About 165 Planned Parenthood health centers will offer medical abortion with mifepristone in the next 12 months. You go the doctor or clinician and get information about the pills and how they work. You also have a medical exam. You sign a form saying you understand the information. Then you take the mifepristone.
Mifepristone blocks the hormone progesterone and stops the pregnancy.
You return to the clinician and take a medication called misoprostol. This drug starts your uterus cramping and expels the embryo . You return to the clinician for an examination to confirm that the abortion worked. Although mifepristone is new in the U.S., it's been used in France for 12 years and in the U.K. and Sweden for nearly as long. More than 600,000 women have used mifepristone to end pregnancy in Europe.