The National Right to Life Committee is urging people to boycott all consumer products of Hoechst Marion Roussel, Copley Pharmaceutical, and Hoecsht Roussel Agri-Vet because their parent company, Hoechst AG, and its French sudsidiary Roussel Uclaf, are responsible for bringing RU486 into the United States for abortion and because Roussel Uclaf continues to manufacture and market this abortifacient for use in Europe, where it has been used to abort more than 200,000 babies.

RU486 kills an unborn baby whose heart has already begun to beat, could kill and injure women, and will dramatically increase the number of abortions in the United States beyond the already appalling total of 1.5 million per year.

NRLC has issued this call for a consumer boycott so that millions of pro-life Americans can make known their desire that Roussel and Hoechst withdraw their "donation" of the RU486 patent made to the Population Council in 1994 and to halt production and promotion of RU486 worldwide.

NOTE: Though these substitute drugs may perform as well as or even better than their boycotted counterparts, check with your personal physician to make sure he or she is satisfied the substitue drug will be safe and effective for your particular case.