In August 2002, CMA joined Concerned Women for America and the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists in submitting a 90-page petition to the FDA. The paper showed evidence why the drug was not safe and why it was approved during the Clinton administration in a rushed, politically motivated process.

Since the petition, Holly Patterson, a California teenager, died after an infection brought on by use of the abortion drug she obtained at a Planned Parenthood abortion business.

Patterson's parents have called on Congress and the FDA to reevaluate the safety of the drug to prevent the death of other women.

Earlier this week, representatives of the abortion industry claimed the petition "lacks any scientific basis and must be denied."

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Members of Congress have also questioned the safety of the abortion drug, and legislation is currently under consideration to ban sales of it pending review.
House Bill 3453, which currently has 85 co-sponsors and was referred to the Subcommittee on Health in November of 2003, states that "the drug mifepristone (marketed as Mifeprex, and commonly known as RU-486) in conjunction with the off-label use of misoprostol to chemically induce abortion has caused a significant number of deaths, near deaths, and adverse reactions."

Patterson died in September from septic shock and a massive systemic infection as a result of a botched RU-486 abortion that left part of the developing baby inside her.

After Patterson began experiencing severe pain and bleeding from the abortion, she went to ValleyCare Medical Center for treatment. Doctors there gave her painkillers and sent her home. She came back the next day with no improvement in her condition. It was only then that officials contacted her father and he learned she was pregnant and had been taking drugs to produce an abortion.

"They told her it was safe and it killed her," Monty Patterson, her father, said. "I felt so helpless...I didn't have a chance to be involved."

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