The Pharmaceuticals the Left Loves

Those which induce abortion:

Hillary Clinton usually decries the greed of pharmaceutical companies. But she suspends her distaste for them if they profit off abortifacients and other drugs that liberals happen to like. This week she renewed her attacks on the FDA for delaying approval of Barr pharmaceutical's abortifacient, Plan B. Clinton wanted the FDA to approve sale of the abortifacient for over-the-counter use, meaning that 17-year-olds could pick it up at CVS along with their Snickers bars and Pepsi.

Under the Clintons in the 1990s, the FDA would often entangle pharmaceutical companies in bureaucratic tape and delay. FDA Commissioner David Kessler, to the delight of the left, distrusted these companies, using a Naderite emphasis on extreme caution to block helpful drugs. And Hillary cheered him on. But now she demands the FDA act with haste. Now she favors a heedless and streamlining FDA, since the drugs in question are life-ending rather than life-saving.

And don't worry about labeling Plan B too precisely either, she hectors Bush's FDA after decades of demanding that the FDA label everything in sight. As James Bovard reported in The American Spectator in 1995, Kessler, with left-wing winds at his back, behaved like a bully and lout if companies didn't label products to his satisfaction. He had U.S. marshals destroy 12,000 gallons of orange juice because they didn't have "Made from Concentrate" in large enough print on them.

Has anybody died from orange juice concentrate? No, but human embryos will die from the chemical poison Plan B and safety-first liberals see nothing unsafe in that and oppose precise warning labels on it lest teens avoid the drug. Hillary Clinton says Bush's FDA is "run not on the basis of science but on ideology," yet for baldly ideological reasons she will try and silence any FDA official who questions the prudence of placing abortifacients in the hands of teens.

The same liberals who hold hearings on vitamins and dietary supplements will sabotage hearings on the dangers of abortifacients. Does Henry Waxman who has held hearings on dietary supplements consider them more dangerous than a drug whose whole purpose is to be dangerous -- that is, endanger an embryo?

As long as Roe v. Wade is the hill the Democrats invariably choose to die on, they will continue to fade as a political force.

There is no other cause which the Democrats would not sacrifice to preserve easy access to abortion mills. Infanticide is the Democrats' Iwo Jima.