Monday, June 18, 2007

Govt process and RU486

I was reading through the paper the other day and saw this article:

The shortened version is this.......
NON-SURGICAL abortions will soon be more easily accessible for Victorian women, with a new clinic offering medical terminations of pregnancy using a cancer drug.
The clinic, run by Marie Stopes International, has been prompted to turn to the cancer drug methotrexate, after delays in accessing the abortion drug RU486
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It was over a year ago that RU486 was approved for use in Australia. Why is it that finally we get approval to USE it but in practical terms it is not happening? Now clinics are reverting to a drug developed for cancer - not specifically for termination

It seems to me that so much of the support that we could be providing is denied to our groups of interest because of issues beyond us as workers. Do you ever feel this way?

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