[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Becket Fund to defend WA pharmacists' appeal; Don't get fooled: Plan B is abortifacient drug; more...

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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 30 Jul 2009 AD

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  *Becket Fund Defends Conscience Rights of Pharmacists in Washington
  State* <http://becketfund.org/index.php/article/1082.html>

Jul 30, 2009

In defense of a family-owned pharmacy in the state of Washington, the 
Becket Fund for Religious Liberty <http://www.becketfund.org> just filed 
a petition <http://www.becketfund.org/files/PetitionforRehearing.pdf> 
for a full, eleven-judge hearing at the 9th Circuit federal court of 
appeals. A three-judge panel of the same court ruled earlier this month 
that the pharmacy will likely have to abide by a State Board of Pharmacy 
rule that forces pharmacists to sell the so-called morning after pill, 
or Plan B, even when doing so violates their conscience.


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DON'T BE FOOLED: PLAN B ONE-STEP CAUSES ABORTION

*Washington, DC (30 July 2009)* - American Life League's Marie 
Hahnenberg, director of The Pill Kills project, issued the following 
statement on Plan B One-Step, an abortifacient so-called emergency 
"contraceptive" newly approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration:

"Planned Parenthood and the birth control industry would have you 
believe Plan B One-Step cannot cause an abortion. That is a lie.

"In 1965, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued 
a Terminology Bulletin that 'officially' changed the definition of 
"conception" from the union of sperm and egg to implantation. As a 
result, the medical establishment does not call the killing of a human 
being prior to implantation an abortion. But that is just semantics.

"Plan B One-Step works like any other abortifacient drug: It can alter 
(thin) the lining (endometrium) of the mother's uterus so that the 
newly-formed baby cannot implant and thus dies. Plan B One-Step's 
product information itself states, "It may inhibit implantation (by 
altering the endometrium)."     Direct abortion is the willful ending of 
a preborn human being's life. Plan B One-Step is thus a direct abortion 
method.

[Women should not allow themselves to be misled by sales representatives 
(such as some health professionals and the abortoholic group Planned 
Barrenhood) for Plan B and Plan B One-Step, who claim that these 
products will not terminate an existing pregnancy.]

"Unfortunately, the birth control industry and Planned Parenthood -- the 
nation's largest abortion chain -- have tricked many women into aborting 
their tiny children. Plan B One-Step, Plan B, the birth control pill, 
IUD and other hormonal birth control products can all cause abortions. 
Period.

"So, the next time you hear that Plan B or Plan B One-Step cannot cause 
an abortion, you will know the truth. Plan B products kill."

[Teva, which bought out Plan B manufacturer Barr Labs earlier this 
year,  will be phasing out the two-pill form of Plan B over the next 
several months, */Pharmacist's Letter/* reported in its July issue.]

*FOR MORE INFORMATION:*

*American Life League:* The Pill Kills
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwUe4Lk-yUI 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=290&L=2041&F=H>

*Plan B One-Step:* Product Information
http://www.planb1step.com/pdf/PlanBOneStepFullProductInformation.pdf 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=290&L=2042&F=H>

*Newsweek:* Preventing Pregnancy 'One-Step' Easier: FDA Approves Simpler 
Plan B   (15 July 2009)
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thehumancondition/archive/2009/07/15/preventing-pregnancy-one-step-easier-fda-approves-simpler-plan-b.aspx 
<http://ss.all.org/link.php?M=84895&N=290&L=2043&F=H>
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*Abortifacient mifepristone (sometimes called by its antiquated 
experimental name, RU 486) to be approved in Italy* 
<http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/viewonsite.html?articleid=09073004>

By Hilary White

ROME, July 30, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com <http://www.lifesitenews.com/>) - 
The Italian pharmaceutical regulator is expected shortly to approve the 
sale of the deadly abortion drug, popularly known as "RU 486"  [it's 
antiquated experimental name], under the brand name Mifegyne [or 
generically as mifepristone], according to the Italian daily /La 
Repubblica/. The Italian Pharmaceuticals Agency (AIFA) announced the 
impending approval on Wednesday.

The move by the AIFA comes despite restrictions in Italian law allowing 
only surgical abortion, as well as warnings of the danger of maternal 
deaths recorded in association with [mifepristone] around the 
world....[continued at link above...]

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