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- <title>
- Mar. 08, 1993: Rethinking RU 486
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Mar. 08, 1993 The Search for the Tower Bomber
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 21
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Rethinking RU 486
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>With Clinton in, the French abortion pill may finally make it
- to the U.S.
- </p>
-
- <p> RU 486, the so-called French abortion pill, would probably sail
- through the persnickety approval process at the Food and Drug
- Administration--if someone would put in an application. The
- drug has few side effects, is safer than surgical abortion,
- and is very effective for ending a pregnancy in the first trimester.
- Though RU 486 would be a big seller, French manufacturer Roussel
- Uclaf has avoided seeking approval in the U.S. Reason: the militant
- antiabortion movement, which had supporters in Presidents Reagan
- and Bush.
- </p>
- <p> With Bill Clinton in charge, Roussel Uclaf may be reconsidering.
- Its president, Edouard Sakiz, met with FDA Commissioner David
- Kessler and agreed in principle that the U.S. should have RU
- 486. Sakiz prefers that another firm handle distribution. If
- he finds one, a large clinical trial could soon begin.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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