1.   Both drugs are still offered on an experimental basis, neither one having approval from the Food and Drug Administration for commercial use to induce abortions.

2.   Abortifacients are drugs or devices that induce abortion.

3.   Alternative-medicine enthusiasts tout the extract as a natural way to induce abortion.

4.   Doctors have known for years that the methotrexate-misoprostol combination can be used to induce abortions.

5.   In the meantime, some doctors have been using a cancer chemotherapy, methotrexate, to induce abortions.

6.   Many experts are advising women to wait for the results of bigger studies and perhaps even for explicit FDA approval for using the drugs to induce abortions.

7.   Mifepristone induces abortions by blocking progesterone, a hormone necessary to sustain a pregnancy.

8.   On her first visit, Brigham inserted materials called laminaria strips in her uterus to induce an abortion, according to the allegations against him.

9.   Pennyroyal is not the only herb with a reputation for inducing abortions.

10.   She tried swallowing laundry detergent, herbal concoctions and various pills, but nothing she tried induced an abortion.