[Rubber_Duckie_27]

"Five states, including Washington, California, Alaska, Hawaii and New Mexico, already allow women to buy the drugs directly from pharmacists, though they are not on the shelves of stores."

I would prefer that this be the method of dispensing this drug without a prescription - and it should require that the woman buying it be 18 or older. No scared 15 year old should be able to walk into a drugstore and buy this medication as easily as she could buy aspirin! If making this drug more available means that women who make a mistake might take it instead of waiting a few months for an actual abortion, then I feel it's OK. I just would want to ensure that minors are restricted from purchasing it, and that even adult women recieve counseling on the potential side effects of the drug. Hormonal contraceptives require prescriptions for VERY good reasons! It looks as if making this OTC is a done deal, but there could still be controls in place for the dispensing of this potentially-dangerous drug.

Although I respect the beliefs of others, it will be a cold day in hell before I allow extreme pro-lifers to make birth control pills illegal. My fiance and I are both pro-life, but intend to limit the size of our family to a maximum of four or five kids. Frankly, we could not possibly financially support a huge family and still allow one parent to stay home with kids. We also intend to NOT start our family immediately after marriage. We don't consider controlling the size and spacing of our family to be a sinful act. Those who want to outlaw condoms or any form of birth control are not doing the pro-life cause any favors, because the majority views them as insane.

[ckca]

because the majority views them as insane.

They view Jesus the same.

If you take the Pill, You are killing babies. So do real pro-lifers a favor: do not claim to be pro-life.

[TheAngryClam]

See, welcome to the pro-life hell that I talked about at the beginning.

No sense of how to actually change culture. They'll just scream "MURDERER!" and "JESUS!!!" all day long, leaving anyone who's normal to just shrug and walk away.

They're like the Howard Dean fanatics, but conservative.

[Diamond]

If making this drug more available means that women who make a mistake might take it instead of waiting a few months for an actual abortion, then I feel it's OK

What is an "actual" abortion? A non-hypothetical abortion?

Sorry, my FRiend; if you and your sex partner are using these drugs for "birth control" then you are deliberately risking the abortion killing of a new human being, because a woman cannot know in advance when any of these drugs will prevent fertilization or block implantation. These hormones are not necessarily contraceptive in nature.

In a civilized society, parents are deemed responsible for the care and nurture of their children. To ingest such drugs knowing that they may cause the death of one of your children is the moral equivalent of criminally negligent homicide. For the government to undermine human life and the family itself by allow OTC sales of these substances to minors without parental knowledge and consent is reprehensible.

Cordially,

[Kuksool]

{it should require that the woman buying it be 18 or older. No scared 15 year old should be able to walk into a drugstore and buy this medication as easily as she could buy aspirin!...I just would want to ensure that minors are restricted from purchasing it, and that even adult women receive counseling on the potential side effects of the drug. Hormonal contraceptives require prescriptions for VERY good reasons! It looks as if making this OTC is a done deal, but there could still be controls in place for the dispensing of this potentially-dangerous drug.}

You make good points. If pro-lifers followed your advice instead of breaking down into hysterical rants, then they could gain some political traction with the FDA and the general public. Sometimes the pro-abort's best friend is the rabid pro-lifer.