What does a regulatory agency do when it has betrayed the public they are sworn to protect, through the deliberate flouting of hard-won stringent, safety-testing protocols? Create an award in the name of a 96 year-old heroine who set those standards a half century ago, then trot her out in a ceremony today and make [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Ella’
FDA: Assuaging a Guilty Abortion Conscience or More Deception?
Posted in Abortion, Biomedical Ethics, tagged Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Ella, FDA Kelsey Aard, Kelsey Award, Thalidomide on September 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Ella: Untangling the Ball of Lies (Part II)
Posted in Abortion, tagged AAPLOG, Abortion, Contraception, Ella, ellaOne, FDA on September 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
My article in today’s HeadlineBistro. The first part of this series showed how the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) newest contraceptive drug, Ella (Ulipristal acetate), is in reality an abortifacient like RU-486. It argued that FDA’s marketing of Ella as strictly a contraceptive that denies its abortifacient capabilities, which are abundantly evident to most informed [...]
Ella: Untangling the Ball of Lies (Part 1)
Posted in Abortion, tagged Abortion, Ella, ellaOne, FDA, Miscarriage, RU-486, Ulipristal acetate on August 27, 2010 | 7 Comments »
My Column in today’s Headline Bistro. The FDA’s recent approval of Ella (Ulipristal acetate) as an emergency contraceptive is an action so fraught with lies and incomplete research, that it beggars the imagination. It is a tissue of lies built upon a foundation of lies. Let’s begin with the foundational lies and work our way [...]
