29 Deaths from RU-486 "Morning After" Pill
WASHINGTON --Use of the abortion drug RU-486 has resulted in the deaths of 29 women worldwide, according to a new report.
Exeglyn, the European manufacturer of RU-486, reported the total, which is more than twice the previous estimate, to the Italian Pharmaceuticals Agency (AIFA), LifeNews.com said in a July 31 article based on news media sources. The estimate had been 13 deaths, according to LifeNews.
AIFA, meanwhile, approved RU-486 for sale in Italy for the first time. Previously, only surgical abortions had been available.
Abortions have decreased in Italy for more than two decades. The number of abortions has fallen from more than 234,000 in 1982 to less than 137,000 in 2004, according to LifeNews.
Eight women's deaths in the United States have been associated with RU-486, as well as nine life-endangering situations, about 120 blood transfusions and more than 200 hospitalizations, Sen. Jim DeMint, R.-S.C., said in 2006. DeMint is a leading Senate opponent of the federal government's approval of the abortion drug.
RU-486, also known as mifepristone, is used as the first part in a two-step process in the first seven weeks of pregnancy. Mifepristone causes the lining of the uterus to release the embryonic child, resulting in his death. A second drug, misoprostol, is taken two days after mifepristone and causes the uterus to contract, expelling the baby.
The FDA approved the sale of RU-486 in the U.S. in 2000, four months before President Clinton finished his second term.
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How easily people can justify these deaths in the pursuit of more death.
29 deaths out of how many uses?
Sounds safer than hotdogs, water and aspirin.
I don't want to minimize the sadness of the loved ones of those who died, but look at the abortions prevented, the devestated lives prevented. The numbers are not quantifiable, but we have to assume that they are much, much greater than 29 in nine years.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
This highlights why the context behind numbers is so very important.
Throwing 29 deaths out there is really a meaningless number. 29 deaths out of how many uses over the past nine years? If it is out of thirty uses then that would be shocking... if it was out of ten thousand uses then, while still tragic, it would not be statistically significant.
That it is at least 337.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
is that, to the Baptist Press, this is no different than abortion .
"Mifepristone causes the lining of the uterus to release the embryonic child, resulting in his death. A second drug, misoprostol, is taken two days after mifepristone and causes the uterus to contract, expelling the baby."
HIS death.
I do not subscribe to the view that a fertilized egg is the same as a sentient human being.
Although I am not Catholic, I tend to agree with their beliefs about the quickening.
It is not so much that I "forgot" the viewpoint of the Baptist Press, QM, as much as it is that I just don't care.
Thanks for illuminating how the drug works, though.
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
You can believe what you want but the Catholic Church gave up the idea on the quickening over a century ago. The Catholic Church believes that life begins at conception and that the use of RU-486 is murder .