Abstract
A consecutive series of 360 women with pregnancies of up to 63 days of amenorrhoea requesting medical abortion were managed using a low-cost regimen of mifepristone (200 mg) followed by vaginal administration of misoprostol (800 mu g). Results in terms of complete abortion rate, continuing pregnancy rate and proportion of women aborting within six hours were similar to those described with the standard medical abortion regimen of mifepristone (600 mg) and gemeprost (1 mg). The reported regimen thus combines clinical effectiveness with costs which are lower than those associated with the standard treatment or with suction termination.