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FDA Advisory Committee Gives Thumbs Up to New Abortion Drug Ella

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- An FDA advisory committee today cast two votes giving a thumbs up to the new abortion drug Ella, which supporters are falsely billing as a morning after pill. The Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs gave its approval to the early abortion drug on two 11-0 votes.

The panel said the "investigational emergency contraceptive pill" known as ulipristal, that would potentially be sold under the name Ella in the United States, is safe and effective at preventing pregnancy.

The committee said women could use the drug to prevent pregnancy when taken up to five days after intercourse -- and did so by redefining the beginning of pregnancy from conception to implantation. In so doing, the panel ignored the fact that the drug kills a unique human being at the earliest point of pregnancy.

If the FDA ultimately approves the drug, and it usually follows the recommendations of its advisory panels, the ella drug would be an "improvement" over the current Plan B morning after pill that can be used 72 hours after sexual intercourse.

Wendy Wright, the president of Concerned Women for America, said the ella abortion drug maker could not answer questions about the drug.

"The drug sponsor couldn't provide information on whether Ella can cause birth defects, or what happens to women who are pregnant who take it. And yet the committee strongly recommended not giving a woman a pregnancy test," she told LifeNews.com after the hearing.

"In Europe, Ella is contra-indicated (not to be used) in pregnancies. But the FDA committee voted to not to test women to detect if they're pregnant. They are telling doctors to be willfully blind when giving the drug," Wright continued. "The committee voted to deceive women." Ref. Source 2

Drug Abortion Ella

Just what we need another pill that women can take to make them feel better about themselves after a night of getting drunk and not knowing what they did. I have a better solution. Stop getting wasted and know what your doing so you do not have to take these type of pills. Maybe then there would be no need for them. Society is looking real good now.

Ella - Abortion Drug Health & Special Psychology

So we're blaming the woman again for getting pregnant? Or having loose morals? I'm sorry, but doesn't it take two to make a baby? Whose morals are worse?

Drug Abortion Ella

I know it takes more than one person to make a baby. I just think having this option out there on the market will make the morals of all go down. I think both men and women will treat sex and the possibility of getting pregnant as something you can cure with a little pill like a headache.

Drug Abortion Ella

Ella Abortion Drug Now Available, Called Contraceptive Pill

The Ella abortion drug, which has been billed by its distributor, the FDA and abortion advocates as an improved emergency contraceptive pill, is now available across the United States via prescription.
Watson Pharmaceuticals, based in New Jersey, announced today that ella (ulipristal acetate) is now available for women to obtain and use up to five days following unprotected intercourse or contraceptive failure.

While the company maintain the drug works only as a contraceptive agent, five days is sufficient time for conception to take place and confer into existence the life of a unique human being who needs only a nine month pregnancy to be born.

"ella® is the first truly new emergency contraceptive option for U.S. Women since 1999. It has a unique sustained efficacy profile and offers women an additional therapeutic option for preventing unintended pregnancy," Wilkinson, Executive Vice President of Watson Global Brands, said in a statement LifeNews.com obtained.

"We are committed to making this innovative prescription-only emergency contraceptive option available to women as soon as possible and supporting the availability of ella in ways that emphasize education and access," he said.

The drug company indicated the ella launch will be phased over the next several months and will include physician educational initiatives, advocacy outreach and educational websites for consumers. Ref. Source 3

Ella - Abortion Drug

New York Times Misleads on Abortion Properties of Ella, Plan B

The recent New York Times article by Pam Belluck, asserting that so-called abortifacient drugs may not be abortive at all, is a wonderful example of convolution of facts to obscure reality. First of all, lumping together two very different drugs and calling them "morning-after pills" allows for clever confusion of what is known about the mechanism of action of each drug, and the role of progesterone in helping the embryo to implant and sustain the pregnancy.

Plan B and Ella are very different drugs with very different mechanisms of action. Plan B is a progestin, a type of progesterone. Progesterone is a hormone that must be in a woman's body for her to be able to allow the embryo to implant and develop the placental connections between the embryo and the mother. But Plan B is a very large dose of progesterone, higher than the woman's body would normally make. It is the effect of that high dose which is under debate. Ref. Source 9