[NYer]

Abortion kills .. sometimes, it kills twice.

The drug company is not the only one complicit in this matter. The FDA approved the drug, doctors prescribed it and women who did not want to be encumbered with an 'unplanned' pregnancy, eagerly took it. All are at fault!

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[Victoria Delsoul]

It was a matter of time. Wasn't it?

[Petronski]

RU-486: Zyklon-B for the womb.

[billybudd]

This article is not very informative. It mentions seven deaths due to RU-486, but does not mention the overall number of people using RU-486. I don't know the numbers, but 7 deaths from potentially millions of users doesn't seem significant. The article also does not compare the death-per-use rate of RU-486 to that of other drugs on the market. All drugs are essentially a tradeoff between the illness/symptom and the risk of adverse side effects, including death. Evaluating this tradeoff is a prerequisite to evaluating the usefulness of a drug, yet this article doesn't bother with it.

The argument "let's ban the drug because it killed some people" isn't useful because it would also mean banning life-saving drugs which nonetheless carry some risk of death. There may be other reasons why RU-486 should be banned, but this is not a good one.

[BobS]

So we have a pill that allows a woman to flush a human life down a toilet. We are becoming exactly like the terrorists who would not think twice about shoving a knife in your throat.