This is how it works: first, one pill in the doctor's office or at the clinic, and, a day or two later, a second set of pills at home. Then the waiting, with a husband or a girlfriend, watching ...

Abortion rights advocates have long expressed their outrage over women’s deaths due to illegal back-alley abortions. So where are feminist outcries of shock and dismay over fatalities related to use ...

OTTAWA — Results are starting to come in on the use of the RU-486 abortion pill, and they didn't look good. The Canadian government refused in May to publicly disclose results from its investigation ...

The abortion drug RU-486 prevents breast cancer in mice carrying a dangerous "cancer gene" mutation, new studies show. RU-486 itself will not be the answer for women; the potent drug is not meant for ...

Monty Patterson pulls out a large manila envelope. "In order to understand what I'm doing, I need you to see who Holly was," he said. He pours the photos onto the desk. There is his blond, smiling ...

This time, we are talking about “the abortion pill.” In an article about RU-486, the Washington Post declares that “thirty-five years after the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a pill ...

Rebekah Chaveste, who had successful RU-486 reversal after taking the pill at a Planned Parenthood clinic in San Francisco, plays with her son, Zechariah, in early March. Chaveste took advantage of a ...

Italy has approved the use of the abortion drug RU-486, capping years of debate and defying opposition from the Vatican, which warned of immediate excommunication for doctors prescribing the pill and ...

The Food and Drug Administration must pull RU-486 instead of adding a warning label by the manufacturer. Two more recent deaths have been reported along with 850 serious complications. If these women ...

Politics may not have played a role in the Food and Drug Administration’s approval last week of the marketing of RU-486, the abortion-inducing pill. But surely FDA administrators and scientists are ...

The Czech dramatist Capek in his play ”R.U.R.” anticipates that ominous future when that which we have created will take on the power to give or take life. There is the poignant scene in the epilogue ...