Why opposing the abortifacient doesn't help the pro-life cause. Opposition to RU-486 generally focuses on two, contradictory contentions. All abortion procedures have some element of danger, and RU-486 is neither remarkably safe nor remarkably unsafe.
Women are, for now, so constituted that the right thing to do is also the healthy thing to do.
We should not hastily tamper with such a remarkable confluence of goods. The term connotes a moral neutrality typical of any other medical procedure. Going to an abortion doctor, the pro-choice camp believes, should be just as convenient and just as morally significant as going to an eye doctor. One of the benefits of RU-486 is that it removes doctors from the equation, so they are no longer implicated. The easier it is to get an abortion in the early stages of a pregnancy, the more inexcusable it becomes to seek one near the end.