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             many women report feeling "less guilty" about medical abortion. some even say it feels more like bringing on a late period or taking the morning-after pill than having an abortion.
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             Western medicine's first approved nonsurgical abortion method, RU-486-which is also known as mifepristone-is in many ways a successor to the teas and tinctures women have used for centuries. (For a look at an underground abortion drug, see "The Star Pill.") When taken with misoprostol, an ulcer medication that's already approved and available in the United States, RU-486 blocks the hormone that gets the body ready for pregnancy; within hours after a woman takes the two pills (one 24 hours after the other), the lining of the uterus breaks down and the pregnancy ends. But, because it works from the very earliest stages into the seventh week, many see RU-486 as a method that can prevent preg
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