Abortion Pill a No Go in Australia says Health Minister

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Now, only if we could get the FDA to do the same thing:
Abortion Pill a No Go in Australia says Health Minister
By Hilary White

CANBERRA, Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott announced yesterday that health risks associated with the abortion drug, RU-486 are serious enough that the killer drug will remain banned. Abbott said that though the drug itself may sometimes be a “preferable” method of abortion, it was unsafe when used in areas where there was limited access to obstetric facilities.
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Not sure it will happen, but here’s something interesting regarding the FDA decision to allow the Plan B pill in May, 2004:

FDA’s Morning-After Pill Decision Probed
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
Mon Nov 14,10:24 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Top federal health officials may have rejected easier access to the morning-after pill before reviewing all the scientific evidence, according to an independent audit Monday that renewed charges that politics trumped science.

Congressional auditors reported that the Food and Drug Administration’s May 2004 decision on emergency contraception deviated from 10 years of agency practice in evaluating over-the-counter sales of prescription drugs — and was unusual in several respects.

Critics in Congress declared their suspicions confirmed and urged the FDA’s boss to intervene to assure that a still pending reconsideration of the pill’s fate isn’t based on ideology.

“We are deeply opposed to this subversion of science,” Rep. Henry Waxman (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., and 17 other lawmakers wrote Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt on Monday. “It appears that the decision … was preordained from the outset.”

news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051115/ap_on_he_me/morning_after_pill_10
 
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