Tuesday, April 18, 2006

R U fed up yet?



U.S. Representatives Call for Movement on Bill to Pull Abortion Pill
Amelia Wigton
April 13, 2006


Why is RU-486, the abortion pill, still on the market?

This week, a jury in New Jersey awarded $4.5 million in damages to a man who was found to have suffered a heart attack after taking the arthritis drug Vioxx.

In late March, Bausch and Lomb pulled its lens solution from shelves and launched an investigation

to determine why customers contracted a rare fungal infection from using it.

While rapid response has followed these drug complications, at least seven women have died from taking RU-486, and the dangerous drug is still available for purchase.

Concerned Women for America (CWA) has diligently lobbied against RU-486 since its release because it ends the lives of the unborn and poses a grave health threat to the women who take it.

“The FDA has pulled other drugs that have caused fewer deaths and less severe complications than RU-486,” said Wendy Wright, President of CWA. “Why the double-standard for an abortion drug that is now linked to the deaths of seven healthy women and over 800 other reported complications?”



Full story at Concerned Women for America





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