Perhaps Donna Harrison can tell us if she is a Catholic, or part of the US fundamentalist movement.

Kenny

Thats Zygotes ... no¿ {{Megottes!! - shudder}}

Not hapless haploids, either - but human life.

The real thing.

When you have earned or acquired the right to kill that human life; may be deminished by whatever ethic you subscribe to - and a deminishing ethic is what you do seem to aspire to.

(Okay its the acorn oak tree debate ... go figure. But killing is the correct verb by whatever perspective !

Dunno. Of course...

Good point, Denk.

That's about the best you'll get out of Tanya Plibersek. She's such a lightweight, the only place she feels safe is on the pro-choice bandwagon.

The arguments for and against any pharmaceutical are well worth balancing for a reasoned response, but what should be remembered here is that is not happening while a minister is responsible for making the decision.

Banning or allowing a drug such as RU486 should left in the hands of an independant body, all the discussions can be held openly with no-one having to wonder how the decision was made.

Ok I checked, some of the Catholic websites say that she is part of the pro life movement. That explains alot.

But its not really a problem to destroy Donna's arguments on medical terms, for she has missed a critical point. For RU 486 to work effectively, its best if patients are under supervision of a doctor.
Donna mentions problems in the US. Sure there will be. Roughly 40-50 million Americans don't have health insurance. They only go to a doctor if they feel they have to, or they land up with a huge bill,
American doctors don't work cheap most of the time.

So imagine if somebody in the US, without health insurance, eventually goes to a doctor to get a script. The doctor says to come back if there is a problem. In Australia, that patient can go back to a doctor, if they believe that there is a problem. In America they can go back, only if they pay an arm and a leg. So people are more likely not to go, unless they are convinced that there is a problem. Hence more deaths in America then in say Europe. All very
logical...

Some people on here confuse human life with human persons, big difference. They need to read up on basic evolution theory to understand natures laws. Darwin was right after all... In any species, there will be far more potential persons/animals, then can ever survive. Every night, billions of eggs and sperms are flushed down the worlds toilets. Women shed around 400 eggs in their lives.
Sadly not all can survive, yet all could be cute babies.
A person has a functioning brain. What would you do if a sperm met
an ova down in a sewer? Panic that human life is being lost?

Just another cynical attempt by a committed pro-life person to try and influence Australians by selectively using statistics. If Donna Harrison feels that she has sound medical reasons to support her views, then let her present her case to the appropriate Australian medical bodies and see how far that gets her.