More deaths have occurred following use of the RU-486 abortion regimen. The number of American women who have died from sepsis infection has reached seven. These deaths have generated another Congressional hearing and an FDA review meeting to evaluate the situation.

Dr. Ralph Miech, an associate professor of pharmacology at Brown University, has already done some of the most comprehensive research on the problem. As a panelist at the FDA meeting, he told officials the abortion drug suppresses the immune system and increases the possibility for a lethal infection. Dr. Randall O’Bannon added, “A woman’s immune system is normally capable of protecting her from deadly bacteria like Clostridium sordellii, but RU-486 appears to compromise her immune system, so that it is unable to help her fight off such infections.”

A few days prior to the FDA’s May 11th meeting to review the deaths associated with RU-486, Judicial Watch revealed information obtained from recently uncovered documents found in Bill Clinton’s presidential papers. These records shed new light on the Clinton administration’s aggressive drive to push RU-486 to market in the United States.

The newly disclosed documents include the Clinton administration’s legal, political and press strategy memos for bringing RU-486 into the American marketplace. Analysis of the records shows President Clinton ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the FDA to coordinate the marketing of RU-486 as his first official act in office.

The FDA was compromised in its role as an objective reviewer of the safety and efficacy of the drug because of its active role in brokering a deal between pharmaceutical firms and an abortion rights foundation.

The Clinton administration pushed the abortion pill through an approval process that was infected by raw politics. At least seven women have lost their lives due to the Clinton administration’s reckless drive to bring RU-486 to America. More than 950 women have also experienced sometimes life-threatening complications from using the drug. This dangerous abortion pill needs to be pulled off the market.