The controversial history of Mifepristone, from idea, to FDA approval, to its threatened suspension.
has shown the medication to be safe and overwhelmingly effective. But advocates on either side of the abortion debate in the United States have been at war over access to the drug since its development in France more than three decades ago.Roe v. Wade. A decision in their favor could at least temporarily make it difficult, if not impossible, for Americans to access the drug at a time when medication-induced abortions have surpassed surgeries as the most common way to end a pregnancy.
The idea was a success, and clinical trials for the pill, known then as RU-486, began in Switzerland in 1982. Eighty-five of the 100 women who took the drug had complete abortions, according to a That September, French authorities cleared the drug for use up to seven weeks of pregnancy. The decision was met with protests, boycott threats and violence from antiabortion extremists, who at one point set fire to a Paris movie theater. Within weeks of approval, Roussel-Uclaf reversed course and pulled the drug.
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