Stardate 20010718.1804 (On Screen): What anti-abortion activists hate most about RU-486 (mifepristone) is that it is invisible and distributed. There's no concentrated target to picket and harass (and shoot at and set on fire). No clinic is needed; any doctor can prescribe it and any pharmacy can distribute it. As time goes on, more and more doctors will do so. A woman who uses the drug does so before she's become visibly pregnant, and her neighbors will never know. Termination of pregnancy takes place in the privacy of a woman's home. Of course, privacy in decisions like this is anathema; you want it to be traumatic and horrible and painful and public, right?
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