Category: RU486

FDA sends warning letters to two entities selling mislabeled and unapproved abortion drugs over the Internet

By Dave Andrusko On Monday, the FDA sent warning letters to two online entities for introducing “Misbranded and Unapproved New Drugs into Interstate Commerce,” specifically mifepristone and misoprostol, the two drugs that make up the “RU-486”abortion technique. AidAccess.org and Rablon were told to immediately stop selling unapproved versions of the drugs and to “respond to …

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Wichita abortion clinic challenges Kansas “medical abortion” law

By Dave Andrusko Back in late April, Kansans for Life stood tall in a battle over a bill to expand “telemedicine” so as to reinforce the state law that requires that a doctor be physically present when a woman takes the first of two drugs that make up a chemical abortion, aka RU-486, and to …

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Updated FDA reports at least 22 deaths associated with chemical abortions (RU-486 abortions)

By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. My family and I will be on our  vacation through September 7. I will occasionally add new items but for the most part we will repost “the best of the best” — the stories our readers have told us they especially liked. For many years the only data from the FDA …

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British government authorizes home use of second abortifacent pill, SPUC vows legal action

By Dave Andrusko Less than a month after a judge upheld the Scottish government’s decision to allow women to take the abortifacient drug misoprostol at home, the British government announced over the weekend that by the end of the year home use of misoprostol will be legalized. Misoprostol is the second drug of the two-drug …

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Court upholds Scottish Govt’s decision to allow women to take abortifacient at home

SPUC “extremely disappointed that our concerns have not been upheld” By Dave Andrusko Following a two day hearing in May that took place at Edinburgh’s Court of Sessions, Judge Lady Wise has ruled that the Scottish Government’s decision to allow women to take the abortifacient drug misoprostol at home is “not unlawful.” Misoprostol is the …

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BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health refuses to publish criticism of article promoting DIY home abortions

Academic journal publishes flawed article promoting home abortions and ignores criticism. By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Editor’s note. Misoprostol is one of the drugs that make of the two-drug RU-486 abortion technique. The British Medical Journal’s journal BMJ Sexual & Reproductive Health journal has refused to publish any criticism of a …

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College co-ed complains she had to go six miles to abort, insists college health centers should provide chemical abortifacients

By Dave Andrusko Periodically a story will update the proposal that would require the on-campus health centers of public universities in California to offer abortion-inducing drugs such as RU-486. If enacted into law, California would have the dubious distinction of being the first state to create such a mandate. A story that appeared this week, …

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Chemical Abortions: The pro-abortion plan if abortions become substantially harder to obtain — Part Two

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. Part One of Dr. O’Bannon story ran on Tuesday. He provided an extensive background to the history of chemical abortions and how abortionists have ignored protocols in a ceaseless effort to make more money off of chemical abortions (“RU-486”) and pave the …

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Chemical Abortions: The pro-abortion plan if abortions become substantially harder to obtain — Part One

By Randall K. O’Bannon, Ph.D. NRL Director of Education & Research Editor’s note. This appeared in the latest issue of National Right to Life News. Part Two will run on Wednesday. I trust you are enjoying this 41-page edition and are sharing its contents with family and friends. Ever wonder why the industry developed the …

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Having underwritten development of RU486, Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation now trying to make chemical abortions “more accessible”

By Dave Andrusko A highly interesting story ran today in Inside Philanthropy (“Who’s funding what, and why?”) headlined, “The Nonprofit Funding Research to Change the Conversation Around Abortion Access” and written by Caitlin Reilly. Spoiler alert. We’ll develop this over the next 300 words or so, but here is her conclusion: These are challenging times …

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President of British Royal College of OB-Gyns endorses home consumption of abortion pill

By SPUC—the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children Professor Lesley Regan, the president of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG), continues to advance her opinion in favour of abortion pills being consumed at home, without medical assistance. At present women who have a medical abortion (more common in the first nine weeks …

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Critics of abortion reversal have “perfected obfuscation and paternalism”

By Dave Andrusko This is the last post of the day and, as such, will be less analysis and more summary. To get the full picture, let me strongly encourage you to read, “The Abortion Reversal ‘Witch Hunt’: Dismissing this ‘junk science’ has ethical and moral implications” by Philip Reed. By way of introduction to …

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