Slaughtering The Innocent In Anonymity

You know the recent reports that the abortion rate has plummetted in recent years? And how the pro-life movement has celebrated this news?

Here's the other shoe (h/t Newsmax email insider report):

At a time when the overall number of abortions has been declining, abortions induced by the RU-486 pill have been steadily increasing.

Use of the French pill, on the market in the U.S. since 2000, has been rising by 22% a year and now accounts for more than 20% of the abortions performed by the ninth week of pregnancy, the Washington Post reports.

The pill — chemical name mifepristone — is "clearly starting to become an important part of the abortion provision in the United States," Lawrence Finer of the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health research organization, told the Post.

"I think we’ll continue to see increases."

The drug, often called "miffy," ends a pregnancy by blocking the hormone progesterone. Pregnant women take the pill in a doctor’s office, then take another drug, misoprostol, at home to trigger contractions, essentially resulting in a miscarriage.

More than 840,000 women in the U.S. have taken mifepristone, according to Danco Laboratories, which sells the drug. In some European countries, it’s been estimated that it accounts for more than 60% of all abortions.

The increased popularity of RU-486 has also slowed the decline in the number of doctors willing to perform abortions, as physicians who previously would not perform a surgical abortion are willing to prescribe the drug.

But the increase in RU-486 use bothers abortion opponents.

"This troubles me," Randal O’Bannon of the National Right to Life Committee told the Post.

"It obviously shows that the marketing efforts have been effective in getting doctors to introduce this into their practices."

I guess in the "medical community," they can say, "We're all aborticians now!"

Here, then, is a bona fide plank of the Clinton legacy. By taking the "middle man" out of the process - or at least drastically reducing his/her visibility - via the pushing and fast-tracking of RU-486, the Clintonoids have placed the moral onus for killing unborn children squarely on the shoulders of expectant mothers, thereby making moral condemnation of this abortion metamorphosis an even bigger PR nightmare for pro-lifers and ensuring that countless millions more defenseless children are sliced, diced, burned, and dismembered in complete and utter invisibility.

Anybody still want to make the claim that votes don't have consequences? Take two of these and call me in the morning.