By Fr. Shenan J. Boquet, Human Life International - In the year 2000, the US FDA approved two chemical abortion drugs. The pair of drugs – mifepristone and misoprostol – are sometimes referred to as RU-486. Used in tandem, they reliably kill a preborn child: first, by starving the developing preborn child and causing it to detach from its mother’s uterus, and secondly by provoking contractions that expel the dead child... Since the FDA approved RU-486, millions of abortions have been performed using these drugs. ...