Word: coburn
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Abortion foes also plan to drive home the medical risks associated with the drug, especially if it is misused or winds up circulating through an Internet black market. "It can be banned state by state or by Congress," says Michael Schwartz, administrative assistant to Representative Tom Coburn, a doctor from Oklahoma who last year tried to bar the FDA from spending federal funds to develop any kind of abortion drug. Schwartz thinks it is inevitable that the drug will be prescribed for women who are more than seven weeks pregnant, that there will be a lack of patient compliance...
...railed that "do-it-yourself-abortion has no place in civilized society." Others stuck to simpler, more familiar catch-phrases, with Rep. Christopher Smith (R-N.J.) calling RU-486 "baby poison" and Rep. Tom Coburn (R-Okh.) claiming that the FDA's decision was making available "a drug intended to kill people...
...Number of national politicians who endorsed him (Representative Tom Coburn, R-Okla...