BUENOS AIRES, 4 (NE) The Catholic Doctors Consortium in Argentina requested the Public Health minister not to authorize in Argentina the selling of the RU-486 pill and other similar drugs of abortive effects. In their petition, the Catholic doctors also emphasized the need to modify a norm that allows the public consumption of drugs already authorized in other countries, such as the United States.

    This law implies that once the American FDA authorized the selling of the abortive pill RU-486, it will automatically be possible to import and sell it in Argentina. In relation to this, the Consortium affirmed the necessity of excluding contraceptives from the automatic authorization for import and sale.

    In their petition it was also advised that "many are the elements called contraceptives that actually are abortive because they cause the death of a human life acting in different ways: Killing the recently formed embryo -when the sperm has penetrated in the ovum- or in its first cellular divisions; Impeding the nesting of the embryo in the uterine mucous; or causing uterine contractions that eliminate the embryo already nested."

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January 5, 2001
volume 12, no. 5
Global News from the Universal Church

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