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Abortion Drug Kills Girl in Portugal, Caused Deadly Infection

The dangerous RU 486 (mifepristone) abortion drug has caused yet another death in Europe by subjecting a 16-year-old girl in Portugal to a deadly infection that claimed her life. The infection is the same as one that took the lives of several women in the United States, who used the abortion pill.

The Portuguese girl in question died after an abortion with the RU 486 abortion drug caused Clostridium sordellii septic shock. Although girls have died in European nations - the United Kingdom, France and Sweden - from using the abortion drug, this represents the first case of the rare but deadly infection claiming the life of someone taking the abortion pill as happened in the United States.

The information about the abortion death came in the abstract of a study accepted for publication and submitted to the recent 21st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) conference held from May 7-10 in Milan, Italy. The dead involved the teenage girl from Portugal using mifepristone and misoprostol to cause an abortion of her unborn child.

Monty Patterson, the father of Holly Patterson, one of a handful of women in the United States to have died after developing the infection following usage of the abortion drug, says the death of the Portuguese girl makes it clear the dangerous nature of the abortion drug is a worldwide problem.

"This may be the first reported global case that needs to be further investigated as part of the ongoing review of C. Sordellii medical abortion deaths that includes my daughter, Holly Patterson and others in the United States and Canada," he told LifeNews.com.

In July 2009, the European maker of the abortion drug told Italian officials that it has killed dozens of women in Europe alone and that the total number of known worldwide deaths from the abortion drug - thought to be about 15 - is much higher. At the time, European abortion drug maker Exelgy told the Italian Pharmaceuticals Agency (AIFA) that 29 women have died from it. Ref. Source 5

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I used to have a strong opposition against abortion but slowly I think I am changing my views. News like this one (the girl dying because of a drug) worries me a lot. If abortion was legal, proper procedures (including drugs) could be put to use without risking the person's life.