Abortion Pill Will No Longer Be Distributed in Germany

Berlin, Germany -- Femagen Arzneimittel, distributors of the abortion pill Mifegyne, said the danger abortion drug will be pulled from the German market at the end of the year due to poor sales. A Femagen spokesperson said that too few abortion practitioners were using the dangerous drug, since abortion practitioners receive higher payments from the government for surgical abortions than for prescribing the RU 486 drug. Reimbursement for Mifegyne did not cover abortion practitioners' costs to administer the dangeorus drug, leading to low demand and "heavy losses" for Femagen. Mifegyne was introduced in Germany in November 1999, following "years of debate about the ethics" of the abortion pill. Exelgyn, the abortion pill's French manufacturer, is undecided on whether it will continue to make the dangerous abortion drug available through another distributor.