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 ...

Holly Patterson's father Monty was still in shock when he buried his 18-year-old daughter just days after he was called to a northern California emergency room. "The doctor came in and basically ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since RU-486’s approval, rising safety concerns and common side effects have led to little use. The abortion pill is catching on, but only slowly. Contrary to predictions, few physicians have ...

More information was released Wednesday on the four women who died after taking the abortion pill commonly known as RU-486. A study in The New England Journal of Medicine details the infections each ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...