnant woman. U.S. customs agents had seized the pills from Leona Benten, 29, who had legally acquired them abroad. The court left open the question of the constitutionality of the U.S. ban on RU-486. Benten now plans to have a surgical abortion...
...research in contraceptives 20 years ago, only one (Ortho Pharmaceutical) is still active. The others have been scared off by the fear of costly lawsuits like the one that drove the maker of the Dalkon Shield, an intrauterine device, into bankruptcy, and by public controversy such as that surrounding RU-486, the French "abortion pill...
...being studied around the world, including a hormone-releasing IUD, a hormonal badge that is taped to the arm and releases a contraceptive through the skin, a female condom and a hormone-emitting vaginal ring, which a woman can insert and remove at will. The French abortion pill, RU-486, is being actively considered for approval in several other European countries but has not been approved in the U.S. Thanks in part to political skittishness about funding contraception in the U.S., American women still have a paltry array of birth- control choices. Many experts see this contraceptive...
Determined pro-choicers say RU 486 could enter the U.S. through the back door. The drug has potential as a therapy for endometriosis and breast cancer. If RU 486 were approved to treat these conditions, doctors could also prescribe it for abortions. Roussel opposes any deception. Says Dr. Baulieu: "RU 486 has to be sold as the abortion pill that...