The Food and Drug Administration has asked the makers of 25 drugs, including the dangerous abortion pill mifepristone (RU 486), to submit safety plans later this year. The FDA published the list of drugs needing safety plans in the latest issue of the Federal Register and abortion drug maker Danco Laboratories made the list.
The drug manufacturers must devise a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) plan and submit it to the agency by September 21. Those who don't comply by the deadline face "enforcement action," which could include monetary penalties from FDA officials.
Fat lot of good that'll do. It's not the drug manufacturer that's causing the deaths. After all, the drugs that are part of the cocktail are therapeutic medications with legitimate uses. It's a choice to misuse them that's causing the trouble. Even if you consider abortion to be a legitimate use of medications, the abortionists in question are failing to follow the existing safety guidelines. Promulgating new ones won't change the character of the quacks who prescribe this stuff in violation of guidelines in the first place.
And of course it's women and families who pay the price:
These are just the women that the FDA found out about. People who administer drugs in an off-label manner aren't exactly the kind of people who are going to follow through on other matters, such as reporting the deaths to the proper authorities. Not to mention if a woman was keeping the abortion as secret, nobody may ever find out that it was abortion drugs that caused her death.
And then there are the cases where the woman manages to survive, such as the woman who was given RU-486 even though she was nine months pregnant and in the middle of a life-threatening medical crisis already.
More guidelines and recommendations won't stop this sort of behavior. People with that kind of callous disregard for human life belong in jail.
And, interestingly enough, in most of the US cases identified, the people in question worked either for Planned Parenthood or the National Abortion Federation.
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