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Posted on 08/30/2006 4:44:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
So what if minor girls can't buy emergency contraceptives without a prescription?
Their rapists can.
When last week the FDA authorized over-the-counter access of ECs to women 18 and older, it also authorized over-the-counter access to men 18 and older.
Why would men buy ECs?
Ask Thailand, where ECs have been marketed for 20 years.
In Thailand, ECs are advertised in men's magazines.
In Thailand, several studies corroborate what researchers for the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health found, that "the majority of purchasers are men buying EC for women. … Women, especially adolescents, said that they feel ashamed to purchase EC themselves."
"Especially adolescents."
Recall Thailand is where pedophile John Mark Karr was recently nabbed on suspicion of murdering JonBenet Ramsey. The spotlight on Karr exposed Thailand as a haven for child sex predators. ECs must come in handy.
The U.S. is not yet a child sex toy land like Thailand. But authorities and investigative journalists have recently warned that child porn and sex predation are on the rise here, particularly due to the Internet.
Thanks to the FDA's approval of easy access to emergency contraceptives, expect a spike.
What about women over 18?
The Bangkok Post reported, "[Men] buy the pills for their girlfriends or wives … so that they don't have to wear condoms and feel they're at no risk of becoming a father afterwards. Some women … said that they didn't even know what they were taking; that the guy just said it was a health supplement.''
Yes, we have here a real advancement for women – increased exposure to STDs by ingesting mega-doses of female steroids (for which no long-term research has been done) – sometimes without even knowing it.
I don't know whether acting FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach was caving to or cavorting with radical feminists when making his decision, but it was irresponsible and dangerous.
For starters, have you ever heard of the FDA making the high dose of any drug available on the store shelf while locking the lower dose in the pharmacy?
Here's the magnitude of difference between prescription-only birth control pills and now nonprescription ECs: Planned Parenthood recommends taking 40 Ovrette brand birth control pills at one time to equal the dosage of the EC.
Meanwhile, feminist groups – and politicians like Hillary Clinton whom they pay off (who held up von Eschenbach's confirmation pending his Plan B concession) – stand now to make a killing from it.
Planned Parenthood struck a deal with Barr Pharmaceuticals in 2004 to purchase Plan B for "special pricing at $4.50 and $4.25, respectively," according to a confidential memo written by Planned Parenthood's president of medical affairs, Vanessa Cullen, which was forced public during a court case.
Planned Parenthood has been selling Plan B for $20-$30, with a scheme already in place to undercut pharmacies.
"The emergency contraception pills will cost between $21 (if purchased from our health centers) or $28-$35 (if purchased from a pharmacy)," states Planned Parenthood Chicago's website – emphasis theirs. Even at $21, Planned Parenthood makes a 350-400 percent profit.
President Bush's tacit support to sell Plan B to adults without a prescription is bewildering. Was he ill-informed by advisers? Was he making a political decision? Was he just tired of fighting?
Whatever. The FDA is charged with determining drug protocol that ensures the American public's health and safety.
By its Plan B decision, the FDA has certainly ensured the increased health and safety of child sex predators, rapists, and male low-lifes.
By its Plan B decision, the FDA has certainly ensured the increased health and safety of child sex predators, rapists, and male low-lifes.
Exactly!
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Law of unintended consequences
Or possibly intended by some leftist groups.
Thailand??
"The U.S. is not yet a child sex toy land like Thailand."
Not until Ruth Bader Ginsburg gets her way.
the problem is that either "plan B" (why it is called that is beyond me) either takes a life or it doesn't. Once you decide that it doesn't, it is very difficult to then complain about which adults can and cannot buy it. That is not to say that I am against this article, just that the battle on this has been lost, and there is no point arguing about the details.
From the Planned Parenthood Website:
When to Have a Child
Whether you are planning a pregnancy or having an unplanned pregnancy, whether you have a partner or plan to be a single parent, here are some considerations about deciding if it’s time to have a child. If there are two of you, see if your reality checks match.
Reality Check — When to Have a Child
Certain Uncertain
[] [] I am ready to help a child feel wanted and loved.
[] [] I am ready to cope with tighter budgets, less time for myself, and more stress.
[] [] I communicate well with my partner, family, and friends.
[] [] I will be able to keep from harming the child physically or emotionally.
[] [] I am ready to come to terms with my own childhood experience.
[] [] I have the support of family and friends.
[] [] I am not rigid about how to solve problems.
[] [] I am ready to accept responsibility to try and meet all the levels of need my child develops.
PP forgot this one:
Certain [] Uncertain [] I am a stupid slut who doesn't know how to keep her legs crossed.
It is called "Plan B" because that is the innocuous sounding term that is accepted by the culture as a good thing. "RU 4-86" had bad connotations to people, so it was renamed from "skunk" to "rose", but it still stinks.
I, frankly, am grateful that more of my days on this earth are behind me than ahead of me - and, if the Lord decides to drop the curtain on this whole rottening mess, I pray He saves those who will WAKE UP and "strengthen that which remains and is almost ready to die" and for those who choose to be filthy, then let them "be still in their filth" when the curtain suddenly drops, and that without remedy at that point.
"The emergency contraception pills will cost between $21 (if purchased from our health centers) or $28-$35 (if purchased from a pharmacy)," states Planned Parenthood Chicago's website – emphasis theirs. Even at $21, Planned Parenthood makes a 350-400 percent profit.
Planned Barrenhood expects to make about $100,000,000 in profits on the sale of "Plan B" over the first 5 years that it is available over the counter.
Because the people there do nothing but rape babies.
Boy, I'm glad to have survived from the rapist pedophile's heaven known as Thailand.
I, frankly, am grateful that more of my days on this earth are behind me than ahead of me
Coincidentally, just yesterday I and a friend had this exact same conversation, and we aren't THAT old, really. We agreed that the future looks bleak and comparing today's childhood situations to what we had - no contest! We had the freedom to be children! Sad.
It causes the embryo to be shed with the uterine lining. It's the same mechanism as the regular Pill, only in a larger hormonal dose.
There is no debate that it's an abortifacient.
If this stuff is really a form of steroid those who take it will never be able to be successfully treated with homeopathics.
Sad for them since homeopathics properly administered don't produce the side effects common to chemical sorceries called prescriptions that call for the purchase of more side effects producing chemicals.
In affect it closes one treatment avenue. That should serve Big Pharma's bottom line ever so well.
[That is not to say that I am against this article, just that the battle on this has been lost, and there is no point arguing about the details.]
I'm sure there are a lot of people who would disagree with your statement - me, for one. This battle has not been "lost" and will continue as long as this pill is on the market.
Plan B can be an abortifacient and it will be abused. The health consequences are unknown . There are lots of "details" that should be continually discussed and scrutinized.
Do They have a checklist like this?
When to End a Future Child's Life
Its the same checklist. A couple of uncertains and..
Read what Barr says on its website. You will find that they admnit that these large doses of hormones can prevent the implantation of a newly created human being with its own DNA.
Has anybody ever planned to be a parent through "Planned Parenthood" [haw!]
I think that checklist should be filled out by both MEN and WOMEN before they get naked. If not, then no sex. I think filling it out once the chick got preggers is a bit late.
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Fool.
I have little concern for the health of such stupid women. That said, a friend of mine took what she called a "morning after" set of pills a number of years ago while in France. She said they made her very sick. She never wanted to have to take them again (condom broke).
There is a horrifyingly rapid increase of HIV/AIDS there:
"[M]ore than one-in-100 Thai adults in this country of 65 million people is infected with HIV, and AIDS has become a leading cause of death."
Source
Great hope also springs to mind because of the opening of a home for women and children escaping the sex trade called The Garden, and for the orphans of AIDS victims (and others) through Im Jai House, both projects of Wellspring International, a ministry through Ravi Zacharias/RZIM.
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this:
to look after orphans and widows in their distress
and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.
James 1:27
May more who call on the Father indeed practice their religion in this way. Amen.
"If this lady was really worried about pedophiles, maybe she might want to start writing some stories about the Catholic Church..."
The Catholic Church?
Nice to know that we don't have to worry about finding pedos among the Protestants, the Mormons, the Jews, the Mohammedans, school teachers, scout leaders, coaches, doctors, police, etc., etc.
Do I perceive a bit of bigotry here?
<< If this (woman) was really worried about pedophiles, maybe she might want to start writing some stories about the Catholic Church ... >>
How you must hate Catholics to have so casually slung the Church that gratuitous insult.
During all the years of all of the fuss caused by the faggot invasion of the Catholic Church -- a far-worse reflection, by the way, on the invading and corrupting faggots than, for all of its stumbling/bumbling on the matter, on the Church -- there averaged 200 incidents of faggot-posing-as-priest child sexual molestations. (For nary a one of which I offer anything other than rank condemnation!)
But during the same period -- and currently -- America's school "teachers" perpetrated an average annual more than thirty-five thousand child sexual molestations -- and worse -- with nary a peep from the likes of you nor from the NEA's and your complicit Catholic-hating malignant-mouthed media maties.
Bah. Humbug.
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As insulting as painting Thailand wholesale as a pedoparadise.
The Vatican and the Thai authorities DO NOT want pedos running around, period.
<< As insulting as painting Thailand wholesale as a pedoparadise. >>
Absolutely. As I, sitting here in Chiang Mai Thailand, am painfully aware. But who would ever know that Thailand has, for example, fewer prostitutes per capita than has America or that, take out the degenerate scum of once-great Britain and of the rest of dead and decadent Europe and of Australia, New Zealand and of the United States -- and the Thai People comprise a far more moral nation than do almost any other people on Earth.
This notwithstanding that poverty and hunger are the most efficatious aphrodisiacs and that absolute corruption best breeds poverty and hunger.
Correct. A lot of pedos are expats.
Thailand may have a problem with pedos but not to the breathless reports and slanders make them out to be.
<< Thailand may have a problem with pedos but not to the breathless reports and slanders make them out to be. >>
Khob Pra Khun Krab.
Mai pen rai. Khon dee thong prok pong bann kerd meung non jakk kaan sai ray. :)
bttt
mm-hmmm
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