NPR's Margot Adler reports that the European manufacturer of the abortion pill RU-486 decided to stop prouduction today and gave the European production rights to a new company. Roussel Uclaf, which is owned by Hoechst AG, abandoned the effort to sell RU-486 in the United States several years ago, due to anti-abortion groups threats of a boycott of the company. The company gave rights to manufacture the pill in the United States to the Population Council in New York.
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