BURBANK : NOW Aide Lobbies for Abortion Pill
A representative of the San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles chapter of the National Organization for Women has gone to France to lobby the government there to encourage the United States to accept a controversial abortion pill.
NOW board member Jan Tucker of Burbank is spending a week in France to “hit as many different offices as possible” in a bid to get the RU 486 pill imported to the United States, chapter spokeswoman Kathryn Alice said. Antiabortion groups in this country have opposed use of the pill, which is manufactured in France.
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