French scientist behind an abortion pill dies at the age of 98

The French scientist who created the abortion pill died at the age of 98.

Etienne-émile Baulieu helped to develop the oral RU-486, also known as Mifepristone, which provided millions of women around the world with a safe and inexpensive alternative to surgical abortion.

Dr. Baulie died at his home in Paris on Friday, confirmed his widow in a statement.

Simone Harari Bauliev said: “His research is guided by his commitment to progress through science, his dedication to the freedom of women and his desire to enable everyone to live a better and longer life.”

French President Emmanuel Macron called Dr. Bauli “the bell of courage” and a “progressive mind that allowed women to win their freedom.”

“Few French have changed the world to such an extent,” he added in an X.

Aurore Berge, the Minister of Equality between the sexes of France, said that Dr. Baulie “has been guided throughout his life with one requirement: that of human dignity” in a publication of X.

Dr. Baulie was born Etienne Bloom on December 12, 1926 in Strasbourg. He changed his name to join the French resistance to the Nazi occupation when he was 15 years old.

After graduation, he travels to the United States, where he works with the man known as the father of the contraceptive pill, Dr. Gregory Pinkus. Dr. Pinkus advised him to focus on sexual hormones.

Back in France Dr. Baulie has designed a method to block the effect of the hormone progesterone – which is essential for implanting the egg into the uterus after fertilization.

While the abortion pill has been developed within 10 years, Dr. Bauli spent decades by pushing international governments to authorize the drug, although they face fierce criticism and sometimes threats of abortion opponents.

Approval for the sale of the pill in 1988 caused a return reaction, both in Europe and in the United States, where to this day remains a dispute between election campaigns and anti-aging.

While the use of the drug has been approved in over 100 countries worldwide, access to Mifepristone is still severely regulated or restricted in the US and several other countries.

In recent years, some abortion campaigns have also encouraged allegations that abortion drugs – throw as a “chemical abortion” – ineffective and dangerous, despite Medical authorities consistently say it is safe to use.

Following its approval in 2000, the US Food and Drug Administration reported a total of 26 deaths related to Mifepristone – a percentage of about 0.65 deaths per 100,000 abortions of drugs.

For comparison, the mortality rate associated with the usual use of aspirin is about 15.3 deaths per 100,000 aspirin users.

World Health Organization (WHO) added Mifepristone to its List of essential drugs In 2010

After Wyoming became the first country in the United States to ban the abortion pill in 2023, Dr. Baulie noted that he had spent much of his life trying to increase the “freedom of women”, adding that such bans were a step in the wrong direction.

His recent studies have involved an attempt to find a way to prevent the development of Alzheimer’s disease as well as the treatment of severe depression.

French President Macron presented Dr. Bauliev with the Grand Cross of the Legion of D’Anevir in 2023, saying: “You, a Jew and a member of the resistance, have been accumulated with the most insane insults and compared to Nazi scientists.

“But you behaved firmly, out of love for freedom and science.”