This is the type of rhetoric one has come to expect of those who seem to genuinely believe that the general availability of abortion has saved more women's lives than the invention of penicillin, the sterile hospital environment and the near eradication of small pox combined. Such a deep and abiding concern for the medical necessities of women did not itself give pause to those who heard both documented and anecdotal evidence of severe complications that have attended RU-486 usage. Of course, RU-486 has rightly been called a human pesticide, a chemical concoction chiefly conceived to bring about the death of a developing human being. Let us meditate on the sweeping rhetoric of the abortion pill's boosters. To take these people seriously, one must accept the premise that pregnancy is little better than a disease.
Abortion is the cure.
Pro-choice rhetoric makes childbearing sound like a battle to the death between mother and child, which is a fairly depraved mentality if you think about it. For reasons ranging from the burgeoning number of crisis pregnancy centers to a slight increase in adoptions to a decline in the number of abortionists to parental-notification laws and other mild restrictions, slightly fewer abortions have been happening in the last couple of years. The FDA's ruling is likely to reverse that trend. One study found that 28 percent of physicians who do not currently perform abortions would consider prescribing RU-486. Other studies have estimated that combining the new option of chemical abortions with existing surgical abortions would increase the number of people who perform the procedure by about one-fourth.