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...recent FDA approval of the RU-486 pill made the thorny issue of abortion a talking point at the debate as well. While Bush, who opposes abortion rights, said he would not try to overturn the approval if he was president, he said he was against a culture that accepts more abortions and restated his opposition to partial-birth abortion...
...having the inside scoop, virtually everyone learned that the Food and Drug administration approved the revolutionary abortion pill called mifepristone from - of all places - CNN. President Clinton learned about it only moments earlier from Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. And Shalala got the news by telephone from FDA commissioner Jane Henney - after the FDA made the announcement public...
...TIME has learned that Shalala was so concerned about the administration being accused of ramrodding the abortion pill through the FDA for political reasons in the middle of a tight election that she made it clear to the White House that she did not want anyone there at all involved in the process at all. Message: Butt out. "She's smart," says a key HHS official. "She knew the press was going to ask whether any of this was done for political reasons, and she wanted to answer to be no." Shalala issued strict instructions to her staff to respond...
...wasn't exactly business at usual. For security reasons, the FDA has taken the unusual step of not disclosing the name or site of the mifepristone drug manufacturer or the names of employees working on it. Nor did they name the doctors and scientists on the FDA advisory committee that made the decision to approve the abortion pills. An HHS official said this precaution has never been taken before in connection with approval of a drug...
...Barring any major political upheaval - like the appointment of a new, anti-choice FDA commissioner - the door to the American drug marketplace now stands wide open: After several false starts, a marketing group (the New York?based Danco Laboratories) and manufacturer (the name of which remains anonymous) have signed on. The drug is expected to become available in about a month...