Journal Salty Moran's Journal: Abortion Topic: RU-486 Hearing 3

I saw this Washington Post article this morning and had to kind of stop and think for a few minutes about what the complaint is.

To be honest, I'm still not sure. Maybe if somebody reads this, they can clarify what the concern is, because eight people dying from complications over the course of taking a drug that more than half a million people have taken doesn't seem like a major concern to me. I noted that there were other reports of complications, but even 1000 "adverse events", as the article puts it, doesn't seem that big a deal to me. Even that means that less than a quarter of a percent of users experienced an "adverse event", and only 1% of those "adverse events" was life-threatening even. To put some icing on that cake, the "adverse events" apparently were culled from multiple years of data.

Perhaps someone with a little more medical insight can explain what I'm missing? Is this tiny number really of significant medical concern? How does it compare to other common drugs on the market?

To be honest, I'm not sure what I think about abortion. I don't like the idea, but it's sometimes necessary, but it's not always used out of necessity.

I do think, at this moment, however, that this new "flap" about this pill sure appears, at least on the surface, to be a deceptive means of gaining traction on the anti-abortion issue. That doesn't play well to me and makes me seriously question what other deceptions may be undertaken to push that particular agenda on the issue?

So, what is it? Deception, or does this data actually compare poorly to other drugs as far as safety goes?