LifeSite, being a dishonest single-issue advocacy organization, always neglects to mention some important facts about this case. Holly had been bleeding heavily and in severe pain for several days -- all symptoms which she would certainly have been told to look out for and seek immediate medical attention for (not that anyone in their right mind would need to be told that such symptoms require prompt medical attention, regardless of whether one had taken any drug or undergone any procedure). She sought medical attention early on, but failed to tell doctors that she had taken RU-486 or been pregnant, and left the hospital. Her symptoms continued to worsen and she did not seek medical attention again. When her father found her writhing and crying in pain at his house, she lied and told him she just had bad menstrual cramps. Then she departed for her boyfriend's house to spend the night (she was 18 -- nothing her father could have done to stop her). The boyfriend finally took her to the hospital in the middle of night, when things had gotten much worse, but it was too late.
This girl died from stupidity, not from RU-486. Any number of medications and/or the underlying conditions for which they are prescribed, can produce bad complications, which can be fatal if not treated. If you go to your doctor with a severe infection, and s/he prescribes an anitbiotic, warning you that it may not work, and that if your symptoms worsen, you need to get to a hospital quickly, and then you fail to go to a hospital as your symptoms worsen for days on end, and you finally die, your relatives have no business suing the maker of the antibiotic or the doctor who prescribed it.
The precise mode of Holly's death was absolutely identical to that associated with untreated complications of natural miscarriage. Who does LifeSite want to see sued when a girl who doesn't want to tell anyone she's pregnant, dies because she refuses to seek medical attention after she miscarries and develops severe complications?
The death of this beautiful young woman is squarely on the feet of the anti-life warriors who will continue to propagate the lie that this is a quick, safe way to end a pregnancy in the quiet of your own home without the embarrassment of a clinic or surgical abortion.
It's precisely for this reason -- fear of being found out, and the strong possibility that a young girl will not seek help for complications -- that a drug with potentially fatal known side effects shouldn't be given.
Remember the '60's and '70's -- when all the pro-abortion propaganda focused on young women being aborted (and dying) from hatchet jobs by illegal practitioners? Some of them bled to death because they didn't want anyone -- usually their parents -- to know they were pregnant.
Of course, abortion is such a major industry nowadays, the practitioners could care less about the mental state of a teenager, and the fact that there is no adult present to supervise the patient.
I hope this death haunts the doctor who prescribed the drug, but I'm not holding my breath.