All that Money Wants

With all the conservative/right-wing hoopla over mifepristone, AKA the abortion pill (and I truly do not mean to trivialize the deaths of the two or three women who may have died from taking this drug, though even the FDA cannot make a direct connection between their deaths and the medication), you’d think women across America were dying in droves. Yet it takes over 27,000 deaths – yes, twenty-seven thousand people killed as a direct result of taking this arthritis pain medication – for Vioxx to be pulled off the shelves. And they tell us that we need to be worried about imported drugs from Canada?!? Oh, by the by, Merck was raking in over $2.5 billion a year in Vioxx sales.

So political pressure is used to create unnecessary fear of medication abortion, while gobs of money flowing from the pharmaceutical companies to politicians keeps things quiet about a real killer drug until the stench of all those deaths is too hard to cover. Is it just me, or shouldn’t the FDA act independently of politics and regulate the industry/make sure that drug that’s supposed to heal you doesn’t kill you?

Just a crazy thought. Go back to being an oppressed/depressed blue state person now. Which color pill takes me back to the Matrix?