| 11. | Opponents, including the Vatican, contend emergency contraception is early abortion, and oppose teen-age access to the pills.
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| 12. | The procedure is highly controversial and some patients and doctors consider it unethical, a form of early abortion.
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| 13. | Studies have shown this combination to have been effective 95 percent of the time in producing early abortions.
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| 14. | Opponents, including the Vatican, say emergency contraception is early abortion and oppose access to the pills by teen-agers.
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| 15. | In 1996, the FDA declared RU-486, now known by its chemical name mifepristone, safe and effective for early abortion.
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| 16. | With these very early abortions, we're talking about a whole gestational sac that's the size of a matchstick head.
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| 17. | As a result, Catholic leaders said they hoped it may awaken voters who may have thought early abortions were the issue.
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| 18. | So far, 23 Planned Parenthood affiliates have begun offering very early abortions, many of them just in the last few months.
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| 19. | Technically, very early abortions are much the same as what was known as menstrual extraction in the days before abortion was legal.
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| 20. | While studies show mifepristone is 92 percent to 95 percent effective in causing early abortion, some women need surgical abortion to finish the job.
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