Abortion Opponents Seek Ban of Abortion Pill

Well, now, isn't that interesting?

Seems that based on five women who had severe problems, out of the more than 8,000 in the initial studies in the US and France, Concerned Women for America, the Christian Medical Association and the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists are all stating that the drug's approval should be revoked.

Of those five women, one had a heart attack, and one had an infection that nobody can actually trace to the pill. The other three had previously unknown ectopic pregnancies, and one of them did in fact die due to fallopian rupture. However, the drug is specifically contraindicated for ectopic pregnancies. (I'm guessing that the manufacturer must recommend sonograms before taking the drug; otherwise how would you know it was ectopic beforehand? The hormonal reaction is the same whether ectopic or otherwise.)

I wonder where this will go? Under Clinton, the FDA would have thanked them politely for their concern, and then filed it in the circular file. Given that Ashcroft is intervening in abortion and other related cases where no federal issue is at stake -- one assumes at Shrubya's command -- I would expect that regardless of the actual scientific merits, there will be heavy pressure from the administration to rescind the approval. (In fact, that's pretty much what I'd expect to happen. I cannot imagine this administration not taking that opportunity. Then again, Shrubya has surprised me once or twice before. Maybe he'll do it again.)