Posted on 11/27/2013 10:46:45 AM PST by Morgana
On Monday the liberal magazine Mother Jones reported:
The European manufacturer of an emergency contraceptive pill identical to Plan B, also known as the morning-after pill, will warn women that the drug is completely ineffective for women who weigh more than 176 pounds and begins to lose effectiveness in women who weigh more than 165 pounds. [emphasis added]
The article also states:
Weight data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) suggests that, at 166 pounds, the average American woman is too heavy to use these pills effectively [emphasis added].
Add this to the ever-growing body of evidence that the increasing propagation of so-called “emergency contraception” (EC) has been an utterly failed strategy. (Indeed, this news comes just a few weeks after an article was published in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management which found that increased access to EC has had no significant effect on unintended pregnancy or abortion rates—but that it may have led to a decrease in reports of rape.)
Shortly after this news broke, the nation’s largest abortion chain tweeted:
One suspects this tweet was written by Planned Parenthood’s lawyers.
Remember: the new finding is that Plan B (and other forms of EC) don’t work at all for women over 176 pounds, and all Planned Parenthood can say is that women should choose a “better option”? Seriously?
Note also that Planned Parenthood didn’t include a link to the Mother Jones article (or, for that matter, any other article) with more information. So much for being America’s “most trusted provider of reproductive health care.”
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What remains to be seen now is whether Planned Parenthood will still give EC to women for whom it either won’t work or won’t likely work. Over the past decade, EC has become a major cash cow for them, and it’s hard to envision them hurting their own bottom line, especially considering how many of their clients would fall into one of these two categories. A Staggering Increase in Planned Parenthood’s EC Numbers
In 2001, Planned Parenthood, distributed [PDF] 458,892 EC kits. Their numbers continued to increase substantially each year, and in 2004 [PDF], Planned Parenthood distributed nearly one million EC kits.
In 2011 [PDF] (the last year for which data are available), they distributed over 1.4 million EC kits—a staggering increase of 210% over the number they distributed in the first year of this century.
And let’s not forget that it’s we the taxpayers who are often the ones footing the bill for the EC given out by Planned Parenthood.
Do you really think Planned Parenthood is going to allow such a huge chunk of their revenue stream to dry up?
Ummm, not really. I have hair to my waist and my bra size is 38F. Long hair and breasts add weight.
You are probably right. Meanwhile, at the local Walmart, I think well over 50% of the female shoppers exceed 175 lbs.
Yeah, it's a class 1 carcinogen (as defined by the World Health Organization), causes blood clots & strokes (in _young_ women), is an abortificant, and even after all of that, isn't fully effective in what it claims to do.
Are you Barack Hussein Obama?
She’s a keeper!
I kept putting this date I had on the scale because she was shouting "I wanna get waid!" She was quite slim, but had the Elmer Fudd speech impediment.
It's not just the women.
On a related note, the last time I went in for a physical, the nurse taking my BP said "I think you're the first person I've seen today with a normal BMI and blood pressure." This was at 3:30 in the afternoon.
Wow!
So, what are you doing later?
lol
this is the beginning of the Democrat’s war on heavy women
No, you are right, it’s not just women. I singled out women only because they are the market for the morning after pill. There is an obesity epidemic, and the government is largely to blame.
“Women should be encouraged to be on regular BC.”
Sure, let’s just contribute to the slutification of our culture. Why not?
No I’m not Obama. lol but BC pills are extremely safe. Safer than aspirin and pregnancy has much higher elevated risk of blood clots.
That particular woman ‘makes videos’ in various skimpy gowns. Sells them online. There was a long story in the British Daily Mail about her. She wants to be BIGGER THAN BIG!! Make the book of records.
If they're "extremely safe" then why did the FDA just increase warnings that they cause blood clots?!?
You have no idea what you are talking about.
Lol!
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