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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...
...ROUND 2: Bush looks slightly awkward to me. He's flubbed a couple of lines and seemed oddly unprepared for the RU-486 question. Gore, although looking like he's made out of rawhide, is doing pretty well. His answers are more cogent. And what's the deal with W.'s makeup? I thought he was supposed to be Jack Kennedy to Gore's 1960 Nixon. It looks like it's the other way around. Bush, though, did well on energy. Nice use of local issues in coal states and Washington State...
...protests begin. On Thursday, under extraordinary scrutiny, the Food and Drug Administration approved RU-486, otherwise known as "the French abortion pill," for marketing in the United States under the name Mifeprex. The drug, which is actually two pills taken under a physician's supervision over the course of two days, has been proven extremely effective in ending pregnancies up to the 50th day following conception. These pills are different from the "morning after pill," or emergency contraceptive, which is administered in the 72 hours following intercourse. The FDA, which has been hemming and hawing over final approval for RU...
...This moment has been a long time coming: European women have had access to RU-486 for 12 years, but attempts to import the drug to the United States have been stymied internally by contentious debate. And even when the Clinton administration lifted a ban on importing the controversial drug in 1993, the French manufacturer declined to distribute the pill here, citing the explosive political undercurrents...
...Population Council concluded a hugely successful drug trial in which 92 percent of the participants achieved successful medical abortions - the remaining 8 percent required surgical intervention to complete the procedure. Within the study, two thirds of women who'd previously had a surgical abortion rated their experience with RU-486 as far preferable, particularly citing privacy and the absence of invasive measures. The pills must be taken in the presence of a surgically qualified doctor, who must be capable of performing a surgical abortion if the medical abortion fails. Ironically, this restriction means accessibility, which had been...