Abortion

Abortion pills account for 6% of U.S. abortions

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 9th, 2003

Doctors used pills such as RU-486 to perform about 6% of abortions in the first several months after the controversial drug was approved in the United States, a new study says.

The study, published January 15, 2003, by the Alan Guttmacher Institute, is one of the first to account for the number of abortions using mifepristone, or RU-486, since it became available in 2000. The study estimates that more than 37,000 abortions were performed using pills in the first 6 months of 2001.

The researchers noted the U.S. abortion rate continued to fall to its lowest rate since the 1970s - 21.3 abortions for every 1000 women aged 15-44. The number of providers...

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