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providers to decide whether or not
to offer it.
Locally, neither All Women’s
Health Services—which offers abor
tion services — nor Planned Parent
hood plans to offer RU 486, though
they aren’t ruling out the possibility.
“We would certainly hope to
work with physicians in this com
munity so they would provide this
option to their clients,” said state
Rep. Kitty Piercy, D-Eugene, who is
also a Planned Parenthood spokes
woman. “But if others don’t step up
in offering RU 486, we will keep our
options open.”
Piercy noted that the Salem
branch of Planned Parenthood will
be offering clients the option of us
ing RU 486.
Anti-abortion organizations say
they will continue fighting RU 486,
hoping to slow its use in America and
promote alternatives, such as adop
tion, said Gayle Atteberry, executive
director of Right to Life in Salem.
“Even though RU 486 is an earlier
method of abortion, in every RU 486
abortion procedure an unborn child
with a beating heart dies,” Atteberry
said.
Lisa Foisy, University Women’s
Center director, maintains that the
pill will give women the choice to
do what is right for them by offering
another option.
“I think it’s great [that RU 486 has]
been legalized and offers a great op
portunity for women who are in
need ofbirth control,” she said.
But anti-abortion supporters ar
gue that regardless of choices, the
abortion pill won’t resolve the emo
tional trauma women experience
when terminating a pregnancy.
“One reason we are against abor
tion is we know for many women,
abortion is not a satisfactory answer
to an unexpected pregnancy,” Atte
berry said. “It is not the external
pressure that makes a women feel
sad about having an abortion, it is
the internal. Even with the RU 486,
she will feel that sadness.”
Research conducted by the Uni
versity’s Center for Study of Women
in Society shows otherwise: One of
the attractions of the abortion pill
was that women felt it was more like
a natural miscarriage.
According to a poll of 286 women
conducted by Harvey, 89 percent of
women who used RU 486 said they
were very satisfied or satisfied with
the results, and 94 percent said they
would recommend the drug to a
friend or family member. Judging by
those numbers, medical abortions
will become more common, Harvey
said.
Though RU 486 has been com
monly used in France since 1988,
the drug was met with resistance by
the Bush administration in 1989. In
1993, President Clinton lifted the
ban on the pill, but it took nearly
eight years for the FDA to legalize
RU 486 because of problems finding
a manufacturer and resistance from
anti-abortion organizations.
Roussel Uclaf, the French compa
ny that developed mifeprestone,
dodged entering the American mar
ket for fear of anti-abortion protests
and boycotts of their other products.
Instead, the company donated
rights to the drug to a nonprofit re
search organization called Popula
tion Council, based in New York
City. The Population Council li
censed distribution and manufac
turing of RU 486 to Danco Laborato
ries LLC, a company specifically
created to produce the drug.
“I’m sure for some providers this
will be an obstacle,” Harvey said,
“but there are others who like to
provide all the reproductive health
care services for the patients.”
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