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Article: New pill backs up contraception // Controversial drug aborts pregnancy
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 21, 1986
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When Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu says "ovary," his French accent
makes it sound somehow more exotic than a mere reproductive organ.
"Ovaree," he says.
As it happens, Baulieu has had occasion to say "ovaree" many
times recently while here talking about the new birth control pill he
conceived and developed with the help of a French-based drug company.
The drug is called RU 486, which at this point is more code word than
marketable product. Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-Calif.) calls it a
"death pill," which gives some indication of the controversy the mere
prospect of this pill inspires.
The pill conditions a woman's uterus so that it stops a
fertilized human egg from implanting itself, and has ...