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Changes Reduced Infections From Medical Abortion

9th July 2009 by admin 2 Comments

Two changes to the way Planned Parenthood clinics perform medical abortion resulted in a 93 percent drop in the rate of serious infections, a new report says.
The changes involved administering the drug misoprostol to the area between the gum and the cheek (buccal administration), not the vagina, and introducing routine treatment with antibiotics.
“Planned Parenthood is [...]

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Study Finds Abortion Pill Safe

11th June 2009 by admin 1 Comment

Though the first documented medical abortion in the U.S. dates back to 1950, it wasn’t until 2000 that the Food and Drug Administration approved the contentious medical-abortion drug, mifepristone (still commonly referred to by its clinical-trial designation, RU-486), as an alternative to the conventional surgical procedure. Since then, more than 500,000 U.S. women — and [...]

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