A woman with a tubal pregnancy could take the drug, bleed, think she had passed everything and then suddenly rupture a tube. This is potentially fatal. Sometimes she will pass parts of the baby at home. Firm instructions are that she must save whatever passes in a jar, and bring it to the doctor to see if everything is out. In a surgical abortion, she rarely sees the pieces.
Many women getting abortions are very ambivalent.
I have no choice. Anyhow they are doing this to me. With RU 486, she swallows the pills and does it to herself. More research needs to be done on this, but indications are that Post-Abortion Syndrome will be at least as common from this method as from surgery. At least one woman has died.