VANCOUVER, July 7 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Ellen Wiebe, a controversial abortionist in British Columbia has announced that she has legally commenced the first experimentation with the deadly RU-486 abortion pill on Canadian women and their unborn children. Although the federal government has shied away from the drugs due to health considerations, the radically pro-abortion BC government has insisted on the trials and has funded the experimentation with at least $52,000 through the Vancouver-Richmond regional health board. The Vancouver Sun reports that the approval for the year-long study came April 26. The experimentation commenced 10 days ago in Vancouver, Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Que. and Women’s College Hospital in Toronto.
The driving force behind the push for RU-486 is to increase availability of abortions which translates into increased numbers. Mathewes-Green notes a 1998 Kaiser Foundation survey in which 45 percent of family practice doctors said they would be willing to dispense RU 486, though just 3 percent had ever done a surgical abortion. Moreover Mathewes-Green says that while a woman might find that arranging travel to the big-city clinic isn’t worth the hassle, picking up some pill from her hometown drugstore might be too easy to refuse.
Opponents have constantly warned that, besides being an abortion pill that kills a new human life, RU-486 has many serious negative health dangers for women who use this powerful and complex drug procedure. They also warn that women are being used, abused and subjected to likely long-term serious health hazards for the sake of drug company profits and social engineering agendas such as radical feminism and population control.
For more on RU-486 and its many serious complications see The RU-486 Files
(with files from Pro-Life E-News)