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Two More Women Die After Taking Abortion Pill
March 17, 2006
CNN.com Health News reports that 2 more women have died after taking the abortion pill RU-486.
The Food and Drug Administration warned doctors to watch for a rare but deadly infection previously implicated in four deaths of women who had taken RU-486. The drug combination, also called Mifeprex or mifepristone, has not been proved to be the cause in any of those cases.
Nor has the FDA confirmed the cause of the latest two deaths. However, in one of them, the woman's symptoms appeared to resemble those in a cluster of four cases in California where the women died from an infection of the bloodstream, or sepsis. Those women did not follow FDA-approved instructions for a drug-induced abortion, which requires swallowing three tablets of one drug, followed two days later by two pills of another drug.