Abortion pill is rarely used by U.S. women, report says 01/21/2003 By SHERRY JACOBSON / The Dallas Morning News American women seeking to end a pregnancy have been slow to use the so-called abortion pill, according to the first report issued since the drug's approval more than two years ago. About 37,000 women used mifepristone, or RU-486, to end a pregnancy in the first half of 2001, said Lawrence B. Finer, assistant director of research for the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit company that tracks U.S. abortion trends. "It represents about 6 percent of the total abortions in that...