New numbers from the Food and Drug Administration show that 22 women have died after taking the abortion cocktail RU-486.

RU-486 is the name for the drugs women are given for a chemical abortion.

Alison Centofante of pro-life group Live Action says it's a lethal cocktail of two separate drugs.

"They take one pill in person and that ends the life of the child," she explains, "and then 24 to 48 hours later a woman takes another pill, and that causes cramps and contractions. They expel the baby."

Abortionists generally prescribe the dose anytime during the first trimester of the pregnancy. But Centofante says abortions are so-called "off label" use for the two drugs, meaning they were developed for completely unrelated illnesses, so abortionists are playing fast and loose with the details.

"The pro-abortion movement has tried to change the regimen," she warns. "Now different physicians are doing it differently, administering this at different times, different lengths. And obviously, the further along in the pregnancy, the more chances of failure."

The drug cocktail has accounted for 22 deaths and thousands of hospitalizations since being introduced in 2000 but the abortion lobby pushes to expand the dangerous drug.

"Right now," advises Centofante, "states like California are pushing even college campuses to give their students the abortion pill."

Women deserve to know more facts about the dangerous drug and a good place to start, says Centofante, is the website Abortionprocedures.com.

The first video on the website describes RU486.