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"More than 600,000 women in Europe have had medical abortions using mifepristone. Between 1994 and 1995, 121 women in Planned Parenthood and other United States health centers participated in clinical trials of mifepristone and misoprostol sponsored by the Population Council. The results, published in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Archives of Family Medicine in 1998, demonstrated mifepristone to be effective in terminating 92 percent of pregnancies up to 49 days in duration. Additionally, 95.7 percent of women in the same clinical trial reported that they would recommend mifepristone to others. Even among women for whom the method failed, 85.9 percent would recommend it to others. The most common side effect reported by women using mifepristone plus prostaglandin for early abortion and similar to those of a spontaneous miscarriage: uterine cramps, bleeding, nausea, and fatigue. Mifepristone is as safe as aspiration abortion; additionally, it is a completely noninvasive...

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