RU-486
The medication "mifepristone" was invented in France by Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu in 1980. It is widely know as "RU-486" throughout North America. The letters is taken from the initials of the pharmaceutical company Roussel-Uclaf. The "486" is an arbitrary lab serial number. 1 It was first introduced in France, where it is called Mifegyne. c It has been used, in combination with prostaglandin medication, to induce abortions in about 500,000 women over almost 2 decades.Over the last fifteen years, dozens of clinical studies on RU-486 have been conducted with thousands of women in over 20 countries, including France, Britain, Spain, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the U.S., Scandinavia, and the former Soviet Union. 11 In 1999, mifespristone was approved for marketing in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, the Netherlands and Spain. 15 Danco Laboratories, the U.S. distributor expected to be selling the pill in that country by the end of 1999. 11 That did not happen; FDA finally approved the pill for U.S. distribution on 2000-SEP-28. It will be distributed under the name "Early Option Pill." In late 1988, Roussel-Uclaf started distribution of the drug in France
S. Boyd, "Give us liberty: The approval of RU-486 isn't about morals, it's about optons," Salon.com at: (This may be a temporary posting) It seemed more like a natural miscarriage. An editorial in the Vatican newspaper, which is thought to reflect the beliefs of Pope John Paul II, referred to RU-486 as the "pill of Cain: the monster that cynically kills its brothers.'' On 1998-JUN-24, the U.S. House passed a bill to bar approval of RU-486 by the Food and Drug Administration. The vote was 223 to 202. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said that if the pill were approved, it would be "killing babies". Also, he said that it would violate the FDA's directive of approving drugs that are "safe and effective." The bill was never signed into law. 1999-AUG-25: Switzerland: A pro-life group in Switzerland, Swiss Aid for Mother and Child (ASME) has appealed to a Swiss court to overrule the decision of the Inter-Cantonal Office for Control of Medicines (OICM), and thus prevent the introduction of RU-486 to that country. Nobody knows, for certain, what changes will happen to abortion provision in the U.S. Some indication can be obtained from experience in other countries:
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