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Chemical Abortion Archives


April 14, 2008

Abortion Drug Used to Spike Drink

It's happened again, a chemical abortifacient dropped into a young girl's drink. In this case, the abortifacient was one designed for animals. Police in Blair County, Pennsylvania are still looking for the culprit and are treating the case as an...

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December 21, 2007

Emergency Contraception Isn't

In this brief story in The Hindu, an Indian news service, Dr. Hema Divakar, Chairperson of the Federation of Obsteric and Gynecological Societies in India, decries the number of women who die each year because of legal but unsafe abortions....

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December 4, 2007

Catholic Hospitals Forced into Endangering Preborn Babies: Is Your State Next?

In the wake of Connecticut's tyrannical law that requires even Catholic hospitals to provide "emergency contraception" (i.e. abortifacient drugs) to rape victims, Rev. Deacon Tom Davis argues that pro-life advocates in other states should begin preparing even now for the...

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September 16, 2007

The Forgotten Cost of "Choice"

The stories of each of the women named in that montage on YouTube come from court documents, medical journal articles, autopsy reports, news stories, and online sources. The dates range from the 19th century to the 21st century. The...

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August 22, 2007

Dueling Urban Legends: Safety and Less Abortions With Plan B
and...

...Plan B As "Loss Leader" for Planned Parenthood and The Rich Get Richer (But It Ain't Who You Think) Point One: Check back here on this blog in oh, about, August 2027, when there will have been enough longitudinal evidence...

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May 7, 2007

RU ready for an investigation of RU-486?

Last week, the US Senate unanimously approved SC Republican Jim DeMint's amendment to the FDA reauthorization bill stating the agency must have risk assessment and solution strategies in place with the manufacturer of RU-486 within seven months after the...

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January 5, 2007

Personhood and Planned Parenthood

By Jim Sedlak January 5, 2007 It is a very simple concept. It is logical. With everything we now know, given the advances in technology, it is the only position that makes sense: The terms `human person' and `human...

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August 24, 2006

Anti-contraception Group Calls FDA's Plan B Decision Irresponsible

NEW YORK, Aug. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- The No Room for Contraception campaign issued the following statement regarding today’s Plan B decision by the FDA. Ruben Obregon, President of the campaign, said “This scheme is irresponsible at best – as...

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Morning-After Pill Decision Throws Women's Health Concerns to the Wind

The FDA’s decision to allow the morning-after pill to be sold over-the-counter to people ages 18 and up could have devastating effects on women’s health and cause an increase in STD rates, according to Care Net, a network of 975...

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A flagrant disregard for the health and safety of women

Kimberly Zenarolla, executive vice president of the National Pro-Life Action Center (NPLAC)—the uncompromising voice of pro-life America on Capitol Hill—has issued the following statement regarding today’s decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to allow over-the-counter (OTC) sales of...

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Over-the-Counter Sales of Powerful Drug Puts Women's Lives in Jeopardy

Wisconsin Right to Life is deeply concerned that over the counter sales of Plan B without any physician oversight will put women's lives and health in jeopardy. According to Wisconsin Right to Life Executive Director Barbara Lyons, "The drug is...

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FRC News

August 24, 2006- Thursday FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 24, 2006 CONTACT: J.P. Duffy or Bethanie Swendsen, (866) FRC-NEWS Washington, D.C. - Today the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Barr Laboratory's application for over-the-counter status of the drug Plan B...

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The OTC Chemical Abortion Decision

The Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, issued the following response to today’s announcement by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that it has approved the over-the-counter sale of Plan B, so-called emergency contraception, to anyone 18...

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FDA Scheme for 'Plan B' is Medically and Legally Questionable

WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 /Christian Newswire/ -- The nation's largest faith- based association of doctors today issued a statement opposing the FDA's decision to allow "emergency contraception" to be purchased without a physician's prescription and oversight, with the intended exception of...

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FRC Reviews Legal Options After FDA's Plan B Decision

Washington, D.C. - Today the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Barr Laboratory's application for over-the-counter status of the drug Plan B for women over the age of 18. Family Research Council (FRC) President Tony Perkins released the following statement:...

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FDA Oversteps Authority by Approving Non-Prescription Access to Morning-After Pill

Concerned Women for America (CWA) strongly opposes today’s decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve Plan B, the morning-after pill, as a non-prescription drug. This decision allows anyone over 18 to purchase the drug without a prescription,...

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July 8, 2006

Shaking their fists at Governor Owens

True to their absolutely wicked agenda of child killing at all costs, Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood had their “KILL PILL THRILL DAY” Plan B give-away all over Colorado June 30, 2006....

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June 6, 2006

The FDA and Abortion Pill Documents

Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) failed to provide adequate explanations for...

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May 24, 2006

'Reproductive health care' is disguised bigotry against the poor

By Bill Beckman Promoters of the right to "reproductive health care" (a code phrase that includes abortion) are identified as the protectors of women’s health. The Pro-Life community’s rejection of abortion, opposition to abortifacient contraceptives, concern that "safe sex" is...

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May 15, 2006

Killing Poor Children

Last week Judicial Watch issued its stunning report on President Bill Clinton’s promotion of RU-486. The packet includes an unbelievable letter written to Clinton by Ron Weddington, the co-counsel in Roe v. Wade (note: this is reported on by Lifenews)...

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May 12, 2006

A Seventh Fatality

During meetings about the safety of the RU-486 abortion drug, Centers for Disease Control officials revealed a seventh woman has died from a drug-based abortion. Stunning to be sure. LifeNews has the story. Monty Patterson, one of the fathers of...

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RU-486 Controversy and the Atlanta Conference

By Dave Andrusko Today's News and Views, National Right to Life "Worried about a bacterial infection that led to the deaths of at least five [actually at least six] women who took the abortion pill RU-486, scientists from the nation's...

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May 11, 2006

Pro-Life Group Urges Removal of RU-486 from the Market

National Pro-Life Action Center (NPLAC) renewed its plea to remove RU-486 (also know as Mifeprex and Mifepristone) from the market in response to news that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will hold a high-profile meeting today about deadly side-effects...

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RU-486 is not safe for women

By Randall K. O'Bannon, Ph.D. National Right to Life director of Education & Research There are some who have been suggesting that people look at the vaginal self-administration of the prostaglandin, the second drug in the process, as the most...

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Panel Considers RU-486 Today

The abortion pill known as RU-486 will be in the spotlight on today as U.S. health officials meet to discuss an outbreak of rare bacterial infections across the country, including a handful of cases in women who took the pill....

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May 10, 2006

Pressuring the FDA to Approve the 'Morning After Pill'

Ann Scheidler hits the nail on the head in her statement regarding the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' plan to push the morning after pill:"The ACOG 'Ask Me' campaign is aimed at pressuring the FDA to approve of Plan...

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CDC Protest to Target Abortion Drug RU-486

American Life League has announced that tomorrow, May 11, their Rock for Life group will hold an informative demonstration outside of the Centers for Disease Control Conference Center in Atlanta, Georgia beginning at 7:30 a.m. The CDC is hosting a...

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May 9, 2006

Pro-Life Groups Slam Morning after Pill Campaign

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has announced a new program to promote the use of the so-called "morning after" early abortion pill even as pro-lifers protest the abortion group during their annual convention being held in Washington,...

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The Clinton RU-486 Files

Three days after being sworn into office, President Bill Clinton signed an executive order directing the Department of Health and Human Services and the FDA to take steps to promote the testing, licensing, and manufacturing of the RU-486 abortion pill....

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May 8, 2006

Abortion Drug and Infections to be Examined

The Food and Drug Administration has announced its agenda for a meeting that will examine the deadly infections that have occurred in women who took the abortion drug, RU-486. The Wall Stree Journal reports:The meeting, to be held jointly with...

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April 10, 2006

Abortion Pill Kills Child but Not Mother

From Reuters:One of two recent deaths of women taking the abortion pill RU-486 was unrelated to an abortion or use of the drug, but the second case is still under investigation, U.S. regulators said on Monday....

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March 20, 2006

RU-486 Update

It's nice to see that Planned Parenthood has finally decided to stop telling women to take the second drug of the RU-486 cocktail vaginally instead of orally. All it took was for a couple more women to die and their...

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March 17, 2006

Abortion Drug Claims Two More Lives

We know what it does to the unborn - RU-486 also kills women: The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday that the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug has killed two more women. That brings the total number of women who...

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February 24, 2006

When it's not about you ...

By Judie Brown Women are told that reproductive health services are designed to better their lives. They are also told that anti-abortion zealots are infringing upon these services. You've probably heard the cries emanating from the pro-abortion crowd. They go...

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February 16, 2006

Admission: Abortion Drug is Dangerous

While lawmakers in the Australian parliament debated her bill that has paved the way for legalizing the RU 486 abortion drug, MP Lyn Allison shrugged off concerns that the pills are dangerous and worries about more women dying. Now she...

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Aborting Choice in the Free Market

Massachusetts state pharmacy board ordered Wal-Mart yesterday to stock emergency-contraception pills at its stores in Massachusetts. This is the story about how abortion rights extremists used the government to force a corporate retail giant to stock an abortifacient. Related:Emergency contraception's...

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Emergency contraception's lethal secret

WASHINGTON, D.C. — "So-called emergency contraception is a risky drug regimen that can take the life of a newly formed human person," said Judie Brown, president of American Life League. "The decision in Massachusetts forcing pharmacies to sell this potentially...

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February 11, 2006

Disingenuous Times: Mifeprex

By Dawn Eden When a New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris says that abortion drug "Mifeprex or RU-486, is so controversial that some officials have been threatened after speaking about it publicly," shouldn't he say why the officials were threatened?...

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February 2, 2006

Abortifacient Drug Pushers Admit Scheme

I thought this story was absurd and another example of how pro-abortion extremists use the courts to force a death oriented social agenda. MASSACHUSETTS, United States, February 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Three women who are suing Wal-Mart after being denied...

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February 1, 2006

Pro-Abortion Groups Demand Walmart Carry the 'Morning After Pill'

Absurd:BOSTON - Backed by abortion rights groups, three Massachusetts women sued Wal-Mart on Wednesday, accusing the retail giant of violating a state regulation by failing to stock emergency contraception pills in its pharmacies.I don’t doubt that Walmart’s decision to not...

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January 3, 2006

RU-486 Adverse Events Reported

What comes to your mind when you hear the words “pro-life?” Maybe you think of sidewalk counselors outside an office of Planned Parenthood, or perhaps even the workers at a pregnancy care center, and these images would certainly be...

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December 11, 2005

faithmouse / two recent cartoons

Click cartoons to view larger versions. Both images are from the faithmouse web site....

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December 1, 2005

Good News For Child Murdering Crackheads

Crossposted from Stop The ACLU WND The Supreme Court of Hawaii has ruled that unborn children are not "human beings," and therefore women cannot be prosecuted for causing the death of babies by harmful behavior during their pregancies. The unanimous...

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November 23, 2005

More on the NY Times Abortion Pill Article

Dawn Eden comes out of hibernation to refute Planned Parenthood's "outrageous disdain for women's health" in Women's Abortion Deaths Only 'a Local Issue,' Says Planned Parenthood. (HT: RealChoice)...

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FDA Investigates Abortion Pill

LifeSiteNews author Hilary White calls attention to the FDA's investigation of RU-486, a pill used to chemically induce abortion. NEW YORK, November 23, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The New York Times reports today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)...

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October 12, 2005

Lawsuit Targets Distributor of RU-486

The family of a woman who died after taking the abortion pill says the firm didn't give patients sufficient warning of possible risks. From the Los Angeles Times: The family of an Orange County woman who died after taking RU-486...

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September 28, 2005

RU-486 Trial Halted in Italy

On September 21st, amid severe criticism, Italy’s health minister Francesco Storace halted experiments surrounding the abortion pill RU-486 citing health and legal reasons. - LifeSiteNews...

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FDA Seeks Your Input on Morning-After Pill

US federal regulators are seeking public comment on whether the "morning-after" pill should be made available without prescription. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is weighing a request to make the "Plan B" pill available over the counter only to...

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September 22, 2005

There's Got to Be a Morning After (Pill, That Is)

Pia de Solenni cuts through the fog created by Susan Wood to give the basic facts about the "morning after" pill -- facts deliberately hidden by NARAL, Planned Parenthood, and the rest of the usual suspects...including aforesaid Ms. Wood. This...

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September 1, 2005

Miami Herald editorial: "FDA caves in to abortion politicis"

Yesterday's Miami Herald included a scorching editorial against the FDA's decision to delay approval of the morning-after pill for over-the-counter sales. Begins the piece: Blame abortion politics for the Food and Drug Administration's unconscionable delay in approving Plan B --...

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August 29, 2005

Pro-Life Group Urges Input on Morning-After Pill

On Friday, August 26, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) called for public input on the question of whether Plan B, the ‘morning-after pill,’ can be safely sold to adolescents 16 years-old and over without a prescription, while requiring a...

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August 27, 2005

Planned Parenthood Accused of Secret Deal on 'Contraceptive'

CNSNews.com has more on the alleged secret deal between a manufacturer of the "morning after" pill and Planned Parenthood:(CNSNews.com) - A pro-life group is charging Planned Parenthood with having a secret deal with the manufacturer of the "morning after" pill...

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Alleged Secret Deal for Morning-After Pill

STOPP exposes Planned Parenthood's secret deal to cash in on over-the-counter 'morning-after' pill Washington, DC - "If the FDA gives a green light for over-the-counter distribution, Planned Parenthood stands to take in a minimum $100 million profit over a five-year...

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August 15, 2005

New Details Emerge about RU 486 Abortion Deaths

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...

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August 4, 2005

Doctor Claims RU-486 Can Cause Lethal Septic Shock

RU-486 is a chemical abortifacient used to take the life of an unborn child in the privacy of one's home. If this wasn't bad enough, a Brown University professor claims that one of the drug's ingredients - mifepristone -- can...

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July 28, 2005

RU-486 Study Proves Need for Drug's Suspension

Concerned Women for America (CWA) called "insufficient" the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA's) recent decision to strengthen the language on RU-486's warning label after reports that two more women have died after taking the abortion pill. Five women in the...

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RU-486 Causes Septic Shock Deaths says Researcher

Professor Ralph P. Miech, a professor emeritus in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology at Brown University, has provided clear evidence that RU 486 causes conditions in which bacterial infections can take hold and become deadly.

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July 27, 2005

Abortion Drug RU 486 Causes Rare Bacterial Infections

A Brown University researcher says the abortion drug RU 486 causes rare bacterial infections in women that are not usually seen anywhere else. An article scheduled to appear in the September issue of The Annals of Pharmacotherapy confirms the drug...

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