Abort, Retry, Sell?
A WEEK after starting a fresh campaign to halt the manufacture of RU486, a pill that causes abortions, America's Christian right appears to have scored a thumping victory. Faced with a boycott organised by Pat Robertson's Christian Coalition, the National Right to Life Committee and others, Hoechst Marion Roussel (HMR), the German firm that makes RU486, decided on April 8th to stop producing and distributing its most controversial medicine. As pro-choice groups see it, this represents a triumph for religious prejudice over women's health.
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