Abortion pill maker alerts doctors to 5 deaths

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8620380/



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That seems a little out of whack. Maybe I don't know science, but one a year does not seem like you could even begin to think their is a correlation.

RU-486 kill women. n/t

snip "No causal relationship between these events" has been established with the drug, also known as Mifeprex or mifepristone, maker Danco Laboratories LLC said.


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...you guys always enlighten me to the bias that is sometimes subtle yet ever-present.

These are two different medications.

To my understanding, the 'Morning after' pill is just a megadose of birth control to discourage fertilization. It needs to be taken within a short period of time after intercourse.

RU486 is taken when fertilization has already taken place.

Anti-choicers try to blur the line between the 2 and the lazy media lets them get away with it.

And yet, too many pro-choice folks don't understand the difference.

Ugh.

has a website, PPFA.org, for information on Mife. Also, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, www.agi.org.

Lets see how many are died from causes unrealated to the pill? I mean could someone have wound up on the list and been in a car accident? Could another have been going thru severe depression unrelated to the pills side effects. I just dont trust raw data from one source any more when it comes to abortion. Remember they said abortion causes breast cancer. What am saying is I need more sources and more information before I can give you a informed response..

in complications from childbirth? How many women died from complications from violent rape?

Any procedure or medication is not 100% safe. Ever.

Now throw out all these medications and lets see how many women die from self induced abortions, from ODing on quinine or from some other form of medival or old wives tale attempt at ending a pregnancy.
Mz Pip
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And these deaths aren't necessarily even linked to the drug. It may be that the women are getting the bacterial infection because they are not practicing sanitary lifestyles to begin with.

This study is a false correlation. Look at it this way. A doctor gathers a group of heavy kids and asks them how many kids have had a hot dog. They all raised their hands. The easy answer is all hot dogs make you heavy right? Wrong.
What did they have with the hot dogs? Potatoe chips and pop? And how many chips and sodas? And how many hot dogs with that? See the lazy thinking mind will just say the one hot dog will make the kid heavy and wont take in the other factor let alone the condiments on the hot dog in first case. (Or even the amount of exercise the kids got prior and previous to the digestion of the food they eat).

I am so tired of the uterus police practicing medicine without a license and am so angry with the up for making up commandments and tarnishing my gods rep. Jesus himself never said one thing about abortion or orientation its just an emotional guilt trip laid on by some current day evangelist to divide people for their own political causes. Sorry my ocd was kicking in. :D Have fun everyone and let me know if I gotta stop watching monk. Noonwitch I completly agree with you 100 percent.

...more have died from complications resulting from Viagra than RU-486.
In 2001, more than 130 men have died from Viagra:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/31/health/main327247.shtml

No need to panic.

lids properly?

But that's being brought back to the market.

This story is bullshit.

Next time someone argues that RU-486 should be taken off the shelves, tell them then they also must be lobbying for a ban on Viagra, which has killed substantially more men.

which stated that abortions cause cancer. Not true. But the Bushies had to be forced through continued complaints to delete that false information.

This is standard procedure for any drug when such findings occur. There is no reason to get up in arms. I mean, should the drug company hide these findings from physicians? Didn't many of us flip out about drug companies hiding information in regard to Vioxx? Chill, ya'll, chill.

Oh, yeah. On edit: As noted above, RU-486 is not the "morning after pill."

And this administration, and the MSM, will be only too happy to assist them.

All information can be exploited.

I was saying that the Right Wing will jump all over this. Please don't put words in my mouth.

That's obvious.

But, knowing that, what's the point of your response to my post?

On edit: For posterity, I didn't put words in your mouth. I made a comment. Why get so up in arms?

I'm wrong and you're right. Do you feel better now?

You can't even spell my name right.

Sheesh.

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Unless you're 100% celibate, some risk is always involved. Pregnancy & childbirth will kill more women here than RU-486. (A co-worker's friend had complications late in her pregnancy. Despite the best medical care, she & her twins died.)

www.populationaction.org/news/press/news_072495.htm

Events involving the drug must be studied, of course. Which women are high risk for complications? What are the early symptoms?

Or childbirth? Dollars to doughnuts, RU 486 is much safer than either. Yet it's still almost impossible to get in the U.S.

Its unlikely that it causes immunosuppression to this degree considering what its physically made of. I never read the raw literature on the original research that led to the development of RU-486, but sideeffects like immunosuppression or autosplenectomy would have been picked up immediately.

The bacterial organism they named Clostridium sordellii, I've haven't heard of in med school yet (then again I'm not a very good student to begin with) but its relative, Clostridium Dificil, is a very famous causes of pseudomembranous colitis (antibiotic related diarrhea) a common hospital infection related to multi-sprecturm anti-biotic used.

I'm not a doctor, and am not dispensing medical advice, but just based on the pharmacological properties of RU-486...I find it unlikely that it is linked to this sort of bacterial suceptibility.

At the same time however, there is a lot of things about a lot of drugs out there that the health care community doesn't figure out until much later.