MetaFilter posts tagged with abortion and RU486

As you might have heard on the news today, two more women have died after taking RU-486.

sequential — Fri, 17 Mar 2006 19:01:16 -0800

The number of patient fatalities in mifepristone abortions is estimated at 1 in 200,000¹, about double the rate for suction-aspiration abortions of comparable terms, and about equal to the combined early and late term fatality rates for vacuum aspiration abortion.² (source) (via) [More inside]

The RU486 debate becomes ugly.

Effigy2000 — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 01:12:55 -0800

An Australian Government Member of Parliament (MP) will be trying to amend a crucial piece of legislation which, if the amendment is successful, will make it far harder (if not impossible) for Australian women to gain access to abortion drug RU486 because of fears that making it easier for women to access the drug will lead Australia down a path of Islamisation. "I've actually read in the Daily Telegraph where a certain imam from the Lakemba mosque actually said that Australia is going to be a Muslim nation in 50 years' time. I didn't believe him at the time but when you actually look at the birthrates... we are aborting ourselves almost out of existence." Liberal MP Danna Vale said today. Has she been reading Metafilter?

Steven Den Beste — Sat, 09 Jun 2001 15:29:40 -0800

When is contraception not contraception? When is RU-486 a contraceptive pill and when is it a birth control pill?

Steven Den Beste — Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:34:06 -0800

It's about time. (More inside)