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Renewed Calls for Congressional Action.
While the FDA continues to investigate the latest deaths, there have been renewed calls in Congress to pass "Holly's Law," legislation named for the California teen who died in 2003 after her RU486 abortion. The bill would withdraw RU486 from the market by its own force, but only temporarily, while the Comptroller General of th U.S. reviews its approval under the Clinton Administration. If the Comptroller General finds the approval was properly granted, the drug goes back on the market.
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett (R-Md.), one of the original sponsors of Holly's Law (H.R. 1079), pointed out that while regular pharmaceutical companies pull their own drugs off the shelves when there are reports of deaths and injuries, the situation with RU486 is different. "Responsible manufacturers pull drugs from the market," Bartlett said in a March 17, 2006, press release. "However, RU486's manufacturer, Danco, is a shell company. Its only product is RU486."
Danco is the U.S. distributor of RU486, created by the Population Council, the U.S. patent holder of the abortion drug. The Population Council is a major player on the international population control scene, developing and promoting various contraceptive and abortion methods.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Renewed Calls for Congressional Action.