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Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Who Developed the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98

He became an advocate of a woman’s right to choose and once said, “It is always tragic when politics takes the most vulnerable hostage — in this case, women.”

© Julie Glassberg for The New York Times

Étienne-Émile Baulieu at his home in Paris in 2022. His development in the early 1980s of the synthetic steroid RU-486, or mifepristone, thrust him onto the public stage.
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