Abortion pill: four users, eight victims - Health officials are investigating the health risks of RU-486.
"We should be just as concerned about women's safety as we are about their rights," said Wendy Wright, senior policy director for Concerned Women for America, which has been working to get the drug prohibited. "I've been stunned by the comments … that some women have to pay the price of death so that women can have abortions."
LifeNews reports
As the Centers for Disease Control investigates why four California women have died after using the abortion drug RU 486, new details are emerging about one woman's recent death. All of the deaths appear to have involved infections brought on by the mifepristone abortion drug and misuse of the abortion pills by Planned Parenthood.HT: Choose Life
Update: Michelle Malkin adds,
Interesting that the usual crowd of pharmaceutical-bashers, who undoubtedly would have lobbied for any other drug with such health outcomes to be pulled, have nothing to say about these deaths.The silence of women's health advocates is even more damning.
Here's an important point to raise now that the mainstream media are paying attention to the RU-486 deaths: Chanelle Bryant got her abortion drugs at Family Planning Associates Medical Group, a National Abortion Federation member facility. Chanelle's death brings to a round dozen the number of women that I know of who have died after FPA abortions.
FPA is not a fly-by-night abortion mill. It's the single largest for-profit chain of abortion facilities in the US, and they're members of what's supposed to be a self-policing organization that offers referrals to "safe" abortions at facilities that only meet the highest standards of care.
We need to really get this information out. For more, see my blog entry here and follow the links.