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Such metaphorical attacks against RU 486 and attempts by the FDA to stonewall its legalization, however, will not prevent the pill's distribution in America. This country cannot prevent tons of cocaine from entering our ports from South American countries. It seems inconceiveable that we could prevent tiny pills that look like Tylenol from entering our nation via the Concord...
ANTI-ABORTIONISTS are still making an international fuss over RU 486. In France, the pharmaceutical company Roussel Uclaf--which made the pill--almost stopped its distribution because of anti-abortion pressure. The company then reversed its decision in the face of pro-choice protests. RU 486 is now widely distributed in France, and is headed toward other Western European countries...
...under heavy political pressures--intends to keep RU 486 out of circulation, for whatever purposes. When the FDA loosened restrictions on unapproved drugs for the personal use of desperate AIDS patients in 1988, the department signalled out RU 486 with an "import alert" barring it from any such consideration...
...legalization of RU 486 will alter the moral underpinnings of both sides of the debate. Anti-abortionists will have little effectiveness in convincing us that a blood clot is a fetus. Pro-choicers will be just as ineffective in arguing that regulation of abortions will force women into back-alleys...
...that demand may be just as great for RU 486. The pill is safer, faster, and less expensive than abortion surgery...