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Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Another study suggests Planned Parenthood is at fault in the deaths of women in the United States from the abortion drug RU 486. The abortion business had been telling women to use the drug in a different way than the FDA guidelines suggested and the study shows it contributed to the deaths. So far, eight women have died from the use of the abortion drug, including women going to Planned Parenthood abortion centers in California.Planned Parenthood had been telling women to use the abortion drug vaginally, even though the FDA indicated oral use is safer for...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Another study suggests Planned Parenthood is at fault in the deaths of women in the United States from the abortion drug RU 486. The abortion business had been telling women to use the drug in a different way than the FDA guidelines suggested and the study shows it contributed to the deaths. So far, eight women have died from the use of the abortion drug, including a rash of women going to Planned Parenthood abortion centers in California. Planned Parenthood had been telling women to use the abortion drug vaginally, even though the FDA indicated oral...

An English teenager died from complications two weeks after taking two abortion pills, her mother told an inquest into her death this week.Manon Jones, 18, described by her mother as a devout Christian teen, opted to terminate her pregnancy at six weeks because she feared the pregnancy would cause conflict within her "Muslim" boyfriend's family, the Daily Mail reported Friday. The teen took the first dose of medication to terminate the pregnancy on June 10, 2005, and the second two days later. On June 15, Jones felt light-headed and experienced heavy bleeding so her boyfriend took her to Southmead...

STOCKHOLM,Sweden: A Swedish court of appeal on Tuesday sentenced a 27-year-old man to 18 months in prison for trying to make his girlfriend miscarry by mixing abortion pills in her food. The man, who was not named for legal reasons, had his jail term increased from a previous one-year sentence set by a district court in June. In its ruling, the Court of Appeal for Western Sweden found the man guilty of aggravated assault for attempting to make his girlfriend of eight years miscarry by giving her a yoghurt containing three ground-up pills. The sentence also included a more minor...

Several months ago when the news broke about poisonous pet food and lead-laden toys from China, I asked my local pharmacy to give me a letter stating it is not selling me any prescription drugs imported from China. The reply was, "We don't buy any drugs from China." I said, "I know you don't, but I want you to check with your suppliers and verify that they don't buy from China." That request was met by thunderous silence. Now we know why. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported that 80 percent of the drug substances used by U.S. manufacturers to...

"Everyone does it, so what's the big deal?"  Taking the pill, getting "fixed", getting a shot of Depo-Provera...there's a myriad of choices for contraception.  The expectation in today's modern society is that everyone uses artificial birth control at some point in their lives, be they married or not.  Right?  Many years ago, I would have agreed with all of the above.  I was not a rebellious Catholic, just an ignorant one.  But the guilt of my ignorance rests on more shoulders than just mine.  I was surrounded by contraception Catholics who discussed their birth control as easily as they spoke...

How can something be both immense and minute at the same time, something upon which all of human history depends, yet fragile and almost non-existent to the eye?  It is the union of an egg and sperm — an embryo.  Such is God's way.  He takes something smaller than a mustard seed and brings forth all of civilization.  After creating everything in the universe single-handedly, He created us in his own image and bestowed upon us the power to become co-creators with Him.  Working in union with us, when the sperm unites with the egg, not only has a new...

BEIJING — A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide drug scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed last summer by contaminated leukemia drugs. Chinese drug regulators have accused the manufacturer of the tainted drugs of a cover-up and have closed the factory that produced them. In December, China’s Food and Drug Administration said that the Shanghai police had begun a criminal investigation and that two officials, including the head of the plant, had been detained. The drug maker, Shanghai...

BEIJING — A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide drug scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed last summer by contaminated leukemia drugs. Chinese drug regulators have accused the manufacturer of the tainted drugs of a cover-up and have closed the factory that produced them. In December, China’s Food and Drug Administration said that the Shanghai police had begun a criminal investigation and that two officials, including the head of the plant, had been detained. The drug maker, Shanghai...

Tainted Drugs Linked to Maker of Abortion Pill By JAKE HOOKER and WALT BOGDANICH BEIJING — A huge state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company that exports to dozens of countries, including the United States, is at the center of a nationwide drug scandal after nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients were paralyzed or otherwise harmed last summer by contaminated leukemia drugs. Chinese drug regulators have accused the manufacturer of the tainted drugs of a cover-up and have closed the factory that produced them. In December, China’s Food and Drug Administration said that the Shanghai police had begun a criminal investigation and that two...

Thirty-five years after the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, a pill that has largely faded from the rancorous public debate over abortion has slowly and quietly begun to transform the experience of ending a pregnancy in the United States. The French abortion pill RU-486, on the market since 2000, has become an increasingly common alternative, making abortion less clinical and more private. At a time when the overall number of abortions has been steadily declining, RU-486-induced abortions have been rising by 22 percent a year and now account for 14 percent of the total -- and more than...

(He put abortion pill in girlfriend's drink, complaint charges) Appleton, WI - Two weeks after a 39-year-old pregnant Kaukauna woman watched her boyfriend frantically mix something in an ice cream smoothie and give it to her, she miscarried. Suspicious of her boyfriend's actions, Darshana G. Patel didn't drink the smoothie, but she had consumed other food and drinks he had been preparing for her since she announced her pregnancy. Now, thinking her boyfriend might have had something to do with this miscarriage and a miscarriage she suffered last year, she had the smoothie tested and contacted Outagamie County sheriff's detectives....

A married Wisconsin man has been charged with causing a woman to have two miscarriages by slipping her the abortion pill. Authorities said the woman already has a 3-year-old child with Manishkumar Patel and had become pregnant by him two other times. "These allegations are devious, diabolical and disturbing," Outagamie County Court Commissioner Brian Figy told Manishkumar Patel at a hearing, according to the Appleton Post-Crescent newspaper. Authorities said the woman became suspicious of a smoothie that Patel had bought for her from an ice cream shop. She contacted police after having a sample tested by a California lab, which...

THURSDAY, Nov. 29, 2007, 3:22 p.m. By Meg Jones Laced smoothie leads to man's arrest Appleton - A 34-year-old Kaukauna man who owns several hotels and gas stations in the Fox Valley and northeastern Wisconsin is accused of giving his girlfriend the abortion pill RU-486 because he didn't want children. The 39-year-old Kaukauna woman couldn't understand why she suddenly miscarried twice especially after her regular medical check-ups showed her pregnancies were going well. So she went to authorities and after testing an ice cream smoothie the man had purchased for the woman, Outagamie County Sheriff's detectives confirmed her suspicions. Now...

WASHINGTON, DC. October 17, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Evidence is mounting that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) participated in coverups of health and safety violations and breaches of ethics in approving the abortion drug, RU 486, that has caused the death of at least six women in the US.  Yesterday, the public interest group Judicial Watch announced that newly acquired FDA documents, previously witheld by the FDA, show that the agency knew that the facilities owned by China’s Hua Lian Pharmaceutical Company to manufacture RU 486 were sub-standard at the time they were approved for use in August 2000....

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorOctober 8, 2007Valleta, Malta (LifeNews.com) -- The head of the pro-abortion group that operates the abortion ship that has targeted the people of Ireland, Portugal and Poland is heading to Malta, one of the few European nations that makes abortion illegal. Rebecca Gomperts will visit the island nation on Wednesday to deliver a speech advocating legal abortions.Gomperts is the director of Women on Waves, the pro-abortion organization that has taken its converted tugboat to international waters outside pro-life nations to give women the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug.Her speech, “The Right to a Dignified Motherhood: The Crucial...

Philippine Population Control Groups Launch Suit Against Pro-Life Manila Former Mayor By Hilary White MANILA, Philippines, October 2, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Lito Atienza, the former mayor of the Philippine capital Manila, who has earned the wrath of abortionists and population control groups for his opposition to the killer abortion drug RU-486, is facing a lawsuit by those same groups. According to Elizabeth Pangalangan, executive director of the Reproductive Health, Rights and Ethics Center at the University of the Philippines, the suit aims to "hold [Atienza] liable for acts which caused injury to women." Atienza, who is now the Environment Secretary...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 28, 2007Sydney, Australia (LifeNews.com) -- A Sydney hospital has become the second in Australia authorized to sell the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug and the third place nationwide. Westmead Hospital in Sydney found out on Tuesday that the Therapeutic Goods Administration would allow it to dispense the drug to women.Terry McGee, director of obstetrics and gynecology at the Westmead Hospital, confirmed that it would be selling the drug, which has killed 13 women worldwide and injured more than 1,100 in the United States alone.McGee told The Age newspaper that the abortion drugs would only be used...

WASHINGTON, August 16, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Misleading conclusions are being drawn in news stories based on a study that has indicated that the RU486 abortion drug is no more dangerous than surgical abortions. Misleading major media headlines include: Time magazine’s “Study Finds Abortion Pill Safe,” the Chicago Tribune’s “Study: Abortion Pill Doesn’t Increase Risks” and the New York Post’s “Abortion Pill Gets all Clear.” "Reporters are drawing the erroneous conclusion that this study means RU486 is completely safe. That's not what the study says, and nothing could be further from the truth," said Operation Rescue Senior Policy Advisor Cheryl Sullenger....

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 26, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - For weeks the US Food and Drug Administration has been warning the American public about tainted Chinese imports of contaminated pet food, poisonous toothpaste, and an outbreak of botulism. However the federal agency has failed thus far to issue warnings over the possible contamination of RU-486, a chemical abortion pill made exclusively in China, which has led to at least 6 documented deaths in North America and hundreds of severe adverse effects in women. As the Chinese scandals began to unfold, pro-life Congressman Chris Smith (R-NJ) and co-chairman of the Bipartisan Pro-life Caucus...

Turin, Jul. 12, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Four doctors in Turin, Italy, are under investigation for their use of the abortion pill RU-486, La Stampa reports. Although the use of RU-486 is permitted, a 2005 protocol issued by former health minister Francesco Storace specified that women who are given the abortion pill are to remain in hospital until after the abortion of their baby. However, of the 362 women who were given RU-486 at Santa Anna-Regina Margherita Hospital in 2005, only 2 remained in the hospital until after the death of the child. A fifth doctor involved in the investigation was...

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- One day after they voted to promote changing England's abortion law to allow just one physician to sign off on an abortion, the British Medical Association has voted to promote allowing nurses to distribute the abortion drug. They want nurses to hand out RU 486 even though it has killed two women in England. In addition to the British deaths, several women have died in the United States from the abortion drug and in Canada, Sweden and France as well. More than 1200 women in the United States alone have reported medical problems following the use...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A doctor who has reviewed the seven cases of women in the United States dying after using the dangerous abortion drug RU 486 has admitted that it's possible the deaths occurred because Planned Parenthood gave women incorrect instructions. When the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of the abortion drug in the waning days of the Clinton administration, it said mifepristone should only be used orally. Despite its recommendations, the abortion company told women to use it vaginally, claiming it would produce fewer complications. Planned Parenthood also uses a different dosage of the abortion drug...

COLUMBUS, Ohio, September 29, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A US federal judge overturned an Ohio Law restricting the abortion pill RU-486, calling it “unconstitutionally vague” and that it failed to include a significant health exception. The law had intended to regulate RU-486 (or mifepristone) according to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) protocols, which would have made it illegal for doctors to prescribe the drug after the seventh week of pregnancy.US District Judge Susan Dlott ruled Wednesday in agreement with Planned Parenthood that the law regulating mifepristone was “unconstitutionally vague”, and violated due process rights under the 14th amendment, which “prohibits...

A pro-life senator will put a hold on FDA nominee Andrew von Eschenbach unless he takes "immediate steps" to remove the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug off the market. Despite it killing seven women and injuring another 950 more, Danco Laboratories' has refused to stop sales of the mifepristone drug while it's safety is reviewed. Sen. Jim DeMint, a South Carolina Republican, will prevent a vote on Eschenbach, his press secretary Wesley Denton told the New York Times. “Senator DeMint believes that a qualified FDA nominee would publicly discourage RU-486’s use and take immediate steps to remove it from the...

Misguided, Anti-Catholic, and Just Plain EvilIt is hard to encapsulate the more than 200 volatile emails and phone calls that I received two weeks ago concerning HLI's position on Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, but I think it is helpful to report a few of them in their own words. Perhaps this will give a clearer picture of the souls of some of our citizens who very deliberately and aggressively responded to our exposure of those wealthy population controllers. Certainly, not all Americans endorse the hateful remarks below, but the responses do illustrate how far the culture has regressed not...

A LEADING abortion provider will trial an anti-cancer drug to terminate pregnancies because of delays in getting the abortion drug RU486 legally approved. Marie Stopes International will run the trial in Sydney from next month and will treat 100 women in the early stages of pregnancy with methotrexate, combined with four follow-up doses of a drug used to treat stomach ulcers, misoprostol. If the trial is successful, the treatment will be used at the company's eight clinics in New South Wales, the ACT, Queensland and Western Australia. A conscience vote in the Federal Parliament five months ago stripped Health Minister...

The Hell of Gates Shall Not PrevailIn what seems like a well-scripted one-two punch of the culture of death, the world’s two richest men have dazzled our fawning media and society with their dangerous magic in the past several weeks. The sequential announcement of the pending retirement of Bill Gates from Microsoft and the gift of some $40 billion from Warren Buffet to the Gates’ foundation ought to strike fear in the heart of every unborn baby in the world. This is truly an unprecedented event: the world’s second richest man giving the bulk of his immense fortune to the...

In a dramatic shift in his philanthropic plans that will create a colossus in the world of giving, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman Warren Buffett, the world's second richest man, plans to give away the bulk of his fortune to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, run by the world's richest man. Mr. Buffett also made pledges to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named after his late wife,... The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, which has $270 million in assets, will receive one million B shares, or about $3.1 billion at current prices. The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation has been a quiet...

OLYMPIA, Washington, June 23, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The owners of a popular grocery store have refused to stock abortifacient Plan B medication, triggering threats of a month-long boycott by women’s rights activists.Kevin Stormans, co-owner of Ralph’s Thriftway, said the store pharmacy would not carry Plan B medication because of moral concerns over the drug, the Olympian reported on Wednesday.“I don’t want to get into a detailed debate. I just think people have to choose when they believe life begins,” Mr. Stormans told the Olympian. “There are questions about this drug on that issue.”Widely touted as an “emergency contraceptive” by advocates, in...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Abortion opponent Janet Spear walked up to the door of the defunct Summit Medical Center on Wednesday and taped up the sign she had longed to see for years: "This death camp stays closed." Spear joined about three dozen activists at a ceremony to celebrate the closing of the downtown clinic, which surrendered its license last week rather than fight state charges that a worker was improperly allowed to perform an abortion without a doctor being present. Sweating under the noontime sun outside the darkened clinic building, Spear and the others prayed for the thousands of women...

In a June 12 letter to the House Subcommittee on Criminal Justice, Drug Policy and Human Resources, Monty Patterson, the father of 18-year-old Holly Patterson, who died in 2003 after taking the abortion pill RU-486, has accused a former official of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of deliberately leaving out her associations with pro-abortion advocacy groups in her testimony on RU-486. “I question if there are ethical issues and a potential conflict of interest surrounding Susan F. Wood, Ph.D., testifying at the Subcommittee Hearing on May 17, 2006,” Patterson wrote. Formerly Assistant Commissioner for Women’s Health at the...

Rome, Italy -- A new book published in Italy asserts that the abortion drug RU 486 is unsafe for women. The book is a novelty of sorts because a leading abortion supporter and pro-life advocate joined forces to publish it. Published this week, the book, The Fable of Easy Abortion: Myths and Realities of the RU-486 Pill, dispels the notion that the abortion drug mifepristone, marketed as Mifeprex, is safe for women. The authors say the abortion drug can cause medical problems such as abdominal pains and cramps, nausea, hemorrhages, headaches and vomiting. It says women can endure physical pain...

A recent CNN poll compared former President Bill Clinton's job performance to that of President Bush, and, to no one's surprise, Bill Clinton won. It reported that poll respondents favored Clinton by greater than 2-1 margins "when asked who did a better job at handling the economy (63 percent Clinton, 26 percent Bush) and solving the problems of ordinary Americans (62 percent Clinton, 25 percent Bush)." That first number astounds me. By every conceivable measure, the economy is better today than it was when Clinton was re-elected. (Not that the president has much to do with it, anyway.) But it...

ROME, May 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Reuters reports that Italian Prime Minister, Romano Prodi, reprimanded his ministers Tuesday for expressing their personal opinions on sensitive social issues such as abortion and homosexual civil unions. Although the recently elected Prime Minister had vowed to bring in legal recognition for homosexual partnerings, his coalition government is divided on these and similar issues. L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican's official newspaper rebuked Italy's health minister, Livia Turco, for her support of the deadly abortion drug, RU-486 which it called the weapon for "carefree murder." Turco had called the drug which has killed a "safe and...

An abortion clinic was shut down Thursday after the state suspended its license amid allegations that a worker administered an abortion-inducing drug and performed other medical treatment on the patient without a doctor. According to state health officials, the woman was told she was only six weeks pregnant but delivered a nearly full-term stillborn infant. An order from the State Board of Health called the violations by Summit Medical Center in Birmingham "egregious," and the state health officer, Dr. Donald Williamson, said the clinic might not reopen. "We feel we need to move toward revoking their license," said Williamson. Officials...

State health officials on Wednesday shut down a Birmingham abortion clinic after a woman was told she was six weeks pregnant and given an abortion-inducing drug, then delivered a 6 pound, 4 ounce stillborn child at a local hospital.[Not the abortion clinic] The State Board of Health issued an emergency order of license suspension on Wednesday against Summit Medical Center of Alabama on Southside. “That’s not something we do very often,” said Dr. Donald Williamson, state health officer. “The incident involved multiple and serious violations of the rules. There was no other means to address it except an emergency suspension.”...

Use Abortion to Kill Poor Americans, Roe Attorney Husband told Bill Clintonby Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com EditorMay 15, 2006Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Newly released papers regarding President Bill Clinton's promotion of the dangerous abortion drug RU 486 during his administration have produced a startling revelation. The husband of the woman who was the lead attorney in the Roe v. Wade case wrote the former president to urge him to use abortion to kill poor Americans.Last week, LifeNews.com reported on the release of presidential papers from the Clinton administration years showing the former president's first action as president in 1993 was to...

(AgapePress) - A women's pro-life group says pro-abortion forces and the maker of a dangerous abortion pill don't want the product pulled from the market, even while medical evidence against it mounts. Meanwhile, a government corruption watchdog group says it has proof the Clinton administration inappropriately used its political prowess to put the drug on the shelf in the first place.A public workshop sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was held in Atlanta last week in response to the deaths of more women being attributed to the abortion drug RU 486 or to complications from taking the drug,...

Before being sworn in as president, Democrat Bill Clinton was told that he should "start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of the country." Clinton received the advice in a letter from an advocate for the abortion drug regimen RU-486, which the president promoted during his first official act in the White House, according to a new report...

In unearthed letter urged President-elect Clinton to 'reform' country A letter to Bill Clinton written by the co-counsel who successfully argued the Roe v. Wade decision urged the then-president-elect to "eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of our country" by liberalizing abortion laws. Ron Weddington, who with his wife Sarah Weddington represented "Jane Roe," sent the four-page letter to President Clinton's transition team before Clinton took office in January 1993. The missive turned up in an exhibit put together by the watchdog legal group Judicial Watch, which has been researching the Clinton administration's policy on the abortion drug...

Having convinced the poor that they can't get out of poverty when they have all those extra mouths to feed, you will have to provide the means to prevent the extra mouths, because abstinence doesn't work. The religious right has had 12 years to preach its message. It's time to officially recognize that people are going to have sex and what we need to do as a nation is prevent as much disease and as many poor babies as possible. . . . There have been 30 million abortions in this country since Roe v. Wade. Think of all the...

Atlanta, GA (LifeNews.com) -- During a meeting of scientists and federal officials about the dangerous abortion drug RU 486 and how it has been responsible for killing six women, a Centers for Disease Control official revealed a seventh woman has died from a drug-based abortion. The seventh woman died from a drug-induced abortion but did not use the first part of the two-part RU 486 abortion drug. Clifford McDonald, a medical epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control, reported on the latest death and told the FDA officials and scientists at the meeting that the woman in question was given...

Worried about a bacterial infection that led to the deaths of at least five women who took the abortion pill RU-486, scientists from the nation's leading public health agencies will gather in Atlanta today for the first meeting in 10 years on the drug's safety. Scientists from the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the National Institutes of Health will consider whether the means of administering abortion drugs make pregnant women more susceptible to the bacterium Clostridium sordellii. They will also discuss whether the deaths may signal the emergence of a new and more...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Reports of rare bacterial infections, including a handful of cases in women who have taken the controversial RU-486 abortion pill, are cause for concern and warrant further study, U.S. health experts said on Thursday. Two sometimes fatal bugs -- Clostridium sordellii and Clostridium difficile -- are a particular worry as antibiotic resistance grows and infections occur in people without typical risk factors, doctors and researchers said. While the infections also have been reported in drug users, surgical patients and accident victims, including men, those found in women taking the pill drew the most scrutiny at a public...

New Documents from Clinton Presidential Library Reveal Clinton White House and FDA Political Drive to Bring Abortion to U.S. Market (Washington, DC) As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prepares for a May 11 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia focusing on deadly infections allegedly caused by the abortion pill RU-486, Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released a new special report: “The Clinton RU-486 Files.” The report contains recently uncovered documents that shed new light on the Clinton administration’s aggressive drive to push RU-486 to market in the United States. Judicial Watch obtained the...

Lawrence Lader, a writer who so successfully marshaled his literary and political efforts in support of abortion rights that Betty Friedan, the feminist author, called him the father of the movement, died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 86. The cause was colon cancer, his wife, Joan Summers Lader, said. Mr. Lader was a major voice in the abortion debate for four decades, becoming a lightning rod for its critics as well as a beacon for its proponents. He wrote influential books and articles on the subject, organized ministers to refer women wanting abortions to doctors as...

WASHINGTON, May 9, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) prepares for a May 11 meeting in Atlanta, Georgia focusing on deadly infections allegedly caused by the abortion pill RU-486, Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released a new special report: "The Clinton RU-486 Files." The report contains recently uncovered documents that shed new light on the Clinton administration's aggressive drive to push RU-486 to market in the United States. Judicial Watch obtained the documents from the National Archives at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas in February...

FDA May be Forced to Spill Beans on Irregular Approval of Abortion Drug RU-486 By John-Henry Westen WASHINGTON, April 25, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A hearing this morning at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concerned a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the FDA over documents concerning RU-486. Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, has demanded that the FDA release more than 4,000 documents from the public pertaining to the approval process used for the abortion pill, which has been linked to the deaths of at least six...

(AgapePress) - A pro-life activist says while the abortion lobby "plays with numbers," women are dying from the use of the abortion drug RU-486.According to Randall O'Bannon, a researcher with the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), the pro-abortion lobby claims more than half a million women have taken RU-486 -- also known as mifepristone -- with only a handful of problems occurring. However, he contends, this claim about the broad-scale use and low incidence of complications "doesn't seem to be true on either side."Since RU-486 was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2000, six women in...