RU486 up on the chopping block again

True to form, those weirdly sex-obsessed fuckers are moving fast (remember their marathon first 100 days in 1994?):

Republican lawmakers plan to reintroduce a bill to suspend the sale of RU-486, the abortion pill, and probe the process surrounding its approval now that three U.S. deaths have been linked to the drug.

The measure would ban the drug temporarily while the Government Accountability Office, Congress' investigative arm, conducts a six-month independent review of the approval process the agency used to declare RU-486 "safe and effective" in 2000.

One of the bill's co-sponsors, Sen.-elect and Rep. Jim DeMint, South Carolina Republican, said questions remain about the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of RU-486, whose generic name is mifepristone, under a protocol reserved for drugs intended to treat life-threatening diseases.

That decision, he said, which came during the Clinton administration, was "thoroughly political, not scientific."

If the FDA is found to have violated its own rules, the abortion drug would be banned indefinitely, said Mr. DeMint. If not, the suspension would be lifted.

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20041117-113118-4593r.htm

isn't political. Uh huh.
:eyes:

War against women, plain and simple.

20,000 plus dead before they yanked Vioxx. 3 dead from RU486. It's been widely available in Europe for over a decade, so they've got plenty of stats regarding its safety. They just can't help their keen interest in everybody's peepees.

...yet that will NEVER be banned, since it's a cash cow. Yet there have been dozens.

There have been DOZENS of deaths (mostly heart related from sexual activity- oy vey) linked to Viagra, and yet, I'm not hearing much call for an investigation into Pilzner....

it's the fuel that keeps the congressional boy's club feeling mighty. I'll bet Viagra pills are only outnumbered by Tylenol in their medicine cabinets.

And my, you don't think that all those times Viagra being used is for makin' babies do ya?
Gosh, what happened to the idea that every sperm is scared? :cry:

only they have the key. They are seriously irrational people. Of course you have to be to drink the Kool Aid and join the fundie cult.

I've never heard anyone mention the pun in the name:
"Are you for '86'?"

That said, I'd bet there were more deaths from aspirin overdose in the past year than there have been from RU-486 worldwide since it was released.

But of course, these people figure every dose of RU-486 to be a death.