Woman goes to clinic, gets pelvic exam. Woman returns to clinic to take three RU-486 tablets. It must be administered in conjunction with another abortifacient chemical whose primary action is strong uterine contractions. The significance of this is that Prostaglandins are a steroidal class of chemicals that of themselves, have serious side-effect profiles. If the abortion does not occur during the wait at the clinic, woman returns home to wait for baby to be expelled from womb.
Woman returns to clinic for another exam to make sure abortion was complete.
Nausea Diarrhea The long term side-effect profile has neither been studied nor is it known. Because of the nature of this potent steroidal based chemical. Psychologically and morally, the trauma lasts indefinitely in most women. This time when a woman first becomes aware that she is pregnant is when she is most vulnerable to the abortion rhetoric. The panic from the discovery of an unwanted pregnancy brings about hasty but irreversible decisions, even greater than with surgical abortion, the source of serious future trauma.