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...Plan B, or the morning-after pill, is not the same as the "abortion pill," RU-486, which is used to terminate an existing pregnancy without surgical intervention. The morning-after pill is essentially a combination of a certain type of birth-control pills that proponents say interrupts the chain of events leading up to a pregnancy. It works only within a very brief time frame following unprotected sex or sexual assaults, but provides women with a safe, virtually side effect-free way to insure against pregnancy. In the unlikely event that the pill fails and a pregnancy occurs anyway...
Coley said UHS aims to reach a decision on the administration of RU-486 within the next month...
Legal in Europe since 1988 and approved by the Federal Drug Association on Sept. 29, 2000, RU-486 works by inducing a miscarriage and requires three different visits to a doctor over a two-week period...
From a financial standpoint, Coley said he expects that RU-486 would be covered in the same way as any other means of abortion...
...added that UHS also wants to develop a clear education plan regarding RU-486, such as the one that currently accompanies the "morning-after pill...