Monday, August 15, 2005

Where have all those people gone?

The Los Angeles Times is reporting:

Health officials are investigating whether there are any links in the cases of four California women — at least two in Los Angeles County — who have died since 2003 of massive infection after taking the so-called abortion pill, RU-486, and a follow-up drug.

The state and federal probe follows an announcement last month by the Food and Drug Administration, after the June death of a Sherman Oaks woman, warning doctors and patients of the potential for serious bacterial infection under certain circumstances.

Blogger Michelle Malkin asks where are "the usual crowd of pharmaceutical-bashers, who undoubtedly would have lobbied for any other drug with such health outcomes to be pulled." She notes "they have nothing to say about these deaths."

Come to think of it, where are the folks who are always ready to defend our right-to-privacy?

Have you heard anything from them since The New York Times' attempted to get into the Roberts children's sealed adoption records?

Can the pharmaceutical-bashers and the right-to-privacy folks all be on vacation?

I hope a Big Media figure like Maureen Dowd, David Gergen, or Ted Rall will tell us where the folks are and why they're so silent.

I mean, they can't all be on vacation in the Hamptons, can they?

3 comments:

Jeff H said...

They're not all on vacation--they're all on the same page of the moonbat manual.

Anonymous said...

They're out in front of Crawford using the porta-potties and dodging the shotgun blasts....

-AC

Christina Dunigan said...

Here's an important point to raise now that the mainstream media are paying attention to the RU-486 deaths: Chanelle Bryant got her abortion drugs at Family Planning Associates Medical Group, a National Abortion Federation member facility. Chanelle's death brings to a round dozen the number of women that I know of who have died after FPA abortions.

FPA is not a fly-by-night abortion mill. It's the single largest for-profit chain of abortion facilities in the US, and they're members of what's supposed to be a self-policing organization that offers referrals to "safe" abortions at facilities that only meet the highest standards of care.

Holly Patterson got her drugs at a Planned Parenthood. Chanelle got hers at a NAF member. This is not kosher. We need to really get this information out. For more, see my blog entry here and follow the links.