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Information and Experience with Medical Abortion Offers a comparative look on how abortion is approached in Austria, and the use of mifepristone to induce abortions. http://www.abtreibung.at/pages/English.html

Mifepristone Information Program to educate and instruct health care professionals, including physicians, nurses, assistants, counselors, and office staff, in the safe and effective administration of mifepristone/misoprostol for early medical abortion. http://www.earlyoptions.org/

Mifepristone (RU-486): The Medical Abortion Student paper describes and summarizes the issues surrounding this procedure. http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/biology/b103/f00/web1/kennedy.html

Nonsurgical (Medical) Abortion Pro-choice views on nonsurgical abortion, as well as advice on obtaining medical abortion without surgery, using methotrexate or RU-486. From About.com. http://prochoice.about.com/newsissues/prochoice/cs/nosurgerymethods/index.htm

Prescribe Choice: Working for Emergency Contraception and Mifepristone Join the campaign to increase campus availability of Mifepristone and EC. http://www.prescribechoice.org

RU486 and the Abortion Issue, by Cartoonists Collection of political cartoons about the abortion issue from newspaper editorial cartoonists around the world. http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/abortion/

The RU-486 Files Articles and newsclippings, books and other resources about RU-486, mostly from a pro-life perspective. http://www.ru486.org/

RU-486: Malpractice Attorneys Should Prepare Pro-life essayist predicts that FDA approval of the French abortion pill will provide a challenge to plaintiff attorneys. From About.com. http://prolife.about.com/newsissues/prolife/library/archives/news/aa020800news1.htm

The Abortion Cocktail Essay on non-surgical abortion with methotrexate, mifepristone, and other chemical agents, by Bernard N. Nathanson. (January, 1996) http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=3802