Court is getting to be to the Christian Coalition's liking: "Ban RU486!"

[Bluebear]

To: National Desk

Contact: Michele Combs, Director of Communication for the Christian Coalition, 202-479-6900, [e-mail]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 /Christian Wire Service/ -- Christian Coalition of America commends Congressman Roscoe Bartlett, (R-MD), for reintroducing his "Holly's Law" legislation, H.R. 1079 (with 78 cosponsors) during the 109th Congress. And Senator Jim DeMint, (R-SC), is also to be commended for authoring the Senate version, S. 511, (with 12 cosponsors) of Congressman Bartlett's legislation. Congressman Bartlett has discovered new evidence in FDA documents, which show an unacceptably high incidence of deaths and terrible injuries to women who take the RU486 abortion pill.

The Bartlett/DeMint legislation will withdraw the approved application under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act for the drug commonly known as RU-486 and provides for a review by the Comptroller General of the United States of the process by which the Food and Drug Administration approved such a drug.

The President of the Christian Coalition of America, Roberta Combs said, "Christian Coalition of America wholeheartedly supports "Holly's Law." It is almost criminal that the federal government has refused to remove this deadly abortion pill from the market when young girls' lives have been destroyed after taking RU486. If Members of Congress really care about the lives and health of women in this country, it is long past time for the United States Congress to pass "Holly's Law."

http://www.earnedmedia.org/cc0201.htm

[Beaverhausen]

1. Who is it that keeps saying Roe v. Wade won't be overturned?

Still think so?

[Warren DeMontague]

8. Personally, I think Roe v. Wade is just the beginning.

They're going after ALL legal birth control, folks.

[Beaverhausen]

15. I agree

and I get so pissed when people say it will be a "good thing" because then people will really "wake up."

:eyes:

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

2. I misread it as "Holy Law" instead of holly...

I think it should be called Holy-roller law. Crazy zealots!

[dogday]

3. Did not take any time with this

there is another post about an organization trying to put pressure on Justice Stephens to retire. These people are organized, that is one thing we need to admit. We also need to admit they have had plans in place for decades.

They were just waiting for Alito's nomination to start this. This will be one of many actions we will start to see...

[sandnsea]

6. I keep saying

we've got to do a better organizing job and the only response I get is being told to get off my high horse. *sigh*

[dogday]

10. In order to beat your opponent, you must

know them. These guys have a plan, a plan that has been in the works for years. They all have playbooks and we are runnings our plays blindly. That is the analogy I can think of to explain that we need to make a plan and make a playbook and follow the book.

[davidinalameda]

4. exceptionally high number?

I've heard of five deaths so far

other drugs on the market have higher mortality rates so why aren't they targeting them

hmm?

[Warren DeMontague]

5. Yeah, and next comes the ban on all oral contraceptives.

Young girls must be protected at all costs!

[Bluebear]

7. EVERY sperm is precious, you know.

Choose life! :sarcasm:

[shoelace414]

9. That's right, because without birth control, kids won't have sex.

(and it doesn't matter if a married woman wants birth control either)

[Ally McLesbian]

11. The religious tyranny has gone too far

I've just had a "guest" this morning at my office, who insisted that I get married and have kids, because that's God's way. He also reiterated the fact that America is a God-blessed country, and that the likes of gay marriage are leading the place astray.

I was so incensed that I required a psychiatric intervention. No kidding.

I should have perhaps told him that America has enough hatemongers already, and that we don't need to import extra ones like him from Korea (he's Korean).

The Surinamese have destroyed the vaunted Dutch tolerance. Don't let the Koreans do the same to our fine blue states! With John Yoo, Reverend Moon, and last month's "Korean-American Day," this is as right wing special interest a community as anything gets, folks!

[Double T]

12. The SOB sure didn't waste any time rolling out their ANTI-ABORTION......

legislation, AGAIN!!!! Looks like this whole issue will have to fought all over again.

[Blue_Forney05]

13. I can just imagine all those phony anti-abortion teens

who won't be able to use "the pill or condoms" anymore is the religious reich has its way.

[MrMonk]

14. Who is this "Holly", and why does she need her own law?

[LibertyLover]

18. A California teenager, Holly Peterson

who, in 2003, used RU-486 and died. An FDA review determined that a casual relationship between her death, as well as the 4 others blamed on RU-486, and the use of the drug could not be determined. However her parents now are working to ban mifeprex. Presumably this "Holly's Law" is one of their efforts.

[LibertyLover]

16. They are working towards banning all contraception

Banning abortions is just the tip of the iceberg for the fundy "pro-lifers". What they really want to do is ban all contraception with the only "birth control" being the Natural Family Planning method (a supposedly more scientific version of the rhythm method). As one scientist remarked - We have a name for people who practice NFP - we call them parents.

Some groups, and not just the right-wing Catholic groups either, even go so far as to say that any sex which is not for procreation is sinful and evil. They have this bizarre world view that everything would be just fine if things were the way they (never) were in the 1950s - dad at the office all day, mom at home in a dress, pearls and apron making dinner, lots of children, family going to (Protestant) church on Sundays. However, since they don't know history or sociology they have no clue that the whole "Father Knows Best", "Leave it to Beaver" lifestyle was the norm for a relatively few families, even in the 1950s.

We are in for a very rough time in this country. I'm glad that I no longer need to worry about family planning. But I have a 3 year old daughter and I'm terrified for her sake.

[sinkingfeeling]

17. I think it's great that Repub Congressmen and senators know so

very much more than scientists! They have all these studies to prove they know best. And of course, they're only trying to protect dumb, incompetent young women, who are not capable of making their own decisions.

[Beaverhausen]

19. Kick

this is important folks.

or maybe it is to just some of us.

[SillyGoose]

20. FDA info about the four women who died from sepsis after taking RU486

November 4, 2005 Update: This update provides additional information about the four women referred to in the July 19, 2005, alert (see below) who died of sepsis (a severe illness caused by infection of the bloodstream) following medical abortions in the United States. Since the July alert, FDA has learned that all four women were infected with the same type of bacteria. In addition, FDA has tested batches of Mifeprex and misoprostol and has not found any contamination with this type of bacteria.

FDA ALERT– FDA is aware of four women in the United States who died from sepsis (severe illness caused by infection of the bloodstream) after medical abortion with Mifeprex and misoprostol. Sepsis is a known risk related to any type of abortion. The symptoms in these cases were not the usual symptoms of sepsis. We do not know whether using Mifeprex or misoprostol caused these deaths. Patients should contact a healthcare professional right away if they have taken these medicines and develop stomach pain or discomfort, or have weakness, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea with or without fever, more than 24 hours after taking misoprostol. These symptoms, even without a fever, may indicate sepsis. Make sure your healthcare practitioner knows you are undergoing a medical abortion.

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/infopage/mifepristone/