What is the chance of the Medical Abortion Procedure (RU 486) working if it fails the first time?
The abortion pill procedure has a 94 to 99 percent success rate. No one knows why the procedure is not 100 percent effective. When patients return and either have an incomplete abortion or a failed abortion, they are offered more Misoprostol tablets to take as our experience shows that there is high percentage of success with the second dosage. If the patient decides that she does not want to take the Misoprostol tablets, then we proceed with the surgical abortion.
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