The Wire

There is one very basic premise of business: Supply and demand. The more demand there is for a commodity the higher the price and the better the availability. The more demand there is for a commodity the more interested businesses are in supplying it. Except in the case of RU 486. RU 486 is a medical abortion pill which saw huge amounts of publicity in a debate around its availability last year. As a result of the debate RU 486 was given the Caroline De Costa is one of the two Australians with special authority to bring the pill into the country, and along with Dr Leslie Cannold, she talks about why the pill isn’t here.