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Ask Meg Whitman Where She Stands on a Woman's Right to Choose

Keep Anti-Choice Extremism Out Of Health-Care Reform

Real Sex Ed: Is it in Your School?

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Choice Headlines

8/25/2010
NARAL Pro-Choice California featured on NBC Bay Area

8/16/2010
F.D.A. Approves 5-Day Emergency Contraceptive

8/5/2010
On New Laws Fighting Crisis Pregnancy Centers

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Press Releases

8/30/2010
NARAL Pro-Choice California PrivacyPAC Endorses Kamala Harris for California Attorney General

8/26/2010
Leading Women's Health Organizations Back Brown for Governor, Condemn Meg Whitman for Double Talk on Women's Privacy and Safety Issues

8/26/2010
Leading Women's Health Organizations Back Brown for Governor, Condemn Meg Whitman for Double Talk on Women's Privacy and Safety Issues

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RU 486 (Non-Surgical/Medical Abortion)

Modified: 07/10/2008

In 2000, the FDA approved RU 486 (also called mifepristone, non-surgical abortion, or medical abortion), giving American women the option to end an unintended pregnancy without surgery. Although millions of women have safely used RU 486 worldwide since 1981, anti-choice lawmakers and groups fought FDA approval every step of the way; having failed, they are now doing everything they can to make it difficult – or even impossible – to obtain. (RU 486 should not be confused with emergency contraception, also known as the "morning-after" pill, which is a basic form of birth control that prevents pregnancy and does not cause abortion.)

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