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This "irresponsibility" manfested itself in PCC's supposed description of abortion and the morning after pill as methods of contraception at a proctoral outreach last spring. What Mr. Webb has claimed as fact is actually fiction: PCC has not and does not advocate either abortion or the morning after pill as methods of contraception...
Could there be a pill to prevent cancer? Since the 1970s, experiments with lab animals and studies of cancer rates in different countries have suggested that certain vitamins or related compounds could at least lower the risk of getting some forms of the disease. That evidence has prompted a series of large trials in humans to see if these substances can throw a shield around potential cancer victims...
MEDICINE: Prohibitive price for a vital pill...
...maintaining a woman's right to have an abortion tops the agenda of pro- choice forces, then introducing RU 486, the so-called abortion pill, into the U.S. ranks second. So far the foes of abortion have managed to keep the French-made drug out of the country. But last week a delegation of American feminists and scientists met in Paris with executives of Roussel Uclaf, the French company that manufactures the drug, and in Frankfurt with officials * from Hoechst AG, Roussel's parent company. The Americans presented a petition signed by 115,000 people urging the distribution...
...through the back door. The drug has potential as a therapy for endometriosis and breast cancer. If RU 486 were approved to treat these conditions, doctors could also prescribe it for abortions. Roussel opposes any deception. Says Dr. Baulieu: "RU 486 has to be sold as the abortion pill that...