I was reading an AP article on CNN’s site, the lead line in bold print, “Two more women have died after using the so-called "abortion pill" RU-486, regulators said Friday in a warning that brought renewed calls for pulling the drug combination from the market.”
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/03/17/ru486.deaths.ap/index.html
“Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. said it would stop recommending vaginal insertion of the second course of pills. Four of the women who died, including the latest two, received the pills at Planned Parenthood-affiliated clinics, said Dr. Vanessa Cullins, the organization's vice president for medical affairs. Planned Parenthood estimates RU-486 has been used 560,000 times in the U.S. since it was approved in 2000.”
In case you missed that last line, that’s over half a million drug induced abortions since 2000; which does not include figures for abortions carried out in clinics by other means. Does that sound like a healthy society, one that places the value of life above all else?
“Monty Patterson, a California man whose 18-year-old daughter, Holly, died in 2003 after taking RU-486, also said the drugs should be pulled from the market. The Senate bill is informally called "Holly's Law."
"The bottom line is that this is not about the abortion debate. This is about the safety, health and welfare of women," Patterson said.”
I hate to poke a hole in your balloon Monty; but killing an unborn baby is still killing and so, yes, abortion is part of the issue. I suppose you didn’t mind your daughter killing your grandchild; your attitude amazes me, I grieve for both of them.
Back in February I posted a split article, maybe it should have had its own title, A Bitter Pill to Swallow ( linked via title bar). RU- 486 is the controversial prescription drug that was at the center of a recent lawsuit which forced Wal-Mart to keep the drug in stock as part of their pharmacy inventory after 3 women forced the issue in Massachusetts.
“The unanimous decision by the pharmacy board comes two weeks after three women, backed by abortion rights groups, sued Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart for failing to carry the drug in its 44 Wal-Marts and four Sam’s Club stores in Massachusetts.”, quoting from the original story.
I suppose the next lawsuit will be filed against Wal-Mart for endangering the lives of those women who only want to murder their unborn child, not themselves, when Wal-Mart starts filling prescriptions of RU- 486. It’s only a matter of time.
Look at it from a different perspective; the drug RU-486 was designed to kill small children, so small they are living inside the womb, what makes anyone think that this same drug couldn’t kill a larger individual? Playing God is a dangerous game, we humans suck at it.
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If someone wants to take the risk of doing this and thinks that they can sue companies for the chances that they take, they should know it was coming to them. Anytime that a drug is prescibed there are side effects and they should have the knowledge to look at them and wonder if it risky enough for them to take them. Especially if it call kill an unborn fetus, then it's probably not good for you if it can kill the life that is in you. People need to take responsabiliy for their actions. If they want to do that, then they need to take the in to retrospect the consequenses that are going to happen.
It doesn't even apply to having abortions, most pills that poeple take these days have such bad side effects that they have to know that there is a payout for taking them. Like with depression or stess pills, or pain pills, they all have addictive side effects, it damages other parts of their body and sometimes makes the problem even worse. I really do beleive that when people take things like this that they should be at a last resort just for the fact that there are consequences to takeing them, like taking days to years off of their life. I think that these presciption pills have alot more damaging effects than people realize just for the fact that prescription medication has of this magnitude has only been around for a short timespan. And yes, sometimes poeple have to take them but it is mostly because they didn't take care of themselves to that point and that is why they are they way they are today. I really do think that Western medicine has completely lost the way of taking care of themselves. "Let's take a pill and everthing will be great. Let's live our lives with no consequences and when it comes to something, take a pill to make it all better and still live the lives that we are still living, meanwhile ruining our body and disgusing the problem."
Oh well, I get carried away sometimes but you get the hole gist of what I'm saying.
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