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| Last Edited | particleman Jul 17, 2003 12:34pm |
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| News Date | Thursday, July 17, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ramesh Ponnuru at NRO discusses the anger brewing among some social conservatives targetd by special interests on the prescription drug re-importation bill. He also implies that the pharmaceutical companies are trying to outright bribe pro-life organizations to oppose the bill based on a lie.
"Todd Akin, Jo Ann Davis, Randy Forbes, Virgil Goode, Jim Demint, John Shadegg, Pat Toomey, Tom Tancredo: All of these congressmen had 100-percent ratings from the National Right to Life Committee for the last Congress. They have something else in common, too: They're the targets of a direct-mail campaign by the Traditional Values Coalition that questions their commitment to the unborn. That campaign has other social conservatives questioning the TVC's motives.
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The pharmaceutical industry and the Bush administration have long (and plausibly) contended that opening the borders to medicine would also let in drugs that are illegal or dangerous. The TVC has added a new twist to the argument: Allowing imports would let RU-486 in, thus undermining the regulation of the abortion pill.
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Some social conservatives are suggesting that the TVC was paid off by the pharmaceutical lobby. Mike Schwartz, a vice president of Concerned Women for America, says that several social-conservative organizations were offered money in return for making the RU-486 arguments. Most of them turned it down, he said, citing Eric Licht of Coalitions for America and social-conservative lawyer Pat Trueman in particular. |
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