Sept. 29 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The U.S. Food and Drug administration has approved the “human pesticide” RU-486.
“Campaign Life Coalition is shocked that a dangerous drug has been given such approval in the U.S. and we will strenuously oppose its acceptance in Canada. This pill is deadly to the preborn child and extremely dangerous for the woman who takes it,” says Jim Hughes, National President of Campaign Life Coalition.
Exelgen, the French company owning the rights to the drug, acknowledges the danger. Exelgen founder Edouard Sakiz, himself, has admitted that RU-486 causes women “an appalling psychological ordeal” (LeMonde-Guardian Weekly-August 19, 1990 p.16).
RU-486 requires three or four medical visits over one to two weeks and is neither simple, effective nor safe. The woman will deliver a dead baby wherever she happens to be. She will also have to return to the doctor to ensure that the entire baby has been aborted.
It should be noted that the U.S. rights to RU-486 are held by the Population Council, a non-profit family planning research group based in New York, with Danco as its licensee. Danco has alliances with National Abortion Federation, Planned Parenthood of America and the National Abortion Rights Action League. Considering the potential profit to be made on this pill, the motives of the promoters must be called into question.
Canadian pro-lifers have always vigorously opposed the expansion of abortion via abortion-inducing drugs and we will continue our active campaign against this drug and all abortion.