At present, if a woman chooses to have an abortion, she almost always has a surgical procedure. However, a new French medication called RU 486 is now being used to bring about abortion in very early pregnancy. The abortion pill, as it is commonly called, has had a revolutionary effect on birth control, but has raised a lot of controversy by pro-life and anti-choice advocates since its creation in 1980. The moral debate on the use and legalization of Ru-486 is considered a very "hot" topic today.
             In a woman's body, the natural hormone known as progesterone is essential for establishing and maintaining a pregnancy. RU 486 is the first of a new generation of birth control drugs called "anti- antiprogestins;" an antagonist of progesterone. It is administered in the form of two pills taken in the time span of two days. This antagonist destroys and reduces the progesterone levels in a woman's body so that the baby is miscarried. The pill creates a condition to which the body would naturally abort the baby. This creates the advantage of a non-surgical abortion. The abortion pill can only be used within the first nine weeks of pregnancy, before the progesterone levels are too strong to abort. (http://www.cbctrust.com/RU486.96, Internet)
             Though the pill is already in use in some countries around the globe, pro-life and anti-choice activists continue to refute its use. They protest and rally against abortion during political campaigns, at abortion clinics, and in television and newspaper reports claiming abortion to be murder. Other activists dispute the pill on a religious front. They claim that man has no right to play god, and that the Bible says it is wrong. They both
             believe that aborting a pregnancy is the same as killing a fully developed baby, or a fully developed adult.
             A new question has emerged as a result of these disputes: when does life begin? Pro-life and anti-choice advocates claim
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