Coroner's Report Links Teen's Death to Abortion Drugs.

In October, NRL News ran a story on Holly Patterson, the young California teen who died within a week of taking RU486. Pro-lifers were cautious in drawing a direct cause-and-effect, although the linkage appeared clear. Now, the drugs and the death have been officially linked.

"[T]he local coroner concluded that she had died from `septic shock, due to endomyometritis [inflammation] due to therapeutic, drug-induced abortion,'" the Washington Post reported on November 3. "The report does not describe exactly how and why the medical abortion [the politically correct designation for RU486 abortions] caused Patterson's death - - that information is expected later this month - - but the coroner's conclusion will increase the stakes in what has already become an emotional landmark in the long-running struggle over abortion."

The most important single fact is a young woman died following the death of her unborn baby. But light is also finally being shed on how the potent two-drug RU486 abortion technique is being administered. What is taking place bears little resemblance to the protocol that would be in place if women's health were the highest priority.

Marc Kaufman of the Post put it this way:

"Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers say medical researchers have concluded it is safe and useful to administer the drugs to women up to nine weeks pregnant, while the FDA approved use only up to seven weeks. They say doctors also routinely give women different dosages of the two drugs from those approved by the FDA, that women routinely use the second drug at home rather than in the presence of a doctor or nurse and that they apply it vaginally rather than taking it orally. Patterson apparently met the FDA guidelines for how long she had been pregnant, but otherwise she was medicated in a manner quite different from the FDA-approved protocol."

If you kept count, abortionists are administering RU486 four ways different than recommended by the "FDA-approved protocol."

When abortionists cut the dosage, they cut their costs. At ...