Well, here's an excellent follow-up to the matter --- Michelle Gress [shown at right], former counsel to Congress' Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources that investigated the FDA’s approval of RU-486, has a well-argued article in National Review that you won't want to miss. In that piece, Gress demonstrates that last week's headlines about the RU-486 study "took deception in journalism to a whole new level."
RU-486 is anything but safe.
Indeed, Gress, now Director of Operations for the Westchester Institute, relates that after the thorough hearings that Congress held about RU-486, the subcommittee published an extensive report which strongly urged the FDA to immediately withdraw the drug from the market.
Gress, writes, "The report, 'FDA and RU-486: Lowering the Standard for Women’s Health' [this link will take you to a PDF/Adobe file of the entire report] summarizes a mountain of evidence about this drug’s serious and unpredictable danger to women, detailing the reasons that the drug should be immediately withdrawn from the market. Here are just some highlights: RU-486 was fraudulently approved; it has caused the deaths of at least eight women (that are known); and it is at least ten times deadlier than its surgical alternative."
She then goes on to describe in detail just how the drug works to kill the targeted preborn baby...and just how dangerous the drug works on the baby's mom too. It's important (and largely unreported) information that you should carefully read through.
Gress concludes, "Returning to the mendacious headlines claiming RU-486 is 'safe,' the careful reader will note that the study prompting this recent PR blitz lauding the abortion pill was not about the safety of RU-486 as a drug, or even as a form of abortion. The study was a comparison of subsequent pregnancy outcomes among women who had prior abortions, concluding that there was no difference between surgical or medical abortion on the impact on subsequent pregnancy.However, abortion in general poses some risk to subsequent pregnancy; so to say there is no difference in long-term risk after having a medical versus surgical abortion is like saying there is no difference in long-term risk after getting into a traffic accident in a sedan versus a motorcycle. It ignores the fact that traffic accidents are dangerous, and motorcycle accidents are much more deadly."
Again, here is the entire article.
