Posted on 03/20/2006 5:40:00 AM PST by Pharmboy
WASHINGTON, March 17 — After receiving reports that two more women died after taking abortion pills, Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of abortion and contraceptive services, announced that it would immediately change the way it gives the medicines.
The change partly resolves a long-running dispute between Planned Parenthood and the Food and Drug Administration over the safest way to provide pill-based abortions.
The F.D.A. has now received reports that six women in the United States died after taking RU-486, or Mifeprex. A seventh died in Canada. The two most recent deaths and two of the previous four underwent their procedures at Planned Parenthood clinics, a spokeswoman said.
Federal officials do not yet know the cause of the latest two deaths. The previous four resulted from systemic infections with a virulent bacteria, Clostridium sordellii. Planned Parenthood announced in a statement that one of the two recent deaths occurred within days of the victim's undergoing a pill-based abortion, while the other woman died within five weeks.
Mifeprex has been used in more than 560,000 medical abortions in the United States and more than 1.5 million in Europe. The risks of death from infection after using the pill are similar to the risks after surgical abortions or childbirth, drug agency officials said.
When Mifeprex was first approved by the agency in 2000, the standard regimen was to give the drug in a doctor's office followed two days later by an oral dose of a different drug, misoprostol, also in a doctor's office. Women expelled the fetus over the following days or weeks in a process that mimicked a miscarriage. The procedure must begin within 49 days of conception.
Soon after Mifeprex's approval, most Planned Parenthood doctors switched to a different regimen, instructing women to insert misoprostol vaginally at home two to three
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Here we go again... it should be '4 more deaths'!
How long will it be before Planned Parenthood replaces their mantra against the many deaths due to, "back alley abortions" with warnings about the increasing abortion related deaths caused by, "pharmaceutical greed"?
Off-label usage after warnings, a systemic plan to ignore the FDA? What are the surviving family members going to do with all the PP offices they'll own once the ambulance chasers get done with PP?
If this was any other drug they'd be yanking it off the market.
Exactly. If I were in Walmart management, I would require a waiver be signed by anyone wanting to purchase this drug, just to avoid any lawsuite -- which are certain to follow. Just why Walmart caved in and agreed to sell this is beyond any common sense.
What's a few more deaths when you're swimming in a sea of death. It's all for the cause. Gotta keep the abortion industrial complex running.
Good point.
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I wonder if someone at PP was trained by Kevorkian?
Is this the drug they were trying to get from perscription to over-the-counter?
But this regimen was not approved by the drug agency. It is not unusual for doctors to use drugs differently from how they are officially approved. But as reports of deaths among women undergoing the procedure trickled into the F.D.A., government officials issued stern warnings that doctors should stick to the approved regimen.
Until Friday, Planned Parenthood had rejected those warnings.
Doesn't take a genius to realize PP is in for a number of wrongful death lawsuits.
Ironic, isn't it? Wrongful death.
Hmmmmm... call me a nutjob whacko if you want, but I view the death of a woman aborting her baby as poetic justice - kind of like nature's own version of the death penalty. I'm perfectly ok with this and would encourage PP to continue offing their clientele.
I argued not to long ago in a class I was taking when a girl did her presentation on abortion pills that they arent as safe as she says they are and that in fact there have been many complications, including excessive bleeding and deaths attributed to the pill.The only answer I got was that they could find no evidence to that fact.
"Is this the drug they were trying to get from perscription (sic) to over-the-counter?"
No. The morning after pill is a higher dosage of regular birth control pills, and does not work on a pregnancy that is already established. RU-486 is mifepristol, which is used on established pregnancies up to the eighth week.
It's good of you to ask, since people on these boards seem to have strong opinions on the two drugs, at the same time that they confuse them.
"The morning after pill is a higher dosage of regular birth control pills, and does not work on a pregnancy that is already established."
Planned Parenthood, a murderous, leftist organization, is also swimming in a sea of our tax money. Why won't the government stop this permanent subsidy of death? This subsidy is incomprehensible to me. Shouldn't we be shouting at Congress and PP, "Hey, hey! How many babies did you kill today!"
Also, ask the administration why the budget proposed by the President maintains (and sometimes increases) the amount.
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