This story is on the front page of my local paper (Kankakee Daily Journal) but it is not on their website and a a google search came up empty. Can someone help find it?Firms covertly fight drug bill - Use religious groups: profits key
A Christian lobbying group fighting the proposed importation of low-cost prescription drugs has recieved behind-the-scenes help from the drug industry, the latest example of pharmacutical companies trying to influence Congress clandestinely.
The Traditional Values Coalition, which bills itself as a Christian advocacy group representing 43,000 churches, has mailed to the districts of several conservative House Republicans this sharply disputed warning: legislation to allow the importation of U.S.-made pharmaceuticals from Canada and Europe might make RU-486, the so-called "abortion pill," as easy to get as aspirin.
The Traditional Values Coalition (TVC) portrays its campaign as a moral fight for the "sanctity of life." Documents provided to the Washington Post, however, show that drug lobbyists played a key role in crafting its arguement and disseminatinf the information to lawmakers. Pharmaceutical companies oppose the legislation - which would legalize the reimportation of U.S.-made prescription drugs that sell for less in Canada than in the United States - not over abortion, but because it would erode their profits.
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