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Eleanor Smeal, co-founder of the Feminist Majority, predicted "the number of abortions will double overnight" once RU-486 was released from FDA captivity. An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine hailed the drug as a "dramatic advance" because it would enable women to avoid the "emotional nightmare" of dealing with pro-life demonstrators who, if one believes pro-abortion rhetoric, are apparently encamped around abortion clinics.
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Its not cheap...Danco Laboratories, the low-profile corporation that holds the exclusive license to market the drug in the United States, sells 200 mg mifepristone tablets to providers for an asystole-inducing $90 apiece. Typically three are required to block the pregnancy-sustaining effects of progesterone. This $270 liability, along with other burdens (which follow) and their related fees, typically costs about $100 more than its surgical counterpart.
While taking a few pills might, at first blush,
sound much easier than enduring a surgical procedure, an encounter with RU-486 can prove to be a daunting project. Three office visits are needed: one for diagnosis, counseling and actual administration of the medication; another two days later to obtain misoprostol to induce uterine contractions; and a follow-up two weeks later to confirm the pregnancy’s termination. Cramping, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, along with bleeding and spotting lasting up to two weeks, are the norm following the administration of misoprostol. And if the abortion is incomplete, surgical intervention will be needed after all.
Second, women seeking abortions often want an immediate solution.
But perhaps the most eye-opening reason for the tepid response to RU-486 is medical involvement,the doctors in this country won’t supply it.
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