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Core Concepts in Health, 9/e
Paul M. Insel, Stanford University School of Medicine
Walton T. Roth, Stanford University School of Medicine

Abortion

Chapter 7 in the News links

Mifepristone: A Tangled Web of Medicine and Politics

(See the In the News box on p. 185 in your text.)


For more information and a variety of perspectives on mifepristone, visit the following sites. Note: Some of these sites are sponsored by groups that have a clear agenda or point of view; use your critical thinking skills when evaluating information from these sites.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez National Library of Medicine: PubMed (Search for findings from recent medical research studies.)

http://www.agi-usa.org Alan Guttmacher Institute

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/drh/surv_abort.htm CDC's Abortion Surveillance page

http://cc.org Christian Coalition of America

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/mifepristone Food and Drug Administration: Mifepristone Information

http://www.gallup.com/poll/Indicators/indabortion.asp Gallup's Abortion Issues page

http://report.kff.org/repro Kaiser Family Foundation: Daily Reproductive Health Report

http://www.earlyoptionpill.com Mifeprex (mifepristone) Web site

http://www.naral.org/index.html National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League

http://www.nrlc.org National Right to Life Committee

http://www.plannedparenthood.org/ABORTION/Default.htm Planned Parenthood: Abortion Information

http://www.popcouncil.org/rhfp/abortion.html Population Council: Abortion

http://www.rhtp.org/early/early.htm Reproductive Health Technologies Project: Early Abortion

http://www.rpcc.org Republican Pro-Choice Coalition

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0035/lerner.shtml Village Voice (article from August 2000 that includes a chronology of events relating to mifepristone)