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January 17, 2007
Quick Hit: The Little Pill that Could
Check out this article in the American Prospect by Feministing's Ann Friedman on RU-486, The Little Pill that Could.
In the mid-1990s, the abortion wars were at a fever pitch over the impending approval of RU-486. Time magazine called it “The Pill that Changes Everything,” The New York Times Magazine dubbed it a “little white bombshell,” and anti-abortion leaders said over and over that this drug was dangerous because it would make having an abortion “as trivial as taking aspirin.” Pro-choicers, for their part, were invigorated by the possibility of giving women another abortion option, one they hoped would let them largely bypass abortion clinics and the attendant protestors at the gates.
Posted by Jessica at January 17, 2007 10:31 AM