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Italy OKs RU-486; Vatican Threatens Excommunications

By M. Morris, Newser Staff

Posted Jul 31, 2009 1:37 PM CDT

(Newser) – Italy has legalized the abortion drug RU-486, drawing the ire of the Vatican, which threatened to excommunicate doctors who prescribe the medication and women who take it. A church official said using the pill is "a sin in a moral and juridical sense,"... Read full story »

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