From: Don Williams [willfam@family.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 11:33 PM
To: FDADockets@oc.fda.gov
Subject: MORNING-AFTER ABORTION PILL

I am writing to you in opposition to the approval of the "morning after" pill for over-the-counter distribution, for the following reason: the pill will abort the life of a citizen of the United States, a life which the FDA and all government agencies are Constitutionally sworn to protect.
 
 "Emergency contraceptive pills, also known as morning-after pills, are a postcoital hormonal treatment that appears to inhibit implantation of the fertilized ovum" (C. Harper and C. Ellertson, "Knowledge and Perceptions of Emergency Contraceptive Pills Among a College-Age Population: A Qualitative Approach," 27 Family Planning Perspectives 149 [July-August 1995]). 

Brown University associate professor of medicine, Ralph Miech, M.D., Ph.D.:  "This type of pill causes an abortion," he wrote in the Providence Journal on August 3, 1998. "From a pharmacologic perspective, this type of pill should be called an 'abortion-after pill'."

Please do not permit the approval of this drug.
 
Don Williams
6075 Ashleylynn Ct
Dublin, OH 43016