Anti-abortion advocates have claimed that the drug is not safe and that the ... and it’s sometimes known as RU-486. Mifepristone blocks a hormone called progesterone, which helps the body ...

- an abortion-inducing drug (trade name RU_486) developed in France; when taken during the first five weeks of pregnancy it blocks the action of progesterone so that the uterus sloughs off the embryo ...

Mifepristone is reported by the FDA to have fewer than 0.5% of recipients experiencing “serious adverse reactions,” and death associated with the drug is even more rare.

It stipulates anyone who “mails or delivers an abortion-inducing drug” into Tennessee ... The bill includes the drugs mifepristone, misoprostol, and mifeprex (RU-486) “when possessed or ...