[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 60 (Monday, May 16, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: May 16, 1994]
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             MEDICAL CENSORSHIP HAS BEEN LIFTED IN AMERICA

  (Mrs. SCHROEDER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks and include 
extraneous matter.)
  Mrs. SCHROEDER. Mr. Speaker, 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.
  The letter referred to follows:

                                       Anderson Advisory, Inc.

                                         Atlanta, GA, May 6, 1994.
     Representative Pat Schroeder,
     U.S. Congress, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC.
       Dear Pat: David and I wanted you to know that RU-486 has 
     erased any sign of the four brain tumors David had when we 
     met you in July, 1992.
       David had an MRI yesterday after which we met with the 
     doctor and received this wonderful news. The side-effects are 
     minimal (certainly less than those of his three surgeries). 
     Our family is living a normal, productive (and grateful) 
     life.
       We continue to thank you, Representative Wyden and your 
     staffs for making this life-saving medicine available.
           Sincerely,
     Dixie Anderson Grow.

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