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Even though UHS will not be offering RU-486 on site, by virtue of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval, both Rosenthal and Cohen said that Harvard students have the right to the new procedure, stressing that it is a private procedure...
...FDA) requires doctors who prescribe RU-486 to have access to surgical services if complications occur but does not require those surgeons to be available at the place RU-486 is administered...
Although these drugs were not approved by the FDA explicitly for medical abortions, in 1995 the New England Journal of Medicine published a study stating that the treatment was 96% effective if taken in the first 63 days of pregnancy...
...FDA deliberates, the arguments have only just begun. James Trussell, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University and a board member of the Association of Reproductive Health Professionals, sees no reason why the FDA approval shouldn't go through without a hitch. "There won't be any resistance that I'm aware of - there certainly shouldn't be anything other than the standard FDA approval procedures." Trussell's sanguinity, of course, is rooted in a belief that the morning-after pill serves both sides of the abortion debate. "This pill has the potential to significantly reduce...
...flaw in that "let's just all get along" logic is that as far as pro-life groups are concerned, the morning-after pill is just another form of abortion, as abhorrent as a surgical procedure. Asked to comment on the pill's pending appearance before the FDA, The National Right to Life Committee responded with a prepared statement: "Once fertilization has occurred, a new human life has begun and NRLC is opposed to destroying that new human life...