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4-17-2007
 

U.S. Senate Committee Considers Curbing RU-486

 

by Jennifer Mesko, associate editor

Amendments would save lives of women, preborn babies.

On Wednesday, a U.S. Senate committee will vote on a bill related to the Food and Drug Administration. Two amendments attached to the bill could save women's lives and limit abortions.

Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., has filed a number of amendments related to abortion pill RU-486 to S. 1082, which is before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

The first amendment would suspend the availability of any drug approved under the FDA's subpart H category that has resulted in more deaths than lives saved — RU-486 has claimed the lives of at least six women but has not been documented as having saved any lives. 

The second would lift the liability protection that currently shields mifepristone — one of the two drugs in the RU-486 chemical-abortion combination — so women or their families can seek damages if they are injured, harmed or killed as a result of use of this drug.

Ashley Horne, federal policy analyst for Focus on the Family Action, said the amendments would save lives.

"It is important for senators to hear from their constituents on bills or amendments that affect family values," she said. "We applaud the effort of Sen. Coburn to stand for the sanctity of life and for the health and safety of women by offering these two pro-life amendments."

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Check the list below to see whether your senators serve on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. If so, urge them to pass these amendments on RU-486. If you are a CitizenLink Daily Update subscriber, click on the blue "Take Action" button in the e-mail to be automatically logged in to our Action Center. Otherwise, click on this link.

Democrats by Seniority
Edward Kennedy (Mass.)
Christopher Dodd (Conn.)
Tom Harkin (Iowa)
Barbara A. Mikulski (Md.)
Jeff Bingaman (N.M.)
Patty Murray (Wash.)
Jack Reed (R.I.)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.)
Barack Obama (Ill.)
Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.)
Sherrod Brown (Ohio)

Republicans by Seniority
Michael B. Enzi (Wyo.)
Judd Gregg (N.H.)
Lamar Alexander (Tenn.)
Richard Burr (N.C.)
Johnny Isakson (Ga.)
Lisa Murkowski (Ark.)
Orrin G. Hatch (Utah)
Pat Roberts (Kan.)
Wayne Allard (Colo.)
Tom Coburn (Okla.)

(Paid for by Focus on the Family Action)


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