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Farewell to the creator of the abortion pill

Professor Étienne-Émile Baulieu and his team present in Paris the first results of a new line of research on brain diseases, especially Alzheimer's.
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Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French scientist who invented the abortion pill, has died at the age of 98. The researcher helped develop the oral medication RU-486, also known as mifepristone, which has provided millions of women around the world with a safe alternative to surgical abortion.

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