Joyce Blacken, an office manager at an electronics company outside Rochester, N.Y., volunteered to take the "abortion pill," RU-486, every day for four months, but not because she was pregnant ...

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These laws of notification and consent apply to any abortion, whether it is a surgical procedure or the newly available medical procedure using RU-486, also known as Mifepristone, Mifeprex, or the ...

B E I J I N G, Oct. 12 -- A leading Chinese pharmaceutical company that hasmade the abortion pill RU-486 for at least seven years willmanufacture the drug for the U.S. market, officials said today ...

Anti-abortion forces, who are boycotting the manufacturer of RU-486, Roussel Uclaf and its parent company Hoechst A.G. of Germany, condemn the drug as a “human pesticide” that will make ...

Mifeprex is the trade name for mifepristone, better known as RU-486, the so-called abortion pill that received FDA approval last fall. That's right, that pill ...

RU-486 was developed in France and became available there in 1988. In 1989, Bush's father, President George Bush, ordered the FDA to ba importation of the drug for personal use.

NPR's Joanne Silberner has a report on the abortion pill, RU 486. It's been nearly a year since the FDA approved the drug, and a new survey shows far fewer doctors than expected are offering it ...

A 1999 New York Times magazine cover story by Margaret Talbot called mifepristone (RU-486) "the little white bombshell," speculating that the pill used for first-trimester non-surgical abortion ...

Legally, RU-486 may be taken only through the 49th day of pregnancy, counting from the start of a woman’s last menstural period. That’s only about three weeks after a missed period.