RU-486 + Bacteria = Death?

Government Calls Conference to Study 2 Deadly Infections

That's the question that a scientific conference is going to investigate. I have no idea whether the RU-486 is causing the bacterial infections that killed four women. My question is why RU-486 isn't being pulled off the shelves until we know one way or other as we do to pretty much other drug we suspect of having deadly side effects?

The answer is, of course, politics. Abortion activists have a lot invested in the success of RU-486. They will keep it on the shelves until they actually see a woman die in front of their eyes - and perhaps longer.

They don't care about women's health, despite all their protestations. They care about their politics and winning. If there is a link established between RU-486, all the activists who pressured the FDA for so many years and who made so many assurances about its safety will have not only egg on their faces, but blood on their hands. The politics of abortion and public opinion would change, and the pill's defenders know it. So they resist even taking ordinary precautions in a case like this.

I'm going on record as saying that the pills should be pulled off the shelves until we know for sure one way or the other. I only hope that no more women wind up dying in the name of abortion politics...