Wow. In the New York Times today, reporter Gardiner Harris reports on how federal regulators have found that all four women who died after taking the RU-486 abortion drug cocktail “suffered from a rare and highly lethal bacterial infection.” Harris reported “officials from the F.D.A. and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have decided to convene a scientific meeting early next year to discuss this medical mystery, according to two drug agency officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the topic.” The story centers on the death of Holly Patterson, whose father Monty is pictured and has campaigned to get the drug’s safety investigated. (The media blackout of her story is chronicled here. )