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The RU-486 Abortion pill has been linked to the death of another North American woman, this time a teenage Californian. A tragic and unexpected loss…

( MCNS)—California teen Holly Patterson, 18, died last Wednesday after taking the RU-486 abortion pill obtained from a local Planned Parenthood clinic in Hayward.

According to family statements made to the media, a physician at Pleasanton’s Valley Care Medical Center said Patterson died of septic shock—a severe bacterial infection.

“The doctor told me she had fragments of the fetus still left in her uterus and that caused the infection,” said Monty Patterson, Holly’s father.

Patterson’s death marks at least the seventh woman in North America who has died after taking the drug that the FDA approved in 2000 as “safe and effective.”

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