Deaths May Have Been Caused By Abortion Drug’s Off-Label Use

Preliminary U-M studies indicate that oral use of RU-486’s companion drug misoprostol is safe, but vaginal use may undermine body’s immune responsesThe off-label use of a drug given with RU-486 to terminate a pregnancy may be responsible for a handful of rare, fatal infections seen in women taking the drugs since 2000, a study by University of Michigan scientists suggests.The drug misoprostol is FDA-approved to be taken by mouth along with RU-486 to end a pregnancy.

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Filed under: Abortion on June 19th, 2008