After the abortion pill RU-486, seen by women as a godsend, was approved in Taiwan at the end of 2000, online and brick-and-mortar retailers flooded the market with contraband pills. Untold numbers of women began to buy RU-486 directly from retailers, without a prescription from their gynecologist. In these circumstances, statistics are impossible to come by.
二○○○年底，被譽為是女性一大福音的口服墮胎藥── RU486 在台灣合法上市之後，市面上、網路上此類墮胎藥品水貨充斥，未經婦產科診治，私自買藥服用的人數，更是無從統計。