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Five Reasons Why the Abortion Industry
is Pushing RU 486 Harder –Part II
by Randy O'Bannon Ph.D. | Washington, DC | LifeNews.com |04/11/13
When RU-486, the abortion pill, was approved for sale in America
in September of 2000, this two-drug chemical abortion technique
didn’t simply appear out of the blue. It was the result of the years of
planning, research, and market analysis by the abortion industry, the
culmination of a long term strategy put in place decades earlier. Today,
that strategy is playing out in clinics all across America and
around the world.
So what was it the abortion industry saw? And what did they hope
to accomplish by adding chemical abortifacients to their already
deadly arsenal? Here are five reasons behind the abortion industry’s
push of the abortion pill and an indication of how far they’ve gotten
in fulfilling their awful aims:
Reason 4: Increase Income
For all the talk about “choice” and women’s health care, never forget
that those who are peddling these abortion pills are operating a business.
It is a fact that explains why a business that was losing customers was
anxious to come up with a new product; it explains why they have promoted
a different protocol than the one approved by the FDA; and it
explains why they are pushing web-cam abortions.
After abortions peaked in the U.S. in 1990 with 1.6 million, the
number has dropped as low as 1.2 million. Abortion rates among
younger customers had been in decline for some time and women
were being more and more turned off by surgical abortion. Prices for
abortions had not kept up with inflation and more and more doctors
were getting out of the business.
A “new and improved” product offered the industry a chance to
attract new customers or win back older ones (somewhere around
45% of all abortions are repeat abortions) who were intimidated by
the risks and indignities of surgical abortion or upset about aborting
unborn babies medical technology was clearly showing them to be
both human and alive.
The FDA approved protocol called for women no more than 49
days past their last menstrual period to receive three pills of RU-486
after being screened and being counseled about the process (which
they take there in the doctor’s office) which is to shut down the
baby’s support system and cause the child’s demise. Under the protocol,
the woman is to return to the doctor two days later to receive two
pills of misoprostol, taken by mouth, to stimulate powerful uterine
contractions to expel the tiny corpse. She is to return on day 14 to
confirm whether or not her abortion is complete.
It was under this protocol that the FDA declared the drug “safe”
and “effective.”
There were several things the industry did not like about this protocol,
however, and it was arguing for alternate protocols even before
the FDA gave final marketing approval.
RU-486 (or mifepristone) is a complex drug to manufacture and is
imported from China, so it is expensive, about $90 a pill. With three
of those pills running $270, the cost of three office visits, the personnel
to screen and counsel the patients, this left a slim profit margin, if
any. And if priced significantly higher than the surgical method, they
might have difficulty selling the new product.
In the name of increasing effectiveness and decreasing side effects,
the industry offered several modifications to the protocol,
modifications dubiously offering improvements in either safety or
effectiveness, but clearly increasing the abortionist’s profit margin
and decreasing requirements for office time, space, or personnel.
The newly promoted protocol reduced the number of expensive
mifepristone pills from three to one, but doubled the dose of the misoprostol,
which ran only a dollar or so a pill. The National Abortion
Federation (NAF) protocol allowed the woman to take the prostaglandin
(misoprostol) at home, rather than returning to the office,
eliminating at least one office visit. That industry protocol also extended
the cutoff date by two weeks, from 49 days LMP to 63 days
LMP, thereby opening the doors to a whole new group of customers.
Reports indicate that many are performed even past this limit.
Web-cam abortions present an even greater potential for revenues.
Rather than wasting time and gas traveling between multiple small
clinic offices, an abortionist can sit at a computer at a central administrative
office and, with the click of a mouse, dispense pills to different
women in dozens of remote location around the state. Any place
with an Internet connection can be set up as an abortion clinic.
As a consequence of such changes, chemical abortions now account
for 199,000 abortions a year, or at least 16.4% of all abortions
performed in the U.S. (as of 2008). How many of these women
would have gotten surgical abortions had chemical ones not been
available is unknown, but chemical abortion has certainly expanded
the reach of the industry into whole new communities.
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