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Australian Leading Democrat on RU-486 – Some May Die But It’s Worth the Risk
by Hilary White
SYDNEY, February 17, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Hailing the decision to make the abortion drug RU-486 approved for wider distribution, Australian Democrat leader Lyn Allison said, “Pregnancy is not safe. A whole lot of things about women's reproductive health are very dangerous, in fact.”
Allison said, “The protocols doctors will adopt here will ensure the safety of women. But I can't say that it's going to be 100 per cent certain to be safe.”
Liberal senator Judith Troeth was in tears as she said, without apparent irony, that the wide distribution of RU-486 is a victory for future generations of Australian women. Troeth called it “a victory for common sense ... for the nation's daughters and granddaughters.”
Troeth dismissed the deaths associated in other countries with RU-486 saying that it is bacterial infection, not the drug that caused them. “The death rate from this particular drug is much less, for example, than (from) Viagra,” she said.
Research has shown clearly, however, that it is the drug that is the agent that lowers the body’s immune system leaving it open to septic shock.
Professor Ralph P. Miech, a professor emeritus in the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology, and Biotechnology at Brown University, published his findings in the Annals of Pharmacotherapy. He found that the drug causes changes in the cervix that allow C. sordellii, a common vaginal bacteria, to enter the cervical canal. C. sordellii thrives feeding on the rotting tissue of the dead child.
RU-486, also called Mifepristone, disrupts the immune system, which Miech said, “impairs the body's ability to fight off C. sordellii and may help spread the bacteria's toxic by-products, a combination that sometimes results in widespread septic shock.”
The US Food and Drug Administration is reviewing its approval of the drug while other countries have banned it outright.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Australia Votes to Allow Chemical Abortion Drug RU-486
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/feb/06021604.html
Leading Researcher Proves RU-486 Causes Septic Shock Deaths
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2005/jul/05072802.html
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