RU-486 <> The Facts
The Developing Baby Starves To Death . . .

MOTHER'S SIDE AFFECTS

IN ALL CASES:
  · Considerable Pain
  · Diarrhea
  · Heavy Bleeding
  · Nausea
  · Severe Cramping
  · Vomiting

REPORTS IN 1-2% OF CASES:
  · Prolonged Bleeding
    - up to 44 days
    - Loss of up to 50% of blood
  · Cardiac Arrest

7 REPORTED DEATHS

Isn't serious risk minimal since it has been reported in only 1% to 2% of the cases? Even the Population Council anticipates that the rates for hemorrhaging, hospitalization, and surgical interventions to stop bleeding will each fall into the range of one to two percent. Projecting these rates on 1.5 million abortions per year, each of these "rare" complications would effect 15,000 to 30,000 women per year. Combined with the problem of cardiac arrest, which has resulted in the death of at least one woman and heart attacks for several others, these complication rates suggest that Roussel Uclaf's decision not to market the drug in the U.S. may reflect greater concern about litigious Americans than about pro-life Americans. - Population Control and RU-486: The Hidden Agenda by David C. Reardon, Ph.D.  

What are the long term effects of these drugs? Long term effects of the drug have not yet been sufficiently studied, but there are reasons to believe that RU-486 could affect not only a woman’s current pregnancy, but her future pregnancies as well, potentially inducing miscarriages or causing severe malformations in later children.

How Does RU-486 Cause An Abortion? RU-486 blocks the action of progesterone, the natural hormone vital to maintaining the rich nutrient lining of the uterus.
The developing baby starves as the nutrient lining disintegrates.

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US Food & Drug Administration Documents

FDA Mifeprex/RU-486 Label

FDA RU-486 Medication Guide

FDA Patient Agreement

FDA Q & A on RU-486

Being a pill, RU-486 sounds like an easy way to have an abortion, when in fact, its use as an abortificient takes 3 doctor visits and a painful and risky process that takes 3 to 4 days if successful - an aborted embryo. Success rate is as low as only 90% to 95%. RU-486 DOESN'T WORK IN NEARLY 1 OUT OF 10 CASES!

What is the procedure?

Visit #1. RU-486, milepristone, (a pill taken by mouth) causes the uterus to shed its lining, which dislodges the embryo.

Visit #2. A prostaglandin, misopostol, (pill or vaginal suppository) will be given 48 hours later. It induces contractions that expel the embryo in about 90% to 95% of the cases. It takes 3 to 4 hours to get bleeding under control. Within 24 hours after the prostaglandin, large blood clots will pass.

Visit #3. About 12 to 14 days after taking RU-486, it must be determined if the abortion was successful. 5% to 10% of the cases will need a surgical abortion to remove the embryo.

RU-486 IN THE NEWS!

  Articles, Newsclippings, Books, Websites on RU-486 from 1991 at www.ru486.org

Fall 1997
The Post-Abortion Review The Mad Rush Toward RU-486
In May of 1994, the Clinton administration announced that it had convinced RU-486 manufacturer Rouessel Uclaf to "donate" the patent to the Population Council, one of America's most zealous promoters of international population control. To further grease the skids, the FDA agreed to lower the standards for testing and review, which are normally required before approval of a new drug. The Population Council would be able to obtain approval by spending only $8 million in drug testing trials, compared to the $100 million or more that drug companies must usually spend. In addition, the target date for approval was reduced to six months. The approval time for most pharmaceuticals, ranging from migraine treatments to chemotherapy drugs, typically requires six years or more. In July of 1996, an FDA advisory panel recommended approval of RU-486 even though the American clinical trials were still not complete.

November 6, 2003
An Open Letter From the Parents of Holly Patterson - Death by RU-486
"Holly suffered and depended on the safety of the FDA approved pill administered by Planned Parenthood..."

July 19, 2005
DANCO LABORATORIES
"From September 2000, when Mifeprex was approved in the United States for market-
ing, through June 2005 more than 460,000 women have used Mifeprex in the US."

December 5, 2005
www.LifeNews.com
Ohio Law Limiting Dangerous RU 486 Abortion Drug Heads to the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati to determine if the nation's only state law on the abortion drugs is constitutional. The law requires abortion practitioners who distribute the drug to follow FDA protocols and not use the drug past 7 weeks of pregnancy or tell women to use it vaginally.

December 5, 2005
www.LifeNews.com
These are the four women who are known to have been killed by RU-486 in the United States (as of 12/5/05):
  · Holly Patterson, died Sept. 17, 2003, age 18
  · Vivian Tran, died Dec. 29, 2003, age 22
  · Chanelle Bryant, died Jan. 14, 2004, age 22
  · Oriane Shevin, died May 24, 2005, age 34

December 7, 2005
The Cincinnati Post
"Ohio has an obligation to limit use of the abortion drug RU-486 to guidelines established by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the state attorney general contends."

December 27, 2005
The Annals of Pharmacotherapy: Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 191-197. DOI 10.1345/aph.1G481 Analysis of Severe Adverse Events Related to the Use of Mifepristone as an Abortifacient
"CONCLUSIONS: Hemorrhage and infection are the leading causes of mifepristone-related morbidity and mortality. AERs relied upon by the FDA to monitor mifepristone's postmarketing safety are grossly deficient due to extremely poor quality.

March 17, 2006
Food and Drug Administration Public Health Advisory
"The Food and Drug Administration has been informed of two additional deaths following medical abortion with mifepristone (Mifeprex)..."

March 17, 2006
Congressman Chris Smith Urges Passage of Holly’s Law After RU-486 is Linked to Additional Deaths of Women
The FDA, under the Clinton Administration, violated their standards and federal law by approving RU-486... He goes on to give 7 FDA violations.

April 10, 2006
Food and Drug Administration Mifeprex (mifepristone) Information
"As previously reported by the agency four women in the United States died from sepsis (severe illness caused by infection of the bloodstream) after medical abortion with Mifeprex and misoprostol. All four women were infected by the same type of bacteria. Sepsis is a known risk related to any type of abortion..."

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