RU-486 The New Abortion Pill: How Safe Is It?
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RU-486 is an abortion pill. This pill is a steroid hormone similar to the natural hormone progesterone. It is an antiprogestrone drug that blocks receptors of progesterone, a key hormone in order to start and maintain a human pregnancy.
RU-486 is made up of Mifeprisone (a.k.a. RU-486) and also ta ....
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.... early in the pregnancy before the progesterone levels had reached a critical threshold. The drug’s first large testing has only been under way in France and England. The massive field trail has involved dating more than 100,000 women.
The creator of RU-486 is Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu. He made this for the French pharmaceutical company named Rossel-Uclaf. RU-486 is the first of a generation of birth control drugs called “antiprogestins” considered to be a breakthrough in birth cont ....
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