Family Planning has a licence for its Tauranga branch to conduct abortions using the French drug mifepristone (also called RU486). This drug, together with a prostaglandin (PG), prevents adherence to the womb lining, starves the tiny human being to death, and triggers a chemically-induced abortion - if all goes well.
This drug is subject to heavy warnings, and at last worldwide count has caused the death of 25 women, 9 in the United States and 16 in other countries including one in Australia. (See 'AbortionPillRisks.org”)
Dr. Renate Klein is pro-abortion, but an outspoken opponent of RU486. She co-authored 'RU486: Myths and Morals” and believes the abortion pills too dangerous to women, particularly in rural areas, distant from hospitals and doctors. She says that using RU486/PG '..women undergo a long and cruel punishment for their decision to terminate their babies, often with severe bleeding, nausea and acute pain.”
Australian figures for 2012 revealed that since restricted approval in 2006 for RU486/PG, 599 women required surgeries to remove poisoned embryos after incomplete miscarriages, and 832 reported 'adverse events” resulting in hospitalisation or further treatment.
Do we really need this industry and its casualty rate growing bigger here in Tauranga?

Don Brebner,
Voice for Life B.O.P. Charitable Trust.