An existing Planned Parenthood facility does not do surgical abortions but does provide RU-486, a drug used to abort babies through nine weeks of gestation. The head of the local abortion clinic said there were no plans for surgical abortions at the new facility in the near future.

But Stacy Dunn of the Knoxville County chapter of Tennessee Right to Life tells OneNewsNow her organization is skeptical.

"So when we saw the plans for the proposed facility, we saw plans for four to six exam rooms and a recovery room, which indicated to us that the building would have the capability at some point to be used to do surgical abortions also," she explains...

ROME – Italy has approved the use of the abortion drug RU-486, drawing fierce protests by the Vatican.

The drug, which terminates pregnancy by causing the embryo to detach from the uterine wall, is already available in several other European countries. But approval in Italy had been held up so far by the Catholic Church, which opposes abortion and contraception...

(CNSNews.com) – Pro-life groups are hailing last week’s ruling from the Ohio Supreme Court, which said abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood must strictly comply with FDA rules for administering the abortion-inducing drug mifepristone, also known as RU 486.

Planned Parenthood challenged a 2004 Ohio law requiring that the abortion pill be restricted to women who are no more than 49 days’ pregnant.

The Ohio law says abortionists must abide by the rules approved by the FDA when it first made RU-486 available in the United States in September 2000...