SO WHAT'S A LITTLE COLLATERAL DAMAGE?:

Article to kindle abortion pill fight: Report on deaths may hike pressure on FDA to curb sales (Diedtra Henderson, December 1, 2005, Boston Globe)

An article in today's New England Journal of Medicine could increase pressure on the Food and Drug Administration to restrict the sale of abortion pills associated with four fatal infections in California.

The FDA in September 2000 approved Mifeprex -- also called RU-486 and known generically as mifepristone. It is used with a second drug, misoprostol, to induce early-stage abortions.

But as early as 1992, scientists warned mifepristone could make women vulnerable to massive bacterial infections. Some doctors have routinely defied FDA recommendations by advising women to administer misoprostol vaginally. Some researchers say that could transport bacteria near the uterus, where they can grow unchecked.

Today's article says four young, otherwise healthy women in California died from such bacterial infections soon after using RU-486 and misoprostol.

You mean abortionists don't care about the women? Shocking.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 1, 2005 7:59 AM