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By Hilary White

LONDON, February 16, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A study is being undertaken by the UK government to decide whether RU-486 can be used at home “safely.”

The pilot project may lead the public health service to adopt the deadly abortion pill, the euphemism for which is “medical abortions” to distinguish from surgical abortions, for those women seeking abortions before 12 weeks gestation.

A Department of Health spokesman said to the Nursing Standard journal, the results had not yet been evaluated. “No changes to the way abortions are carried out will be approved unless we are content that there is no risk to the women’s safety.”

RU-486 is under review now in the US with the Food and Drug Administration investigating hundreds of cases of death or serious complications. Abortion promoters are pushing to have the restrictions lifted in Australia. The drug is banned in Italy and the Italian government is under constant pressure to legalise it.

Abortion providers in the UK who are engaged in the study claim that the drug is perfectly safe while the company that manufactures it admits to five deaths of women associated with use of the drug.