Extensive RU486 Info Now Available on NRLC Web Site.(National Right to Life Committee)

If you're a woman between the ages of 18 and 35, chances are you've heard or read a lot about RU486, the abortion pill that's been on the American market since late 2000. And chances are, what you've heard or read is dead wrong.

Early on, women's magazines heralded RU486 as some new kind of safe, simple, nearly magical potion that simply makes the baby disappear. Mademoiselle explicitly referred to it as the "miracle pill" in November 1988, and Sue Halpern in the April 1987 issue of Ms. magazine wrote, "Imagine being pregnant, swallowing a pill, and - - presto! - - not being pregnant any longer." Susan Lang, in the August 1988 issue of Vogue, wrote "It's a breakthrough - - not only less painful but safer than surgical abortions."

Recent ads by the National Abortion Federation appearing this summer, not only in some of those same women's magazines but also in high profile medical journals, have touted the drug as a "breakthrough" and "another safe abortion choice."

But is the drug safe? Is it simple? Is it effective? Are the pill's promoters in the publishing field and the pro-abortion lobby being up front about the pill's problems? And was it politics or science that drove RU486's approval in the waning days of the Clinton Administration?

You might not find out much about that from the abortion lobby or from the major media outlets, but you will find that info and much more on the National Right to Life web site at www.nrlc.org/ RU486/RU486info.html.

Spanning nearly 30 printed pages with 250 footnotes, the NRL Educational Trust Fund's "Extensive Background Information on RU486" provides what may be - - outside official government documents - - the most thorough, comprehensive, detailed, and yet accessible presentation of information on RU486 found anywhere on the Internet.

In a simple, easy-to-understand question and answer format, this "backgrounder" offers basic information on what RU486 is, how it works, how this chemical abortion technique got here, and why it poses such a threat to unborn children and their mothers.