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- <text id=93TT1591>
- <title>
- May 03, 1993: Here Comes RU 486
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- May 03, 1993 Tragedy in Waco
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 25
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- Here Comes RU 486
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>U.S. approval of the French abortion pill moves closer--but
- slowly
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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