Patricia Schroeder: “this is indeed a great day. Medical censorship has really been lifted in America. As Americans, we anticipate and accept…”

“this is indeed a great day. Medical censorship has really been lifted in America. As Americans, we anticipate and accept our birthright of always being able to have access to the best scientific knowledge for treatment of our health issues. Yet, anything that had any impact on reproductive areas of women, no matter what kind of impact it had in other areas, had been forbidden to come into this country for a very long time. Today, Mr. Speaker, the agreement was finalized and RU 486 will be brought into this country for the Food and Drug Administration trials. I will include in the Record a letter from a family I helped get RU 486 2 years ago. This was a man who had many surgeries for brain tumors and they told him he would be dead in several months if he could not get RU 486. That was his last hope of stopping the growth of the tumor. The letter said that he had just had his MRI and the tumors are all gone. Thank goodness we will no longer have the kind of restrictions that were on when I was trying to get it and had to have congressional intervention to get it. Progress is beginning again for American women and everyone else.”