[Congressional Record Volume 151, Number 23 (Thursday, March 3, 2005)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E357]
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                     REINTRODUCING ``HOLLY'S LAW''

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                        HON. ROSCOE G. BARTLETT

                              of maryland

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, March 3, 2005

  Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland. Mr. Speaker, today, I am reintroducing 
``Holly's Law''--a bill that would suspend FDA approval of the drug RU-
486. This bill has been introduced with 48 cosponsors. Senator Jim 
DeMint has reintroduced Holly's Law in the Senate.
  Holly's Law is named in memory of Holly Patterson, an I8-year-old 
Californian who died after taking the drug in 2003. When I tell people 
that the FDA approved a drug to treat a life-threatening illness that 
has killed three pregnant women and seriously injured dozens of other 
pregnant women in the United States, they're shocked. They want to know 
why the FDA and Congress would allow a drug that kills and injures 
young women to stay on the market. RU-486 is a drug that always kills 
babies and sometimes kills and seriously injures healthy young women.
  I urge my colleagues to support Holly's Law to take the dangerous and 
unsafe drug RU-486 off the market.

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