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RU-486, now known by its chemical name mifepristone, can be
used only within 49 days of the beginning of the woman's
last menstrual period. The woman takes three mifepristone
pills. Two days later, she returns to the doctor to swallow
a second drug, misoprostol, that causes uterine contractions
to expel the embryo. She returns for a follow-up visit
within two weeks to make sure the abortion is complete.

The FDA will allow mifepristone to be distributed only to
doctors trained to accurately diagnose the duration of
pregnancy and to detect ectopic, or tubal, pregnancies,
because those women cannot receive mifepristone.

Also, the FDA restricted mifepristone's use to doctors who
can operate in case a surgical abortion is needed to finish
the job or in cases of severe bleeding -- or to doctors who
have made advance arrangements for a surgeon to provide such
care to their patients.

Studies show mifepristone is 92 percent to 95 percent
effective in causing early abortion, by blocking action of a
hormone essential for maintaining pregnancy. Without that
hormone, progesterone, the uterine lining thins so an embryo
cannot remain implanted and grow.

The pill-induced abortion can be painful, causing bleeding
and nausea. Heavy bleeding is a potentially serious side
effect but one the FDA determined is rare. In safety testing
of the first 2,100 American women who took mifepristone,
four bled enough to need a transfusion.

Health experts say mifepristone won't increase abortions --
that didn't happen in Europe. But the FDA's formal approval
may encourage more doctors who don't offer surgical
abortions to offer the pill, thus making it easier for
women, particularly in rural areas, to get an abortion
without traveling hundreds of miles or entering surgical
clinics often staked out by protesters.

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As the previous excerpts make clear, these pills are not risk
free. They can induce severe bleeding which may result in the
necessity of a blood transfusion being performed. In fact, as
you will see in a moment, Mifepristone, or RU 486, has a very
bad track record, and can be deadly.

What I find particularly repulsive is the ungodly attitude,
and the obvious lack of respect for the sanctity of human
life, that is evident in the latter excerpt. I am referring
to the writer's cold reference to the need "to finish the
job" in case complications arise. These are unborn, living
children that we are talking about; yet to the cold-hearted
abortionist, it is just another job so that he can get his
pay check. "Well, if the RU 486 fails to work properly, we
will just have to 'finish the job' of slaughtering the baby
by performing a regular abortion" seems to be the attitude
of these cold-hearted monsters.

What I also find troubling about RU 486 is the fact that it
adds yet another layer of secrecy to the abortion issue. In
other words, it allows millions of women worldwide to murder
their babies during the first seven weeks of gestation while
making it easier to do so; because they won't have to go to
a high-profile abortion clinic or Planned Parenthood center,
where they may be vulnerable to attack or criticism by those
people who oppose abortion. In other words, because of the
legalization of this damnable pill, they will now be able to
commit their sin against God more in secret. Because RU 486
only works for a very limited period of a woman's pregnancy,
that is, during the first five to seven weeks, no one will
ever know that she is aborting her baby, except herself and
her doctor. Many women don't even begin to show that early.
So as I said, Mifeprex/Mifepristone cloaks abortion in even
more secrecy than before.

As the previous excerpts explain, all that these women have
to do is visit their doctor; take three Mifepristone pills,
return two days later to take another kind of pill, go home,
and return two weeks later to make sure the entire fetus has
been expelled through the pill-induced miscarriage. But it
is not really an accidental miscarriage, it's an intentional
chemical-induced abortion, plain and simple. RU 486 creates
an environment where the fetus is unable to remain attached
to the uterus. The second pill then forces the uterus to
expel the fetus in a very painful way.

As I noted a moment ago, Mifepristone is not one hundred per
cent safe by any means; and there are serious complications
for a small number of women who use it. While the advocates
of RU 486 claim that the additional layer of secrecy that is
provided by this new form of terrorism against the unborn
will not contribute to a rise in the abortion rate, I don't
see how this can be true, and I must question their claims.
If anything, RU 486 will increase the opportunity for many
young girls to obtain an abortion in secret, without their
parents ever knowing about it. This seems to be verified by
information which I found on the Wikipedia website, which
was itself extracted from a report by the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. It states in part:

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Medical abortions as a percentage of total abortions in the
United States have increased every year since the approval
of mifepristone: 1.0% in 2000, 2.9% in 2001, 5.2% in 2002,
7.9% in 2003, 9.3% in 2004 (14.2% of those less than 9 weeks
gestation); although data is limited by eleven states not
reporting statistics to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) (including California where an estimated
>23% of total U.S. abortions were performed in 1997).

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In the previous excerpt, the phrase "medical abortions" is
referring to the use of drugs, such as RU 486, in order to
induce an abortion. As you can see, medical abortions have
in fact risen every single year since Mifeprex/Mifepristone
was first introduced into the United States and approved by
the FDA during liberal President Bill Clinton's watch.

Furthermore, it should also be noted that RU 486 will also
contribute to a rise in promiscuity, because the fear of a
discovered pregnancy will be mitigated. In other words, the
mentality will probably be "Well if the birth control fails,
I can just fall back on this new abortion pill in order to
abort the fetus before anyone finds out about it." In short,
people will be more inclined to engage in promiscuous sex,
because they will believe that they have now got all of the
bases covered, in case a girl or woman does become pregnant.

Thankfully, Mifepristone/RU 486 has not fared as well in US
pharmaceutical markets as had been hoped for and expected. A
news article published in the June 20th, 2001 edition of the
Maranatha Christian News stated in part:

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Experts expected the FDA's approval of the pill last fall to
revolutionize abortion practices. But with less than a third
of Planned Parenthood facilities providing it nationally,
and with more women rejecting the complicated procedure of
multiple medical visits required for the pill, RU-486's
market penetration has been modest.

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In fact, a full four years after this dangerous abortion drug
was approved by the FDA, a clear picture had begun to develop
which clearly reveals that it was a very serious mistake to
have ever allowed this hideous form of chemical abortion into
the United States. A November, 2004 article in the New York
Times states in part:

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The first woman in the United States whose death was tied
to mifepristone suffered a ruptured ectopic pregnancy in
September 2001. The F.D.A. has received 676 reports of
problems with the drug, including 17 ectopic pregnancies,
72 cases of blood loss so severe that they required
transfusions and 7 cases of serious infections, the agency
reported.

The death of a California woman in January after she took
an abortion pill prompted federal drug regulators on Monday
to strengthen the warning label on the drug, RU-486, also
known as mifepristone.

The death was the third in the United States that the Food
and Drug Administration has linked to the pill since its
approval in 2000.

Neither he nor Dr. Summers would disclose any further
information about the case, but the latest death is similar
to that of Holly Patterson, a woman from the San Francisco
area, who died of sepsis after taking mifepristone on Sept.
17, 2003, less than a month after her 18th birthday.

"How many more women have to die before F.D.A. will put
women's health and lives above the politics of abortion?"
Ms. Wright said.

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