Hector Duarte Jr. - All Headline News Staff Reporter

In a letter to acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, the members of Congress practically accuse the agency of earlier postponing a ruling because of politics

State GOP Chairman Gilbert Baker is speaking out against one doctor's decision to perform free abortions for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

According to Baker, the evacuees have already endured the trauma of a hurricane and might not be in the right frame of mind to make a life-or-death decision

Little Rock Family Planning clinic director Dr. Jerry Edwards is performing free abortions, for Hurricane victims. Edwards worries that waiting until it is safe to go home and have the procedure done will put the expecting mothers at risk.

Edwards tells KTHV-TV in Little Rock, "If we didn't provide it now, they would get it later -- a late-term abortion that would give greater risk to the mother's health

A test released Wednesday shows that the drug misoprostol is almost as effective as surgery for removing tissue that remains in the uterus after a failed pregnancy.

The drug, called Cytotec by manufacturers G.D. Searle and Pfizer Inc., has a success rate of around 85 percent, says Jun Zhang of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the chief author of the study

New research shows that babies conceived due to the failure of the "morning after" pill, levonorgestrel, are just as healthy as other babies.

The study involved 36 pregnant women who were exposed to levonorgestrel and 80 similar women who were not. A total of 25 deliveries took place in the exposed group and 69 occurred in the nonexposed group