Ru 486 Misconceptions Myths and Morals - ressourcesfeministes

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe would like to extend special gratitude to those whohelped in various ways with this project. For their thoughtfulcomments on the manuscript-in-progress, we thank RitaArditti, Gena Corea, Susan Hawthorne, Amy Hines, H.Patricia Hynes, Judy Luce and Jocelynne Scutt. RenateSadrozinski and Susanne von Paczensky clarified, in severaldiscussions, the simplicity of suction abortion. Elfie Mayerprovided documentation of the earlier anti-prostaglandinmovement in Germany. The women at ISIS Internationalin Geneva kindly searched their files for articles on bothRU 486 and prostaglandin. Among those we interviewed,we thank Paul van Look for information on the WHO trialsand Y.Q.Yang and J.T.Wu for discussing their research withus. Françoise Laborie sent us material from France andHélène Rouch provided useful contacts in Paris. InAustralia, Marie Iglesias and Christine Ewing helped withthe typing of the references, Rose Mildenhall with librarysearches, and Pierre Smith with the translation of discs andpreparation of transparencies. And without Chris Game’scomputer wizardry—not to mention her patience andinvaluable donation of time—we would not have retainedour sanity while persisting with three incompatiblecomputer systems.