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Tuesday August 31, 2010 Not Talking: Planned Parenthood Tightlipped after Revoking PP Name from Affiliate By Peter J. SmithSAN FRANCISCO, California, Aug. 31, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Planned Parenthood (PP) Federation of America is not divulging the details behind its decision to revoke its trademark from a San Francisco area affiliate. The decision to distance itself from one of its own affiliates is a step that is rarely taken by PP: even those clinics caught violating the law by pro-life undercover reporter Lila Rose in recent years have retained full enjoyment of the PP name. Planned Parenthood of the Golden...

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...

Federal drug regulators have discovered that all four women in this country who died after taking an abortion pill suffered from a rare and highly lethal bacterial infection, a finding that is leading to new scrutiny of the drug's safety. Since all four deaths occurred in California, an unusual clustering, the Food and Drug Administration quietly tested to see if abortion pills distributed in California were somehow contaminated. They were not. Stumped, officials from the F.D.A. and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have decided to convene a scientific meeting early next year to discuss this medical mystery,...

THE FORGOTTEN VICTIMS OF CHOICE By Michelle Malkin   ·   August 15, 2005 04:44 PM The Los Angeles Times reports: Health officials are investigating whether there are any links in the cases of four California women — at least two in Los Angeles County — who have died since 2003 of massive infection after taking the so-called abortion pill, RU-486, and a follow-up drug. The state and federal probe follows an announcement last month by the Food and Drug Administration, after the June death of a Sherman Oaks woman, warning doctors and patients of the potential for serious bacterial infection under...

The controversial RU-486 abortion pill, which 18-year-old Holly Patterson of Livermore took a week before dying of a massive infection in September 2003, would be at least temporarily pulled from U.S. markets under federal legislation reintroduced last week. Republican lawmakers have reintroduced "Holly's Law," which would suspend Food and Drug Administration approval of RU-486 until the federal Government Accountability Office scrutinizes the process by which the drug came to U.S. markets in 2000. Backers of Holly's Law contend RU-486 was approved by the FDA under political pressure from the Clinton administration under a "fast-track" review process normally reserved for drugs...

When ephedrine was believed to be the cause of death for several athletes, notably Baltimore Orioles pitcher Steven Bechler, the government’s response was swift and effective: The FDA banned it in February of 2004. When it comes to abortion, there is always a different set of rules. Mifepristone, also known as RU-486, has been linked to the deaths of three women and six hundred complications since the FDA approved its sale and distribution in the United States in 2000 in the waning months of the Clinton Administration. Ignoring the usual standards for the approval of a questionable drug, the FDA...

The family of a young woman whose September 2003 death was linked to the abortion pill are now suing the manufacturer of the drug and Planned Parenthood, according to Austin Ruse of the Culture of Life Foundation. Shortly after her eighteenth birthday Holly Patterson took Mifeprex (RU-486. She was rushed to the hospital for terrible pain, heavy bleeding, and cramps. Three days later, she returned to the hospital where she subsequently died. The autopsy revealed that her death was "due to endomyometritis (inflammation)" caused by "therapeutic, drug-induced abortion." According to Ruse, the FDA has received 676 reports of problems in...

Livermore, CA (LifeNews.com) -- The parents of California teenager Holly Patterson, who died after taking the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug in September 2003, discussed the lawsuit they filed against the maker of the abortion drug with a local newspaper. In an interview with the Contra Costa Times, the Pattersons said the lawsuit is their latest effort to draw attention to the risks associated with mifepristone. "We've basically been doing a lot of work all year to bring about awareness and question the safety of this drug, and have been working on a lot of fronts," Holly's father Monty Patterson...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - (KRT) - The parents of a Livermore, Calif., teen who died last year after an RU-486 abortion have sued the drug's maker, health care providers and others over their alleged role in her death. Holly Patterson died in September 2003 of septic shock, caused by inflammation of the membrane of the uterus, several weeks after taking RU-486 to terminate her unwanted pregnancy. She was 18. More than a year later, her death continues to spark controversy over the so-called "abortion pill," sold under the brand name Mifeprex by Danco Laboratories. In the lawsuit, filed Friday in...

Livermore, CA (LifeNews.com) -- The parents of California teenager Holly Patterson, who died last year after complications from the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug, are suing the maker of the abortion pill. The Pattersons filed wrongful death and product liability lawsuits against New York-based Danco Laboratories. In September 2003, Holly Patterson received the RU 486 abortion drug, also known as Mifeprex or mifepristone, from a Planned Parenthood abortion facility near San Francisco. She reported severe pain and bleeding afterwards and died days later at a local hospital. In October 2003, the Alameda County Coroner's office determined that Patterson died as...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The father of a California teenager who died last year as a result of using the dangerous RU 486 abortion drug says expanded warnings announced by the FDA yesterday for the drug are insufficient to protect young women like his daughter. Monty Patterson, father of Holly Patterson, told the New York Times he was glad the FDA expanded the labels saying, "Holly did not die in vain." However, he said the action was not enough. "How many more deaths is it going to take before the FDA takes action to remove this drug from the market,"...

The grieving father of a teenager who died after taking the abortion pill has become a powerful ally of anti-choice activists in the fight to ban the drug. Planned Parenthood says Holly's death is a tragedy but that medical abortion is safe. SAN FRANCISCO (WOMENSENEWS)--Monty Patterson lost his daughter Holly just a few weeks after her 18th birthday last September. Holly had taken RU-486, an abortion drug that has been used by more than 1 million women worldwide and is widely viewed as a safe alternative to surgical abortion. But Holly died tragically of a massive infection after taking the...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- The parents of Holly Peterson, who died after using a checmical abortion drug she obtained from Planned Parenthood, say they believe the number of women who have died after using the abortion pill is "widely underreported." The statement comes after a state health agency found that the abortion business and a medical center that treated Holly before her death improperly reported Holly's abortion death to authorities. "We are appalled by the lack of reporting and accountability of Planned Parenthood and ValleyCare Medical Center to report Holly's death to the State of California DHS," Monty Patterson and...

From eastbayexpress.com Originally published by East Bay Express Dec 17, 2003 ©2003 New Times, Inc. All rights reserved. The Making of a MartyrHolly Patterson's death devastated her family, but gave new life to longtime foes of RU-486.BY KARA PLATONI Courtesy of Debbie Patterson Three factors have conspired to make Holly the ideal poster girl: Her story is tragic, she was beautiful, and she could’ve been anyone.   Courtesy of Debbie Patterson "I really felt Holly didn't want to disappoint me or her father or her grandparents or her friends," Debbie Patterson says. "When she found herself in a predicament, I...

<p>Planned Parenthood's outspoken activists remain stone-cold silent about Holly Patterson. She is the teenager who died of tragic complications from taking the abortion drug cocktail RU-486, which she obtained from a northern California Planned Parenthood clinic in September. Holly and her unborn child suffered a painful, bloody and prolonged death.</p>

'Remember Holly Patterson'; San Francisco Youth Mobilize to Fight Planned Parenthood 11/19/03 10:54:00 AM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To: City Desk Contact: Erik Whittington of the American Life League, 540-226-9004; e-mail: ewhittington@all.org; Web site: http://www.rockforlife.org SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19 /U.S. Newswire/ -- American Life League's Rock For Life, the nation's premier pro-life youth organization, is launching the "Remember Holly Patterson" campaign. This new project will rally San Francisco area youth to expose the falsehoods spread by the country's largest abortion provider, Planned Parenthood Federation of America. "Planned Parenthood targets the lives of the preborn with scalpels, suction devices and pills, while deceiving...

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- In an open letter written today to members of Congress, the parents of Holly Patterson, the California teenager who died after taking the RU 486 abortion drug, endorsed legislation that would suspend the FDA's approval of the drug pending a Congressional review. "We will actively support 'Holly's Law' in Congress by Reps. DeMint, Bartlett and Senator Brownback to suspend and review the abortion drug RU 486," Monty and Helen Patterson say in their letter. "Holly depended on the safety of the FDA approved pill administered by Planned Parenthood," the Pattersons continued. "The FDA has failed to...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-abortion lawmakers are preparing to renew their fight to halt sales of the abortion pill RU-486 after a California woman's death was linked to the pill. Rep. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., said at least four dozen lawmakers are backing a bill he planned to introduce Thursday that would suspend the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the use of RU-486, also called mifepristone, pending an audit by the congressional General Accounting Office. "This is all about the health of women and getting women the right information about a drug that is clearly dangerous," DeMint said. The legislation was...

<p>LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) - The Alameda County Coroner's Office has confirmed that a therapeutic drug-induced abortion led to the death of an 18-year-old Livermore woman who died Sept. 17. According to the autopsy report released Friday, Holly Patterson died of septic shock caused by endomyometritis, an inflammation of the uterus. The report says that endomyometritis was caused by a drug-induced abortion.</p>

The coroner's preliminary report put in writing what Monty Patterson says he already knew in his heart: His 18-year-old daughter, Holly, died Sept. 17 of complications from a drug-induced abortion. His daughter didn't have to die, Patterson said in an interview Saturday. The Alameda County Coroner's Office had released a preliminary autopsy report the day before. ``Yes, Holly died of septic shock, which was caused by endomyometritis, which was caused by an abortion pill,'' Patterson said. ``But we're dancing around the issues.''