After 2 More Deaths, Planned Parenthood Alters Method for Abortion Pill

www.nytimes.com ^ | March 18, 2006 | GARDINER HARRIS

[Pharmboy]

This is new...PP seems interested in the health of the mother.

[YouPosting2Me]

Here we go again... it should be '4 more deaths'!

[finnigan2]

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"?

[NonValueAdded]

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?

[Mo1]

I see big time lawsuits in Plan Parenthood's future by ignoring the warnings

[Smittie]

If this was any other drug they'd be yanking it off the market.

[TommyDale]

"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.

[beaversmom]

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.

[beaversmom]

Good point.

[Calpernia]

ping

[sidegunner]

I wonder if someone at PP was trained by Kevorkian?

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

Is this the drug they were trying to get from perscription to over-the-counter?

[Balding_Eagle]

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 days after taking Mifeprex. Studies of the new regimen showed that it was effective, and it allowed women to take lower doses of misoprostol. It also meant fewer office visits for Planned Parenthood.

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.

[Capagrl]

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.

[aft_lizard]

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.

[linda_22003]

"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.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

So a pill designed to kill does. Nobody needs a medical degree to see that one coming.

Something I wonder. The pill came from Europe where it's been available for a while. One would think Planned Parenthood would be crowing from the rooftops about how "safe" it is using facts and figures from there. They would be beating about the head and neck with those stats. For some reason, they never mention it. Hmmm, I say.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"The morning after pill is a higher dosage of regular birth control pills, and does not work on a pregnancy that is already established."

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While it is correct that RU-486 is not the same as the "emergency contraception" (or "morning-after pill") that has recently been in the news, it is not correct to state that the morning-after pill does not "work on a pregnancy that is already established" (i.e., does not abort an embryo). The morning-after pill is an extremely high dose of birth-control pills and it works in one of two ways: If the woman hasn't ovulated yet, it helps prevent ovulation (in which case it would not be abortive), but if the woman already ovulated and the egg is fertilized, it prevents the embryo from attaching to the uterine wall (which is certainly abortive). So the morning-after pill is a form of abortion that only works in the first few days after the embryo is formed (before implantation in the uterine wall), while RU-486 is a form of abortion that works even after implantation. They both kill the baby, but RU-486 can kill bigger babies.

[Paulus Invictus]

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!"

[linda_22003]

Also, ask the administration why the budget proposed by the President maintains (and sometimes increases) the amount.