Word: pills
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Whatever happened to the common good? It's all about me, me, me. What are you going to do about me, the middle-class taxpayer? What are you going to for me, the pill-popping senior who doesn't know how I'm going to pay for it? Me, me, me - it'd be great to see a candidate drop the pretense and just wade into the crowd writing checks...
...Success of the two-pill regimen, reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, eliminates the need for an injection. The report stirs widespread public anticipation of the abortion pill...
...rules are actually less restrictive than many of those found in Europe. In Britain the pills are available only in licensed abortion facilities--usually clinics and National Health Service hospitals--and must be taken on the premises. Similar regulations exist in France, which requires four visits over a period of three weeks to a licensed hospital or clinic. Dr. Elizabeth Aubeny, one of the first physicians to test mifepristone, at the Broussais Hospital in Paris, contends there should be more flexibility in allowing women to take misoprostol at home, if they choose. Still, she admits, "there...
...drug to the Population Council, a New York City-based nonprofit research organization. The council conducted the clinical trial of mifepristone, but needed a drug-company partner to handle manufacturing, advertising and distribution. Again, fears of protest--or worse--intervened, with drug behemoths refusing to touch the controversial pill. The council spent a year searching before it chose Danco, a company started expressly to handle mifepristone...
...approval of the abortion pill, once known as RU 486, came after two decades of research, protests and political controversy...