Women Have A Right To Know

Here's everything you wanted to know, and have a right to know about Ella.  Our Federal Drug Administration (FDA) is looking after you. Or is it? A panel recently recommended full approval of the FDA for marketing Ella. Ella is used in Europe. But it is being marketed in the US as an emergency contraceptive. Wrong! Ella is not Plan B. And even some experts would tell you Plan B is far more than an emergency contraception. Emergency contraception? What an oxymoron. What are we talking about? Think about it. Emergency contraception, after the fact?

 

Ella has a different mechanism than Plan B. Let's explore. Plan B is called the morning after pill. Another oxymoron. Plan B can prevent an embryo from implanting in the uterus. No matter how we distort the facts, no implantation, no live baby. Ella has other properties. Ella is a selected progesterone receptor modulator. What does this mean? It blocks progesterone and thereby starves a developing baby of a needed protein. In other words, it starves a baby to death. Only RU486 is approved and has the similar properties.

 

In Europe, European Medicines Agency (EMEA), equal to the FDA, said Ella causes abortion in animals, including rats, rabbits, guinea pigs and macaques (similar to monkeys). The EMEA says Ella is embryotoxic at low doses, when given to rats and rabbits. "Given Ella's molecular similarity to RU486 and this animal data, it is reasonable to conclude that Ella will abort human pregnancies."

 

In fact, Ella causes the death of an embryo that is already implanted in it's mother's womb, besides preventing implantation after fertilization. Wow! A real death pill. I'll bet their going to make a killing in profits, and that' no oxymoron.

 

Our FDA studied limited data on Ella. Since Ella works like RU486, and we know RU486 has morbidity and mortality associated with it's use, one would think that the FDA would study Ella. The FDA has admitted, that six women have died as a result of taking RU486. One has to ask how many countless others have died, but never been reported. If the FDA approves Ella, women have a right to know the risks associated with it.  

 

FDA admits one case, in which a baby exposed to Ella in utero, had developmental problems. Despite this information, the FDA Advisory Panel did not suggest further studies on Ella's potential for birth defects in utero or breast feeding.

 

Would you prescribe this pill? What are we doing to our young women? Aren't we supposed to be protecting them? Is not Ella an assault on women? RU486 even had feminists objecting to the risks associated with it's use. Have we gone down the road so far in our assault on women? Did the FDA Advisory Panel have any women recommending Ella?