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FDA Issues Warning Regarding Abortion Pill Risks

Clint Gilbert

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Posted by Clint GilbertMarch 22, 2006 9:11 AM

Tags: Defective Drugs

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The recent deaths of two women, coming after both had used the abortion pill Mifepristone (also known as RU-486), has prompted the FDA to issues fresh warnings concerning the use of the drug. These most recent deaths follow at least four known previous deaths linked to the drug.

RU-486 is approved to induce medical abortion through the first 49 days of pregnancy. The "pill" is actually a two-step process involving one drug taken orally followed by another to be taken two days later, also orally. In all of the deaths linked to RU-486 the women choose to take the second drug vaginally. Despite FDA warnings about the risks of using the drug in this manner, many clinics offering RU-486 advise women that vaginal insertion of the second drug has been shown to be more effective than oral ingestion.

THe FDA added warnings to the label of RU-486 in 2004 concerning this issue, and advising of the proper way to administer the drug. Following the two recent deaths, however, the FDA is repeating the warning of the risks of ingesting the drug in any way other than orally.

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Posted by Dr.H.Davis
July 06, 2007 6:37 PM

If this deadly drug ("approved"drugs kill about 150,000 Americans a year and cripple about 1.5 million according to Harvard med news!) had been a 'nautral' supplement or herb the FDA would have it off the market with the companies assets impounded,etc.

Tell me they are not 'paid' off. I KNOW some are with good jobs in the pharma industry after they leave the FDA. It is a very corrupt organization-a tool of big pharma.

It's great as these laywers are fighting for the consumer!They are going against the greedy drug maufacturers who place profit ahead of safety.

Why does the human body react to all of their drug concoctions? Because they are toxic and force the body into actions/reactions it does not wish to engage in so we call this "side-effects."

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