{"id":227014,"date":"2020-07-25T09:18:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-25T14:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=227014"},"modified":"2021-09-29T15:11:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T20:11:49","slug":"abortion-pill-secrecy-women-deserve-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-secrecy-women-deserve-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"The abortion pill is shrouded in secrecy, but women deserve to know the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>According to a 1997\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/1997\/01\/12\/abortion-pills-us-debut-snagged-by-business-dispute\/8e500dd4-3aba-40b7-b3a2-3bff7fcd4850\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>\u00a0by the Washington Post, the abortion pill was initially projected to reach $100 million in sales every year. It&#8217;s no wonder, then, that those\u00a0involved in the pill&#8217;s early approval planned for the abortion pill manufacturer to eventually transition from a non-profit to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2000\/HEALTH\/women\/09\/28\/abortion.pill.danco.reut\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">for-profit<\/a> company. And where there is big profit, there is often secrecy. The abortion pill is no exception; even today the pill&#8217;s manufacturing location and many of its funders are still\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/secrecy-abortion-pill-maker-investors\/\">cloaked in secrecy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, the\u00a0New York Daily News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/os-xpm-2000-11-26-0011250026-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<i>The pill\u2019s 11-year journey to the United States included a cloak-and-dagger scheme to hide the identities of participants&#8230;allegations of fraud, a dozen lawsuits, and a price tag of at least $50 million\u2026. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Citing fear\u2026 Danco refuses to release the names of its executives and investors. The company even <\/i><b><i>persuaded\u00a0<\/i><\/b><i>the Food and Drug Administration to <\/i><b><i>keep secret the location of the factory\u00a0<\/i><\/b><i>where the abortion drug will be produced\u2026. <\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>In a strange twist, <\/i><b><i>the FDA acceded to Danco\u2019s request<\/i><\/b><i> that the name of its manufacturer be kept secret \u2014 and <\/i><b><i>even shielded the names of the FDA researchers<\/i><\/b><i> who had overseen the pill\u2019s approval.<\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Live Action News has documented how the abortion pill, originally called RU-486, was approved in the United States in <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/population-council-founded-eugenicists-promoting-abortion-turns-65\/\">1993<\/a>\u00a0under the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.hhs.gov\/news\/press\/1994pres\/940516.txt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bill Clinton<\/a> administration. In 1994, the administration pressured the French pharmaceutical\u00a0manufacturer Roussel-Uclaf to assign the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/drugsatfda_docs\/appletter\/2000\/20687appltr.pdf\">U.S. rights<\/a>\u00a0of marketing and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fda.gov\/downloads\/Drugs\/DrugSafety\/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders\/ucm086149.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">distribution<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.causeiq.com\/organizations\/population-council,131687001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Population Council<\/a>. This\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/population-council-founded-eugenicists-promoting-abortion-turns-65\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eugenics-founded<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;non-profit&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrlc.org\/archive\/news\/2006\/NRL07\/BuffettDonation.html\">brought<\/a>\u00a0the abortion pill into the U.S. and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20010202214900\/http:\/earlyoptionpill.com\/history.php3\">set up<\/a>\u00a0the pill\u2019s manufacturer,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrlc.org\/archive\/news\/2006\/NRL07\/BuffettDonation.html\">Danco Laboratories, LLC.<\/a>\u00a0Danco was started with funding from several abortion philanthropy groups, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packard.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Packard_MIR_2015OCT51.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$14 million loan<\/a> from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.\u00a0Today, Packard <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-investor-millions-generic-company\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funds<\/a>\u00a0the generic manufacturer of the abortion pill, GenBioPro.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The abortion pill&#8217;s investors were kept secret<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1999, the New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/07\/11\/magazine\/the-little-white-bombshell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">acknowledged<\/a> that Danco was &#8220;extraordinarily skittish about publicity&#8221; and called its consortium of &#8220;low profile&#8221; investors &#8220;politically motivated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Danco&#8217;s investors and managers have deliberately, even obsessively, avoided the spotlight as they have gone about raising money, finding a manufacturer, seeking regulatory approval and resolving internal conflicts,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/SB968103355754057093\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0the Wall Street Journal in 2000. Although the paper outed investors &#8220;Warren Buffett, George Soros and the late David Packard&#8221; as financing Danco, they also noted that several other investors chose to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The abortion pill&#8217;s manufacturer, Danco, was initially kept secret<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In May 2020, Columbia University journalists Lauren Mascarenhas and\u00a0Abigail Brone\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20200708231728\/https:\/\/blogs.cul.columbia.edu\/podcasts\/podcast\/the-abortion-pill\/\">interviewed<\/a>\u00a0early abortion pill advocates. &#8220;Because of the controversy surrounding mifepristone, the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/whos-making-millions-sale-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Population Council<\/a> kept this distributor a secret throughout the process,&#8221; they wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The journalists interviewed Dr.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gynuity.org\/about\/staff\/winikoff\/\">Beverly Winikoff,<\/a>\u00a0who was at the time\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20181016175114\/http:\/gynuity.org\/about\/staff\/winikoff\/\">employed<\/a>\u00a0at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/population-council-founded-eugenicists-promoting-abortion-turns-65\/\">Population Council<\/a>\u00a0as the Program Director for Reproductive Health\u2014and person in charge of the abortion pill&#8217;s clinical trials.\u00a0Winikoff conveyed to the journalists that she saw the abortion pill as a &#8220;big deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gynuity.org\/about\/staff\/winikoff\/\">Winikoff<\/a>\u00a0credited the 9\/11 terrorist attacks with saving the abortion pill, after news of the attack drowned out the news of a woman&#8217;s death from the abortion pill.\u00a0In 2003, Winikoff left the Population Council to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gynuity.org\/about\/staff\/winikoff\/\">found<\/a>\u00a0Gynuity Health Projects,\u00a0which is <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/expand-access-abortion-pill-tied-eugenics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">heavily funded<\/a> by original Danco investors.\u00a0Under Winikoff\u2019s direction, Gynuity is currently sponsoring abortion pill clinical trials, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-study-second-trimester-minority\/\">experiments<\/a>\u00a0on African women and a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-pill-trial-expands-thwart-fda-safety\/\">TelAbortion<\/a>\u00a0trial willing to mail abortion drugs to girls as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/telabortion-study-girls-10-dishonestly-remains-aborted\/\">young<\/a>\u00a0as 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Winikoff says mifepristone was so controversial&#8230;even its creators no longer wanted a hand in its advancement,&#8221; wrote Mascarenhas and Brone. Enter the Population Council,\u00a0because it was &#8220;willing to weather the controversy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to a sponsor, a drug needs a distributor to gain FDA approval&#8230; Because of the controversy surrounding mifepristone, the Population Council kept this distributor a secret throughout the process,&#8221;\u00a0Brone pointed out. &#8220;We now know that company was Danco Laboratories. It was created for the sole purpose of marketing and distributing mifepristone,&#8221; Brone said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lars Noah, an expert in drug law at the University of Florida,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1999\/07\/11\/magazine\/the-little-white-bombshell.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the New York Times that this kind of secrecy was unprecedented. &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I\u2019ve never heard of a situation where, with the blessing of the F.D.A., you could keep the manufacturer of a drug secret,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>The FDA&#8217;s approval process was kept secret<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the FDA <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaplog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/FRCRU486pamphlet_fnl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">politicized<\/a> the abortion pill&#8217;s approval process by choosing not to publish the names of &#8220;experts&#8221; who reviewed the drug. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cul.columbia.edu\/podcasts\/podcast\/the-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mascarenhas<\/a>, &#8220;By the summer of 1996, the time had come for an FDA advisory committee to meet and decide whether to recommend mifepristone for marketing in the U.S.&#8221; She <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cul.columbia.edu\/podcasts\/podcast\/the-abortion-pill\/\">noted<\/a>, &#8220;Advisory committees don\u2019t make the final decision,&#8221;\u00a0adding that the Population Council &#8220;knew that securing a recommendation all but guaranteed eventual FDA approval.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Author Julie A. Hogan, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1\/8852153\/Hogan%2C_Julie.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0a historical review of the process, said,\u00a0&#8220;In return for working with the drug, companies wanted confidentiality. The FDA and the Population Council, in an unusual move, agreed to provide the desired secrecy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The FDA \u201cbroke with precedent by not publishing the names of the experts who reviewed RU-486 for the agency,\u201d\u00a0the Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/archive\/politics\/2000\/10\/12\/drugs-us-marketer-remains-elusive\/8b7b732b-0f23-4c96-9051-714cd3d9f6f8\/?noredirect=on&amp;utm_term=.a41163e953ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pointed out<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A 1996 federal advisory committee that recommended the drug&#8217;s approval met under intense security in a windowless building surrounded by federal marshals,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/11\/23\/us\/deaths-after-abortion-pill-to-be-studied-by-officials.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recounted<\/a> the New York Times in 2005. Likewise, Winikoff <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cul.columbia.edu\/podcasts\/podcast\/the-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recalled<\/a>\u00a0being &#8220;driven to a secret location&#8221; and &#8220;ushered through a tent in the middle of a field.&#8221; Her recollection was supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/george-brown-10088111\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Brown<\/a>, the Vice President of the Population Council at the time.<\/p>\n<p>In the previously mentioned May 2020 interview, Brone <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cul.columbia.edu\/podcasts\/podcast\/the-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called<\/a> the FDA process &#8220;dramatic,&#8221; pointing out that &#8220;[p]ublic advisory committee hearings are typically only made private if the conversations involve trade secrets. There have been few other instances where a hearing required this level of security.&#8221;\u00a0According to <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cul.columbia.edu\/podcasts\/podcast\/the-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the interviewers<\/a>, the names of the FDA staff involved with approving the abortion pill have never been released.\u00a0Yet somehow, they were able to locate one of the FDA&#8217;s\u00a0senior medical reviewers, who &#8220;chose to remain anonymous&#8221; but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cul.columbia.edu\/podcasts\/podcast\/the-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a>, &#8220;It\u2019s definitely not standard. It\u2019s not routine, you can look up almost every other drug that I was the primary medical officer for and my name would appear right there on the review.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And we did,&#8221; Brone <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cul.columbia.edu\/podcasts\/podcast\/the-abortion-pill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">noted<\/a>. &#8220;His name is listed on at least eight other FDA drug reviews. But no staff names are listed on the review of mifepristone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he secrecy surrounding the project and the Population Council&#8217;s refusal to provide key details regarding the project have also fueled the anti-abortion groups&#8217; campaign,&#8221; Author Julie Hogan <a href=\"https:\/\/dash.harvard.edu\/bitstream\/handle\/1\/8852153\/Hogan%2C_Julie.pdf?sequence=1&amp;isAllowed=y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a> in her historical review of the abortion pill. Hogan also cited a policy analyst with the Family Research Council, who succinctly summed up what pro-lifers have always believed about the secrecy surrounding the abortion pill: &#8220;Women ought to be aware of who will manufacture the drug, who is behind it, and what the track records of those people are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Editor&#8217;s Note, 7\/30: This article originally dated approval for RU-486 in the U.S. as 1994. This has been corrected to read 1993.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a> for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a 1997\u00a0report\u00a0by the Washington Post, the abortion pill was initially projected to reach $100 million in sales every year. It&#8217;s no wonder, then, that those\u00a0involved in the pill&#8217;s early approval planned for the abortion pill manufacturer to eventually transition from a non-profit to\u00a0for-profit company. And where there is big profit, there is often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":303,"featured_media":186645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[9953],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The abortion pill is shrouded in secrecy, but women deserve to know the truth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where there is profit, there is often secrecy. 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