A Bitter Pill

The abortion pill is getting slammed with criticism after four California women died from bacterial infections apparently brought on by mifepristone. Now there are eight other deaths during childbirth that occurred not from the abortion pill, but from the same bacteria. Anti-abortion foes are jumping on the deaths as reason enough to ban the pill. Congressional hearings are scheduled. A lot of people are getting up and arms.

But this Washington Post story doesn't mention until the last sentence that 600,000 people in the U.S. have taken the abortion pill without incident, and 1.5 million in Europe.

Now, I'm no scientist, but those odds sound pretty good to me. Not that I wish anyone dead, but seems like all the FDA has to do is recommend that women taking mifepristone should also take antibiotics, and there will probably be zero deaths. Nuf said.