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...Administration (FDA) made the landmark decision to approve RU-486--otherwise known as "mifepristone"--for use in the United States after almost twenty years of deliberation and testing in the midst of roiling controversy. First available in France in 1988, and now used widely across Europe and China, the pill provides an alternative to surgical abortion by chemically inducing miscarriage. Although RU-486 can currently be prescribed only at special clinics and designated hospitals, the drug will soon become available to practitioners across the country...
...recent FDA approval of the RU-486 pill made the thorny issue of abortion a talking point at the debate as well. While Bush, who opposes abortion rights, said he would not try to overturn the approval if he was president, he said he was against a culture that accepts more abortions and restated his opposition to partial-birth abortion...
Gore said that the pill was safe and that women should be allowed to keep the right to choose, which he would uphold with his potential appointments to the Supreme Court...
...TIME has learned that Shalala was so concerned about the administration being accused of ramrodding the abortion pill through the FDA for political reasons in the middle of a tight election that she made it clear to the White House that she did not want anyone there at all involved in the process at all. Message: Butt out. "She's smart," says a key HHS official. "She knew the press was going to ask whether any of this was done for political reasons, and she wanted to answer to be no." Shalala issued strict instructions to her staff to respond...
...Because there are heightened concerns for security every time abortion is in the headlines. Plus, no one is sure sure how the abortion pill decision will play with the general public. Women's rights organizations are thrilled. Right-to-lifers hate it. But there is a large middle group of Americans who have strong views on abortion, and no one can predict if they will approve of making abortion easier, even if medical data shows the drug is safer than surgical abortion. "If we had our choice, this would not have come in election season," says one official...