Shortly after her 18th birthday Holly Patterson took Mifeprex (RU-486), reports Austin Ruse of the Culture of Life Foundation. She experienced terrible pain, heavy bleeding and cramps. Three days later she returned to the hospital, where she subsequently died.

The autopsy revealed that her death was "due to endomyometritis (inflammation)" caused by "therapeutic, drug-induced abortion."

According to Ruse, the FDA has received 676 reports of problems in relation to the drug. These reports include 72 cases of blood loss requiring blood transfusions and seven cases of serious infection.

On Nov. 15 the FDA strengthened the warning label in order to protect women who might not know some of the dangers of this drug.

Meanwhile, in September of 2004, Planned Parenthood literature offered assurances that more than 280,000 American women have used the drug in the past four years, adding: "Millions more have used it worldwide under other brand names. Overwhelmingly, women have praised mifepristone as a safe, noninvasive, and private way to end an unintended pregnancy."

The pro-abortion group blasted "anti-choice ideologues and organizations [that] continue to deny mifepristone's safety and efficacy, despite scientific proof to the contrary."

A spokesman for abortion pill manufacturer Danco Laboratories insisted that "no causal relationship between the use of the Mifeprex regimen and the unfortunate death of Ms. Patterson has been established."

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