OK this article, Deaths Prompt Abortion Pill Warning has annoyed me.
Apparently there have been a whopping four deaths of women who used RU-486 over the last four years.
Four. Out. Of. 460,000. Women.
FOUR
This leads the FDA, with its newly appointed chairman, to put out a nice new warning that, gasp, RU-486 might kill you??? And what’s even more annoying than that is if you make it past the shocking and terrifying headline you will see that it was not the RU-486 that killed these women, it was a strain of bacteria called Clostridium sordelli.
Now if the FDA admits that they have no evidence that indicates the RU-486 caused the deaths then why put out a message saying “Deaths Prompt Abortion Pill Warning� Why not put out an article that says “Clostridium sordelli†caused fourth deaths? Or more to the point, why not “Deaths prompt childbirth warnings� Because Clostridium sordelli is a risk for women who give birth as well.
Take a moment to google Clostridium Sordelli – you will find reports of men dying of this infection after knee surgery and women dying of this infection after childbirth. It’s not the RU-486 folks, it’s the bacteria.