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...will increase as controversial new drugs surface and unconventional uses for old ones increase--such as those used in physician-assisted suicide. A recent survey of 625 pharmacists showed that 82% of them believe they have the right to refuse to fill a prescription for a drug such as RU-486 that would facilitate abortions. A new era of conscientious objection may be dawning...
PARIS: Bowing to boycott threats from American anti-abortion groups, European pharmaceutical giant Hoechst transferred non-U.S. patent rights to the abortion pill RU-486 to one of the doctors who invented it. Although Edouard Sakiz, who headed Roussel Uclaf, the company that lead the development of RU-486 before it was acquired by Hoechst, will market the drug worldwide through a new company, he said he will not do business in the U.S. Once the drug wins approval, it will be distributed by The Population Council, a New York-based non-profit that received the U.S. patent from...
Dennis Rodman, upset about Ru Paul not being in the crowd, refuses to take the floor for the fourth. Gene Siskel appears to be balding--the fans are clearly nervous...
...decision will please women who want nonsurgical abortions. It will also give researchers the green light to look into RU-486's promise as a treatment for cancer and a glandular condition known as Cushing's syndrome...
...antiabortion activists, however, it is a disaster. RU-486 can be given in a doctor's office rather than an abortion clinic, so protesters won't know where to set up their picket lines. The drug does have some serious drawbacks: it has to be taken within seven weeks of a woman's last menstrual period; it fails about 5% of the time; and it can have side effects, including cramping, nausea and severe bleeding. In Europe it is used for only about 20% of all abortions. But in the U.S., where women routinely run protest gauntlets at clinic doors...