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Tainted Drugs Tied To Maker Of Abortion Pill
Recently the Stormans family, long-time owners of a couple of stores with pharmacies, in the greater Olympia area, have come under fire for not providing abortion pills, because of their deeply held pro-life convictions. They have referred customers to other pharmacies that do provide abortion pills.
But that wasn't good enough for Gov. Gregoire and her pro-abortion colleagues, so they have introduced legislation that would force the Stormans to violate their conscience and dispense the pills against their personal beliefs -- in their own stores. A suit has been filed and it is presently working its way through the courts at great personal expense to the Stormans.
However, as it turns out, the Stormans and their pro-life beliefs may not be the pro-abortion people's greatest threat. The Chinese company that makes abortion pills for America has a contamination problem.
The company, Shanghi Hualian, has recently caused a scandal by manufacturing contaminated leukemia drugs.
Shanghi Hualian is the sole maker of the mifepristone abortion pill that Danco Laboratories distribute to women in America.
The New York Times is reporting that the abortion pill is made at another plant about an hour's drive away from the plant that has made the contaminated leukemia pills.
The Times reports that the FDA officials refused to talk about the problems in China and referred to a statement saying the abortion drug plant had been inspected in May and there were no problems.
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, an affiliate of Planned Parenthood, about 13% of all abortions involve mifepristone, all of which is made at the Chinese plant. The report also showed that 57% of places that do abortions in the US use that drug.
Danco, the exclusive distributor, say that 840,000 women in the US have had abortions with the drug. They also say that although mifepristone is, "a safe and effective, private option for ending early pregnancy" they acknowledge that "Serious and sometimes fatal infections and bleeding occurs."
So, even if the drug is not contaminated, it is still risky.
Yet the energies and money of Washington State and some of the elected lawmakers are directed at a family who has served the community for generations, simply because they happen to be believe in the sanctity of life.
It would seem that "choice" trumps both personal beliefs and safety where some government agencies are concerned.
Analyze that for a moment.
We definitely need to "Change The State in '08".
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Gary Randall
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Faith & Freedom
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1 Comments:
Gary, I’m analyzing…
So let me get this straight. Some leukemia medicine from a Chinese company is found to be contaminated. They also make the abortion pill, but in a completely different plant, which the FDA says was inspected and is safe. But the abortion medicine can have side effects. Therefore the state should not be dealing with the Stormans, who don’t want to sell the abortion pill from their regulated pharmacy.
Huh? Help me understand the leap in logic!
This is the old right-wing tactic of taking something we can all agree upon (that Chinese companies should not be delivering contaminated product) and twisting it to bolster their argument for something we don’t agree upon (whether the Stormans should be able to choose not to sell some legal drugs for personal or religious reasons).
Seems to me you are avoiding the topic by changing the subject.
Can the state not deal with two unrelated situations at once? I don’t anything anywhere that says the “energies” the state has spent dealing with the Stormans has somehow caused the contaminated leukemia medicine or somehow let it happen out of negligence. Are you saying that once we figure out this bad leukemia medicine situation, then it’s OK then to deal with the Storman issue? Where’s the connection? Hmmmm.
Bad leukemia medicine out of China doesn’t give the Stormans a pass on having the state and its citizens decide whether their actions are acceptable or not.
So, back to the Stormans, which is the real question I believe Gary wanted to bring up. Should the Stormans be able to choose which medicines it wants to dispense based on their religious beliefs? After all, pharmacies are regulated by the state for good reason: they can have a direct affect on the health of a community. We aren’t talking about a general store here, which can choose to sell cereal and not soup. We are talking about an extension of the health system.
If the Stormans can choose not to sell abortion pills, can they also choose to not sell medicine from manufacturers they deem to be working against Christian interests? Or only from their uncle John’s pharmaceutical company? Or can they choose not to sell fertility enhancing drugs to gay people? Or Jews? Or blacks? What makes the Stormans’ personal beliefs more important than the community’s access to legal medication? Why should the customer seeking legal medicine have to drive to a different pharmacy to obtain it? Should the Stormans be allowed to be pharmacists if they can’t uphold their duties it entails? If so, then should doctors be allowed to not treat gay people due to religious reasons?
I’d love to see Gary actually tackle the topic at hand.
Tony in Seattle
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