Doctor Claims RU-486 Can Cause Lethal Septic Shock

RU-486 is a chemical abortifacient used to take the life of an unborn child in the privacy of one's home. If this wasn't bad enough, a Brown University professor claims that one of the drug's ingredients - mifepristone -- can produce fatal septic shock in a woman in the course of ending her pregnancy. CNS News has the story:

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."

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Miech told Cybercast News Service that he is certain "it is the RU-486 that weakens the innate immune system that allows the bacteria to grow and multiply and secrete its toxins and cause septic shock."