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Abortion pill hasn't broadened abortion access in U.S.

September 7, 2009
Reuters

Even after the "abortion pill" RU-486 made it possible for all doctors to provide early abortions, access to abortions did not improve as dramatically as women had hoped.

When RU-486, also called mifepristone, was approved by the FDA in 2000 for early pregnancy termination, it was expected to improve access to early abortion because pregnancies could be terminated more privately, within a few days after conception, without surgery, and with only a prescription for the medication from a woman's personal physician, no matter where in the country she lived.

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