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"Pro-life groups say the lawsuit is appropriate"

I don't see how the pro-life people can say this is appropriate. It is tragic that this poor girl died just weeks after her 18th birthday. She had her whole life ahead of her. But did she not take this pill to end a pregancy? Did she not die of septic shock when she started expelling the fetus from her body? She wasn't married. She got pregnant and chose the "easy" way out....murdering the unborn. She didn't buy this drug from a street pusher, she got it from a Planned Parenthood clinic, the very antithesis of the pro-life movement.

And they can't blame this one on President Bush either, Klintoon was the one that pushed this drug through.

#6..I don't see how the pro-life people can say this is appropriate..

Why?

What don't you understand about filing a lawsuit against a dangerous drug....one that is not regulated ...and promoted as a quick fix cure all!!

Yes, the young woman willingly took the drug....

..no doubt, influenced by the propaganda from Planned Parenthood and her peers.

This lawsuit is very appropriate!!

Did she not die of septic shock when she started expelling the fetus from her body?

LifeSite, being a dishonest single-issue advocacy organization, always neglects to mention some important facts about this case. Holly had been bleeding heavily and in severe pain for several days -- all symptoms which she would certainly have been told to look out for and seek immediate medical attention for (not that anyone in their right mind would need to be told that such symptoms require prompt medical attention, regardless of whether one had taken any drug or undergone any procedure). She sought medical attention early on, but failed to tell doctors that she had taken RU-486 or been pregnant, and left the hospital. Her symptoms continued to worsen and she did not seek medical attention again. When her father found her writhing and crying in pain at his house, she lied and told him she just had bad menstrual cramps. Then she departed for her boyfriend's house to spend the night (she was 18 -- nothing her father could have done to stop her). The boyfriend finally took her to the hospital in the middle of night, when things had gotten much worse, but it was too late.

This girl died from stupidity, not from RU-486. Any number of medications and/or the underlying conditions for which they are prescribed, can produce bad complications, which can be fatal if not treated. If you go to your doctor with a severe infection, and s/he prescribes an anitbiotic, warning you that it may not work, and that if your symptoms worsen, you need to get to a hospital quickly, and then you fail to go to a hospital as your symptoms worsen for days on end, and you finally die, your relatives have no business suing the maker of the antibiotic or the doctor who prescribed it.

The precise mode of Holly's death was absolutely identical to that associated with untreated complications of natural miscarriage. Who does LifeSite want to see sued when a girl who doesn't want to tell anyone she's pregnant, dies because she refuses to seek medical attention after she miscarries and develops severe complications?