Groups Say Politics Put RU 486 on the Shelf ... and Politics Keeping It There
By Rusty Pugh and Jody Brown
May 16, 2006

(AgapePress) - A women's pro-life group says pro-abortion forces and the maker of a dangerous abortion pill don't want the product pulled from the market, even while medical evidence against it mounts. Meanwhile, a government corruption watchdog group says it has proof the Clinton administration inappropriately used its political prowess to put the drug on the shelf in the first place.

A public workshop sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was held in Atlanta last week in response to the deaths of more women being attributed to the abortion drug RU 486 or to complications from taking the drug, marketed in the U.S. under the name MifeprexÒ. Scientists exited the meeting in disagreement, some calling for the drug to be pulled from the market entirely, some saying the drug enables a deadly bacterial infection found in the women, and still others declaring such conclusions are at best premature.

Attendees at the meeting included Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America. Wright says RU 486 is known to cause a deadly bacterial infection that is 100 percent fatal to women who contract it. It is shameful, she says, that the drug has not been pulled from the shelves. the rest