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RU-486 Explained

NPR
Published September 28, 2000 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Joanne Silberner looks at how the abortion drug RU486 works. She talks to American women who were involved in the studies submitted to the Food and Drug Administration that led to today's approval.

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