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Although the philosophical center of the abortion debate has always been the woman and what was going on in her womb, its public center was the doctor who performs abortions and what was going on in his clinic. RU 486, its adherents hope, will permit medicine to achieve what politics has made problematic: allowing the issue of abortion to be a private matter between a woman and her doctor. "You can't stop a woman from visiting a doctor," a securities analyst who follows the drug industry told the Wall Street Journal. "It becomes a private transaction. And that...
Take an abortion clinic. Draw some protesters around it. Someone holding a sign with a fetus on it. Someone else, perhaps, holding a real fetus...
...miracle drug: the protesters disappear. So do the signs, the fetus. Why? Because the clinic, too, is gone, replaced by the privacy of thousands of anonymous doctors' offices. That, say some, is the elementary physics...
When the pill finds a maker, how will it reach the taker? Its proponents, especially those hoping to make the clinic protesters vanish, agree that France's tightly controlled distribution method was devised, as a New England Journal of Medicine editorial put it, "for political rather than scientific reasons." One common yet radical suggestion is that RU 486 and prostaglandin could be sold to women as prescription drugs and taken at home. "To even suggest that you could do that is ridiculous," protests Judie Brown, president of the American Life League. That sentiment finds some support even from Baulieu...
Attorney General Janet Reno urged Congress to draft legislation barring abortion-clinic blockades and the harassment of doctors, patients and staff by antiabortion protesters...