Is serious infection common following mifepristone medical abortion?
No, serious infection following medical abortion is rare. Approximately 600,000 women in the U.S. have used mifepristone for medical abortion since the year 2000, when the FDA approved mifepristone. The proportion of all reported infections among women during the first 18 months of mifepristone use was low at 0.013%.7 Overwhelmingly, infections reported following use are not serious and are treated with a single course of oral antibiotics in an outpatient setting.
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