Deirdre McQuade Approving Quotations

Holly's Law is a very modest bill. It provides only for temporary suspension of the Food and Drug Administration's approval of RU-486 so the comptroller general can review that agency's adherence to statutory mandates in its process for approving the drug.

If supporters of RU-486 believe the FDA followed the law in approving RU-486 for abortion, they should have nothing to fear from the proposed review. But if the FDA bent the rules to expedite approval of RU-486, the agency clearly valued the 'health' of the abortion industry over women's health and should be brought to account.