[kcvl]

Are you comparing plastic surgery with "emergency contraception"? Since when did a plastic surgeon lobby elected officials to "research", advertise(allocate $10 million annually for five years to educate health care providers and the public about emergency contraception) and then become the distributer of THE product?

[TheAngryClam]

I was using plastic surgeons as an example of doctors pushing on both the supply side and the demand side.

As for companies lobbying to get the government to carry a lot of water for them, where to begin?

Railroads, for one. Detroit auto manufacturers were another. There were the various Crown Chartered companies in England back in the day. Biotech is pretty big on suckling at the federal teat these days.

I don't really have much of a problem with it either- you won't hear me ranting about "corporate welfare," as you seem to be doing. I just am mystified by your unwillingness to realize that such things occur every single day, and your expectation that abortion providers should work differently to be rather amusing, is all.