tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18335846.post116015424484506628..comments2024-01-07T22:12:48.097-05:00Comments on On the road (to abolition): A life is a life, isn't it?tcaskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16426653143463528003noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18335846.post-1160669736370312842006-10-12T11:15:00.000-05:002006-10-12T11:15:00.000-05:00Remember Ru-486? Perhaps you may still yet recall...Remember <B>Ru-486</B>? Perhaps you may still yet recall the <B>1994 National Right To Committee Boycott</B> of pharmaceutical products manufactured by the German pharmaceutical company formerly known as <B>Hoechst AG</B> and all Hoechst subisdiary operations including the U.S. based <B>Hoechst Marion Roussel(HMR)</B>, and more particularly the Hoechst-owned cardiac prescription drug <B>Altace</B>.<BR/><BR/>By the early summer of 1995 (and during the ongoing National Right To Life Committee Boycott of Hoechst), then King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. President Jefferson "Jeff" Gregory (brother of then King CEO John M. Gregory) began negotiations with Hoechst to acquire U.S. marketing and distribution rights to Altace and other Hoechst branded pharmaceutical products. <BR/><BR/>The Gregorys completed the accquistion of Altace from Hoechst during late 1998, thereby allowing King Pharmaceuticals (and more specifically, the King subsidiary Monarch Pharmaceuticals) to become a business partner and circumvent both the NRTLC boycott of Hoechst pharma products within U.S. markets and to sanitize the Hoechst corporate image with the United States (giving up the corporate name "Hoechst" in January 1999 and undertaking at least one corporate merger that would help disassociate the new corporate identity with RU-486. <BR/><BR/>The Gregorys (based in Bristol, Tennessee) became extremely wealthy after Altace was reintroduced into the U.S. market under the Monarch Pharmaceuticals brand. Gregorys had also become more influential within the Tennessee Republican political circles by making extremely generous campaign contributions under a "pro-life" and "conservative" banner.<BR/><BR/>Read more at:<BR/><BR/><B>Tennessee RU-486 Representative Matthew Hill</B><BR/>http://matthewlistens.blogspot.com<BR/><BR/><B>Hill Boy's Deception</B><BR/>http://impeachmatthewhill.blogspot.com<BR/><BR/>You will not ever find Rep. Matthew Hill speaking out against the RU-486 abortion drug or speaking about <B>"Altace"</B> and <B>abortion</B> in the same breath...Elmer Gantryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17039248772550330916noreply@blogger.com