Doctor Claims RU-486 Can Cause Lethal Septic Shock
By Alexa Moutevelis
CNSNews.com Correspondent
August 04, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - A Brown University professor has issued fresh allegations about the dangers related to the abortion drug regimen RU-486, asserting that one of the ingredients - mifepristone -- can produce fatal septic shock in a woman in the course of ending her pregnancy.

Dr. Ralph P. Miech discusses the link between mifepristone, which is marketed in the U.S. as Mifeprex, and lethal septic shock in an article published in the September issue of "The Annals of Pharmacotherapy.

"RU-486 combines two drugs -- mifepristone and misoprostol - and allows women to chemically abort their unborn children at any time during the first seven weeks of pregnancy.

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