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Bush's RU-486 distribution

Groups Renew Pressure to Bar RU-486
RU-486 has become a renewed target for influential pressure groups who want the Food and Drug Administration to suspend its use. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the pills in September 2000. Under the brand name Mifeprex, the pills are distributed by the New York-based Danco Laboratories LLC and sold only to doctors or other clinicians who are trained in their usage. They are now available through doctors' offices or clinics in every state. Since 2000, 280,000 women in the United States have made the choice to have nonsurgical abortions in the first seven to nine weeks of pregnancy. (Editor's note: In 2001, the Bush administration allowed the nationwide distribution and use of RU-486 under each States' existing abortion laws. RU-486 was approved under President Clinton and is being distributed by George W. Bush -- the biggest baby murdering President in the history of the United States.)

Problems After RU-486?
Call Attorney and Sue!
If you or someone you know has suffered physical injury or emotional harm from the use of the drug Mifepristone, also known as the "abortion pill" RU-486, or, the labor inducing drug Misoprostol also know as Cytotec, you may obtain emotional counseling, medical attention and/or legal assistance by contacting one of the following.

Flashback
Lawsuit Alleges Medical Malpractice in RU-486-Related Death
The abortion clinic that administered the drug RU-486 to a Tennessee woman allegedly failed to diagnose a life-threatening medical condition, resulting in her death, according to a malpractice lawsuit filed by the deceased woman's estate. Brenda A. Vise, a 38-year-old Hamilton County, Tenn. resident, died on Sept. 12, 2001, the lawsuit alleges, from a massive infection resulting from a ruptured ectopic (tubal) pregnancy, five days after she visited the Knoxville abortion clinic and began taking the RU-486 drug combination.

Teen Death From Abortion Pill Confirmed
ALAMEDA -- Alameda County Coroner's Office confirmed Friday that drug-induced abortion medication was the official cause of death for an 18-year-old Livermore woman who died Sept. 17 in Pleasanton. According to Deputy Coroner Frank Gentle, Holly Patterson's "therapeutic drug induced abortion" caused a condition called endomyometritis, an inflammation of the mucous membrane lining of the uterus.

A young woman has died recently from an RU 486 abortion
She was seven weeks and two days pregnant and is reported to have chosen to have a RU 486 abortion. One week after the meeting with the gynecologist, she returned to the hospital to take three 200 mg Mifegyne pills. Two days later she returned and received two 0,2 mg pills of Cytotec (Misoprostol) She took the medicine at 8.25 am. She was reported to have been very tired, felt sick and slept most of the time. Bleeding started in the afternoon at 3 pm and the patient received pain medication. At 4.30 pm the patient was able to return home after a "big blob" had "come out". A follow-up visit one month later was scheduled as she left the hospital.

State Cites Hospital for Not Reporting Woman's Death
LIVERMORE, Calif. - State health officials investigating the case of a young woman who died after a therapeutic drug-induced abortion found that the hospital failed to report the death as an unusual occurrence. The report by the California Department of Health Services also found that Planned Parenthood of Hayward, which prescribed the drug, didn't obtain 18-year-old Holly Patterson's signature on one of three forms required by the clinic. The review also found the clinic didn't give Patterson full information and education on how to administer the drug. Patterson died Sept. 17 of septic shock caused by an inflammation of the uterus.

Two British Women Die After Taking
Controversial New Abortion Pill
Two British women have died after taking the controversial abortion pill RU-486, the Government has admitted. Melanie Johnson, the public health minister, disclosed last week that since 1991, when the drug became available in Britain, the Committee on Safety of Medicines had received two reports of "suspected fatal reactions in association with the use of Mifegyne [RU-486]". She was replying to a parliamentary question by the Labour MP Jim Dobbin, the chairman of the Parliamentary all-party Pro-Life group.

Abortion Clinic Disputes Police in Probe of Woman's Death
Police in suburban Washington, D.C., are investigating the death of a woman who died while undergoing an unspecified "medical procedure," at a local abortion clinic, but the clinic is disputing the police account of the death. Alexandria, Va., police spokeswoman Amy Bertsch said authorities were continuing their inquiry into the death of a 26-year old woman who died earlier this month at the Landmark Women's Center in Alexandria. The woman, who was not identified, lived in nearby Fairfax, Va.

Six Women Using RU-486 Taken Ill, and Two Died, Letter Says
The company that makes the abortion pill RU-486 has sent a letter informing doctors that six women have developed serious illnesses and two have died after taking the drug to induce abortions. No causal relationship has been established between the drug and the illnesses in any of the cases, the letter said. Three women who took the drug, also known as mifepristone or Mifeprex, in combination with another drug called misoprostol to induce abortion later suffered bleeding caused by rupture of ectopic pregnancies, an abnormally located type of pregnancy that is not terminated by the drug treatment. One woman died.

Woman Dies in Canadian Abortion-Pill Testing
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - On Aug. 28, a woman entered an unidentified Canadian hospital and complained of severe abdominal cramping, bleeding, dizziness and weakness. She was participating in a trial of the chemical abortion cocktail RU-486 and had begun an abortion five days earlier. Three days later, she was dead.

Posted by Editor at June 22, 2004 05:05 AM