Yabby,

Thank you. In the middle of all this angst and insult hurling your comment brought to mind the Monty Python scene with a family of millions singing Every Little Sperm is Sacred.

I know you made your comment seriously, as is everyone here, but I needed a bit of light relief.

It is ironic that the abortion lobby in Australia is pushing for the availability of the abortion drug RU 486 just when a Congressonal Committee in the US has a major investigation into the safety of the dangerous drug.

The RU 486 regimen has killed four women in California from lethal bacterial infections and caused sometimes severe complications for more than 675 other women. The committee sent a letter on December 21 to acting Federal Drug Aadministration commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach asking questions about the agency's own look into medical problems associated with the abortion drug.

The committee wants to know why it took so long for the drug's maker, Danco Laboratories, to add the risk of bacterial infection to the drug's warning label. The letter, authored by Rep. Mark Souder, an Indiana Republican, seeks physician, autopsy, and other records so that the subcommittee can conduct its own review, and asks about the off-label regimens often used with mifepristone.

Souder's interest in the off label use of the abortion drug comes after Planned Parenthood came under criticism for instructing women to disregard the FDA recommendation to use the second part of the abortion drug orally. The abortion business often instructs women to use the abortion drug vaginally, and that deviation from FDA protocols likely contributed to the four women developing the lethal infections.

Women's groups should be out front in calling for the suspension of RU-486 sales. Killing unborn children is bad enough without killing their mothers at the same time. I doubt the vast majority of feminists, pro-abortion activists, and liberal politicians will ever so much as cast a doubt on RU-486. Anyone who favors partial-birth abortion has gone beyond the reach of moral thinking.
The promotion of RU-486 is another step toward the easy, casual, and entirely unfettered use of abortion. How extraordinary to live in times in which killing nascent human life without any restrictions of any kind is the paramount concern of so many powerful people. Their mantra is: Abortion today, abortion tomorrow, abortion forever!

It always amuses me when members of the godsquad, preaching the mantra of the holy ovum and sperm, try to use US statistics to attack
RU 486, for they have clearly not done their homework.

Firstly the US has a population of about 280 million, so in those terms the figures are still pretty good. Secondly it has been made clear time and time again that RU 486 should be used in Australia in conjuction with advice and guidance from a doctor. If infection should happen, he/she will be there. In the US however, there is no Medicare. About 50 million people have no health insurance.

American doctors don't work cheap. So a good percentage of the population, rather then pay an arm and a leg, only go to the doctor in real life threatening emergencies. Under those circumstances, if RU 486 were to fail anywhere, it would be in the US. Compare that to the relatively problem free situation in Europe, where people have access to healthcare, as they do in Australia.

Perhaps the advice to the American Congress should be that its about time they introduced a 1st world healthcare system as most of the Western world has, so that all Americans can afford to see a doctor, as Australians can.

gbyrneg50,

Great post. Thanks for the information.

Yabby,

I don't know if it's true or not but iv'e been told that in Africa some tribes actually "cull" children that are not up to scratch. Do you think that is the next step. Firstly abortion then "culling". If you're going to play God anyway why not?

Friederich I know your fascination with God, but us agnostics will believe you when there is some substantiated evidence. The old boy is free to post his rules on the moon for all to see and leave us all in no doubt.

Meantime there have been countless humans claiming direct contact with the Almighty, countless religions, countless holy books, countless different gods. IMHO they are no more then snakeoil salesmen, taking advantage of the gullible.

Fact is that about 95% of people stick to the religion that was brainwashed into them as kids. So had you been born in say Iraq, you would most likely be reading your Koran, if you had been born in India, you most likely would be a devout Hindu

Yabby,

I understand where you're coming from. I've been there myself.

Cheers

Friedrich