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...common yet radical suggestion is that RU 486 and prostaglandin could be sold to women as prescription drugs and taken at home. "To even suggest that you could do that is ridiculous," protests Judie Brown, president of the American Life League. That sentiment finds some support even from Baulieu. He opposes distribution by prescription because of what he calls "the cousin syndrome" -- the woman for whom the drug was prescribed might pass it on to a cousin or friend, who has not had a gynecological exam. In rare cases, that woman may be having undetected problems, such as a tubal...
...Baulieu does, however, believe the pill could be administered by gynecologists outside of a clinic environment. He supports the "two-visit" plan: the woman is examined, takes the first set of pills, goes home, takes the second two days later, and returns to the doctor to make sure the process has been completely effective. Advocates of this method make two assumptions about the woman: that she will have the emotional fortitude to go through an experience on her own, and that she will get to a hospital if she becomes one of the rare cases where there is excess bleeding...
...woman takes the first set of pills but neglects the second, and her pregnancy comes to term, the child will be normal. For years RU 486 opponents have warned of Thalidomide-like tragedies, "the absence of hands, a foot grown out of a knee," as one spokesman put it. Baulieu and other informed advocates argue that this is chemically impossible; that in the handful of known cases where RU 486 did not stop pregnancy, the children born were all healthy...
...process could be as simple as Baulieu and Randall suggest, private physicians, who have shunted off the majority of abortions on clinics, might be willing to perform them again. "I think a lot more private physicians would quietly give RU 486 in their practices," says Susan Hill, head of the National Women's Health Network. "It wouldn't happen overnight, but if they felt it was safe and they weren't going to be protested every day, I think they would start offering it to their patients . . . It's a lot easier to protest 400 clinics than 10,000 doctors...
...Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of RU 486, and his French colleagues describe the successful tests of the no-injection method in the New England Journal of Medicine. "This new regimen," they conclude, "is simpler and potentially allows greater privacy than any other abortion method." In a tough accompanying editorial, the Journal brands efforts to block use of the drug in the U.S. a "disgrace...