Christian doctors urge FDA to pull RU-486 (Mifeprex) from market

[Bluebear]

Washington, DC, July 20, 2005— Responding to yet another woman's reported death and a new FDA warning about the abortion drug Mifeprex, or RU-486, a 17,000-member medical association today again called for the FDA to pull the drug for a safety review.

David Stevens, M.D., Executive Director of the Christian Medical Association, noted, "With every death of another woman due to RU-486, the FDA's mandate grows clearer--to pull this drug for an objective safety review. This drug was initially approved in 2000 through a scientifically deficient and politically corrupted process. We documented that corrupt and deficient process in a 90-page brief submitted three years ago, calling on the FDA to pull the drug for review. The FDA has all the information it needs to get this dangerous drug off the shelves to protect the lives and health of American women.

"Doubtless some will say that many oppose RU-486 who also oppose abortion. And we do lament the tragic loss of lives of thousands of unborn babies killed by this drug. As physicians who care for women on a daily basis, we equally deeply lament the tragic toll of lives this drug has taken on women."

Gene Rudd, MD, an obstetrician and CMA Associate Executive Director, said, "Besides the preventable loss of the lives of these women, many more women have suffered in other ways after using this pill to abort their babies. Abortion not only kills a baby--it also creates in women a dark chasm of pain, guilt and the ever-echoing question, 'What if…?' That's why a growing number of women who have experienced abortion are saying that women deserve better.

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[RPM]

1. guh - life in general...

also creates a dark chasm of pain, guilt and the ever-echoing question, 'What if…?'

so what now, brown cow? ban life?

[sam sarrha]

2. next they will require Notarized copy of marriage cert, husbands approval

to get birth control.. unmarried women or men will not be able to get birth control.. it would be supporting Fornication.. which will also be illegal.

[sam sarrha]

4. and then we will have to deal with the wife maybe nulifying hubbies Vote..

[HockeyMom]

3. 5 deaths in 5 years out of how many?

Wake up to the REAL agenda here. Hello, my Dad was allergic to penicillin. He had a blood transfusion where the donor had taken penicillin. He went into cardiac arrest. So because of HIS reaction, would we advocate banning penicillin?

Any medication we take can have adverse side effects for SOME people. We don't ban the medication because of adverse reactions based on a few people. Face it. The Right to Life people are just using SMOKE SCREENS to ban anything (including plain old bc pills) to further their anti abortion agenda.

[sam sarrha]

6. the alleged research shown NO Direct Link to a relationship, info mining,

how many women had car wrecks.. went to work, missed a bus, got a hangnail...

or went to church the following Sunday, i used to do research, or whatever it was..

[Erika]

7. Making the U.S. a Christian theocracy

is the real agenda.

This drug has been tested for years around the world.

[Bluebear]

8. Bingo.

[Sal Minella]

14. Viagra deaths among men totaled 1200 in 2001 alone, if what

I heard on public radio is true -- these Christian Doctors should be more than 200 times as upset about the dangers of Viagra as the dangers of RU486.

Not taking Viagra causes no problems. Not taking RU causes childbirth and all the associated health problems, plus unwanted-baby problems which lead to unwanted (imprisoned) adult problems.

Ban Viagra Now!!!!! Save the lives of those poor innocent men!!!!!

[Vinca]

5. So, I'm right to assume the members of the Christian Medical Assoc.

are signing up to adopt lots of babies . . . right? And not just the pretty white, blond ones, thank you very much.

[cornermouse]

9. No political agenda here.

Keep moving, folks.

[DanCa]

10. And the msm media remains silent on both sides of the issue.

Conyers Blue Bear in 08 :D

[Bluebear]

11. Works for me! nt

[gollygee]

12. It is safer than pregnancy and birth

and therefore safer than the alternative of not taking it.

Their statistics, even if they were true, wouldn't be relevant without comparing the risk of this mediation to the risk of not taking it (going through a preganancy and birth).

[DanCa]

13. You know it takes two to make a baby

So if Fristian man are against birth control and abortion they should just follow Nancy Regan and "just say no". Secondly I feel sorry for my nine year old niece destiny marie, once she starts cylcing. She is a hemophiliac and needs bc to regulate blood flow if they out law it we dont know what were going to do.

[Erika]

15. This administration is anti-women /Males do no wrong

Males don't have to say no. It's always the woman's fault/responsibility.

My sister also took birth control for health purposes. We need to advance women's health issues.

[DanCa]

16. Agreed on women's health issues

Just don't judge us men by are worst examples :) Some of us are downright metero.