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Although the philosophical center of the abortion debate has always been the woman and what was going on in her womb, its public center was the doctor who performs abortions and what was going on in his clinic. RU 486, its adherents hope, will permit medicine to achieve what politics has made problematic: allowing the issue of abortion to be a private matter between a woman and her doctor. "You can't stop a woman from visiting a doctor," a securities analyst who follows the drug industry told the Wall Street Journal. "It becomes a private transaction. And that...
...miracle drug: the protesters disappear. So do the signs, the fetus. Why? Because the clinic, too, is gone, replaced by the privacy of thousands of anonymous doctors' offices. That, say some, is the elementary physics of RU...
With the arrival of RU 486 in the U.S. -- especially in a form that requires the woman merely to take pills rather than also get a shot -- the vision of some pro-choice advocates, that the drug could abort the abortion debate, will be tested. Will antiabortion activists find ways to restrict the availability of the abortion pill? And if not, will RU 486 really obviate the clinics and confound the picketers...
STEP BY STEP, THE FRENCH ABORTION PILL RU 486 has been inching its way toward approval for use in the U.S. Under President Clinton, who supports abortion rights, the Food and Drug Administration first dropped its opposition to the French-developed pill. Now comes another step. After years of refusing even to seek American permission to market its product out of fear of becoming enmeshed in the abortion controversy, manufacturer Roussel Uclaf has agreed to license the pill to the Population Council, based in New York City...
Under the agreement, the nonprofit family-planning group is charged with the daunting task of finding a company willing to make the pill, as well as with setting up clinical tests in 2,000 American women, though 120,000 women have already received RU 486 from clinics in France, Britain and Sweden. Approval for marketing is years away...