As it has been unable to find an American or European manufacturer or distributor, RU486 is made in China just outside Shanghai by a drug maker cited by the US Food and Drug Administration for producing “tainted drugs”. China has banned the drug, not because it causes an abortion, but because it kills the women who take it! The company, Danco Pharmaceuticals, produces no other product and is headquartered in the tax haven of the Cayman Islands by a disbarred lawyer and convicted forger (see “Lonely death in chilly places” by Charles Francis, Herald Sun 16/2/06).
Two steps are necessary in this death procedure. 48 hours after taking RU486, an injection is needed. The injection of Cytotec (Misoprostol), manufactured by the reputable R. G. Searle Company, then completes the RU486 death process. (The Searle Co has given repeated warnings that Cytotec is a drug unsuitable for abortions.)
Several women have bled to death in trials of RU486. Canada banned the drug and further trials.
After a woman died in France, the French banned the trials on anyone under 18 or those who are smokers.
Legal action is being prepared against the whole procedure in the US because of deaths of women trialing the drug.(Two more deaths in March 2006) Although touted as a “safe” alternative for Australian women living in the bush, the US requires that those who take it be no more than 1 hour from a hospital that has complete resuscitation and transfusion facilities! Tony Abbott, our Federal Minister of Health should be congratulated for his principled stand against this drug.
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is effectively financed by the drug companies and have approved such destructive goods as Thalidomide (we all know about thalidomide babies), Ritalin (caused the sudden death of a seven-year-old and a five-year-old in Australia), Dexamphetamine for ADHD (the US Food and Drug Administration is reviewing 90 studies to determine whether ADHD drugs were linked to the deaths of 25 people) and other deadly drugs in the past.
ACTION:
1. We must assure the pharmaceutical companies that we are fully prepared to boycott any company that markets/distributes RU486. We’ve been given this “ground” - let’s keep it. Please write to Managing Director Mr John Young (and/or to Heather Jones, Manager of Marketing Strategies) at: Medicines Australia; Level 1; 16 Napier Close; Deakin ACT 2600 Ph 02 6282 6888 Fax 02 6282 6299 Email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
2. Please thank Hon Tony Abbott, MP, Parliament House Canberra 2600 or via our website. Simply go to our "lobby" page on our website then click Federal MPs
3. In the back of this newsletter we are listing ALL MPs and Senators who voted for and against this human pesticide. We are asking ALL our readers to thank those in defense of the lives of Australian women and children. Also remind those who represent us and defend Australian women and children that we cannot, in good conscience, vote for them in the future! This is serious!