WASHINGTON, DC--(COLLEGIATE PRESSWIRE)--Nov 14, 2000--''Colleges from Maine to Florida have formed a blockade against the RU-486 regimen,'' said Cathy Brown, director of WhyLife? (an American Life League division), following a survey of colleges along the Eastern Seaboard.
''Our lengthy survey has confirmed that in every state running the entire length of the Eastern Seaboard, college after college, university after university, from Maine to Florida, all conclude that the RU-486 regimen is lethal, dangerous, complicated and controversial,'' Brown said. ''Unlike the FDA, which has been corrupted by the Big Abortion industry, campus medical personnel have aligned themselves in defense of student moms and their innocent preborn children. They have blocked the RU-486 regimen from their campuses. We expect that colleges throughout the length and breadth of America will do the same.''
ALL`s survey confirmed that each college and university contacted will not permit RU-486 onto its campuses. Those colleges which have just said ''No!'' to the RU-486 regimen include: Colby College and the University of Maine; colleges throughout New Hampshire; Castleton and the University of Vermont; Boston U; Providence in Rhode Island; Yale University and the University of Connecticut; Fordham, Syracuse, LeMoyne and Wells in NY; Allegheny, Franklin, Marshall and Penn State in PA; the University of Delaware; Rutgers and Princeton in NJ; Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland; the University of Richmond and the University of Virginia; the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; the University of South Carolina; the University of Georgia at Athens and Georgia Tech; and the entire Florida public university system.
Colleges will block the RU-486 regimen, Brown said, because of the deadly action of the two chemicals involved (Mifeprex and Cytotec). Mifeprex kills the preborn person by starvation. Cytotec, used off label, induces contractions to expel the dead preborn child; Cytotec, according to the drug’s manufacturer Searle, has killed mothers. The drug is specifically labeled with a warning; it is not to be used by pregnant women because it can cause the death of the mother and her baby.
Campus physicians and gynecologists warn of the ''dangerous ramifications'' of RU-486 regimen. ''It`s an extremely dangerous process,'' said Dr. Christine Peterson, director of student health at the University of Virginia.
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