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DATE: TUESDAY, June 22, 1993                   TAG: 9306220066
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: PARIS                                LENGTH: Short

FRENCH ABORTION PILL WON'T BE USED IN U.S FOR YEARS

The pharmaceutical firm that manufactures the French abortion pill predicted Monday that the drug won't be available for use in the United States for up to five years.

Edouard Sakiz, president of Roussel-Uclaf, said the delays result primarily from U.S. drug firms' fears of incurring the wrath of the anti-abortion lobby.

Roussel-Uclaf has been seeking a U.S. firm to make and market the drug under license. Sakiz said Monday that no major American firm seems interested in making RU-486.

President Clinton has overturned a Bush administration ban on the pill. - Associated Press 


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