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Gilbert Gutknecht: Exactly. It is all funded by the pharmaceutical companies. We know that, and we will be able to prove that within the…

On the recordJuly 15, 2003
Exactly. It is all funded by the pharmaceutical companies. We know that, and we will be able to prove that within the next 72 hours. But let me come back to this point. They know the rules. You cannot get the abortion drug RU-486 with a prescription in the United States. You can only get it administered by a doctor in a hospital or in the doctor's office. In other words, he or she cannot write you a prescription and you get it filled at the pharmacy. The pharmaceutical industry knows that, and that is why this is such a bald-faced lie. In fact, they do not even go so far as to say you cannot even get it legally in Canada or Mexico. It is outlawed completely in those countries. Only the FDA has allowed the abortion drug. I do not think they should, but whichever side of the story you are on, stick to the facts. And if anybody knows the facts, it is the companies that produce it. It is not laughable. It is sad. I used to think of them as an ethical industry. No more. It is unethical. What they are doing is dishonest, and they deserve all of the spite that the consumers are beginning to heap upon their shoulders.
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Gilbert Gutknecht
Republican · Minnesota

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Discussing the regulation and availability of the abortion drug RU-486.

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