Posted on 12/14/2012 4:22:18 AM PST by Daveinyork
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists announced its support last month for selling oral contraceptives over the counter without a prescription in the United States. I agree with this opinion, which if embraced by the federal government would take contraception out of the political arena.
As a conservative Republican, I believe that we have been stupid to let the Democrats demagogue the contraceptives issue and pretend, during debates about health-care insurance, that Republicans are somehow against birth control. It's a disingenuous political argument they make.
As an unapologetic pro-life Republican, I also believe that every adult (18 years old and over) who wants contraception should be able to purchase it. But anyone who has a religious objection to contraception should not be forced by government health-care edicts to purchase it for others. And parents who believe, as I do, that their teenage children shouldn't be involved with sex at all do not deserve ridicule.
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That could not happen today.
Looka this.
Unsurprising news from the world of contraception
Gov. Jindal is making so much sense here that I’m afraid there’s just no way the current electorate will ever elect him President.
Contraceptives kill thousands of women and young girls every year, and more widely help force women into unwanted sex. So much for freedom.
Source?
1. Are there any countries where this is already the law? What is their experience?
2. There would be some irony here. To get cold medicine with ephedrine in it, you must ask the pharmacist, but you can get a hormone powerful enough to shut down your period by just reaching for it on the drug store shelf. Do we have anything else that significant that is sold over the counter?
Even cigarettes are behind the counter, but maybe that’s because they are likely to be stolen, not because of their dangerousness.
Well, that "you can use it to cook up meth, and in the process of cooking up meth you could blow yourself up and cause an ecological disaster for your neighbors" argument might have something to do with it. Just a guess.
Well, that "you can use it to cook up meth, and in the process of cooking up meth you could blow yourself up and cause an ecological disaster for your neighbors" argument might have something to do with it. Just a guess.
well, ok. I guess nobody has yet blown up their trailer using birth control pills.
You sound like a big government progressive.
Oh for pity’s sake! There’s nothing progressive about
killing women with the poison called contraceptives!
Doubles the risk of venous thromboembolism (that’s about
4,000 life-threatening cases a year), increased stroke risk,
and increases various types of cancer. Significant increases
in HIV, thought to be caused by damaging the immune system.
So you would use the powere and the violence of the government to protect them from themselves. That’s the essence of progressivism.
That’s more big government progressivism.
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