'Abortion pill' RU 486: ethics, rhetoric, and social practice.
RU 486, an experimental drug to terminate early pregnancy, raises again the fundamental questions about the status of the early embryo: What are the morally relevant similarities and differences among contraception, early abortion and late abortion? And how does language affect both our social practices and attitudes concerning those social practices?
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Boston College, MA.
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D000019:Abortifacient Agents; D000021:Abortifacient Agents, Steroidal; D004963:Estrenes; D015735:Mifepristone