When you are looking at life-saving medications, looking at things that have the biggest barriers in terms of price or legality or infrastructure, [these] are the ones that are most in the political limelight, global health is at the front of human rights and women’s reproductive health is at the forefront of global health, so there is a natural choice to look at abortion drugs.

Michael Laufer

Categorized in : Health

We don’t ever want to be seen as pushing people to use it, saying this is what you should be doing. That’s a personal decision.

If you want to talk about danger. What exactly is the danger? People are already dying and they aren’t getting treated, and the treatment is on the shelf. That’s danger. That’s tragedy that we are already looking it.

Global health is at the front of human rights and women’s reproductive health is at the forefront of global health, so there is a natural choice to look at abortion drugs.

It’s one of a crisis between economics and morality. We’ve seen a number of times throughout history where those two things have come to a head.

I don’t think that the systems of insurance and traditional healthcare are ever going to go away, but I think that there is a great potential for those to be augmented, it could get to that stage where perhaps small communities have some specialist who knows enough that they are able to manufacture medications for their community.

There’s a list of things that you need to buy, where you can get them the cheapest. There’s code that you upload to the microcomputer and then there are separate programs for each thing that you want to synthesize.