What Happens When There Is No Plan B? (or Conservatives made me have an abortion)

Washington Post ^ | Sunday, June 4, 2006 | Dana L

[Fzob]

The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn't want. Well, not literally, but let me explain.

I am a 42-year-old happily married mother of two elementary-schoolers. My husband and I both work, and like many couples, we're starved for time together. One Thursday evening this past March, we managed to snag some rare couple time and, in a sudden rush of passion, I failed to insert my diaphragm.

[Fzob]

This woman wants the government to force doctors, midwives, and pharmacists to violate their most closely held beliefs. She wants the government to use the threat of armed police action ( that IS what government law is) to violate the consciences of other so that she can have her whims fulfilled.

That about sums it up.

[Always Right]

You're right, this is so personal I have doubt it's a true story.

I have no doubt that they made it up. It is either totally made up or highly embellished.

[motoman]

Not only was her decision to abort her child tragic, but the complete lack God in her marriage was as tragic. She apparantly places no more value in this intimate act of marriage than that of a cheap, anonymous sexual encounter. If she truely loved her husband, she would cherish the gift of life that God blessed them with. But no - there is no respect for God, no awareness that marriage between man and a women is a living sacrament, that marriage is a holy covenant, with life being the fruit of that bond. Nope, instead, its been reduced to "let's screw, and if I get knocked up, George Bush better not get in the way of my abortion". This cannot be a marriage that involves "true" love.

[The Iguana]

One wonders if the untold legions of unexpectedly impregnated women unfortunate enough to live before the advent of Plan B were the victims of politicized religion - and George W. Bush - as well.

This one just takes your breath away.

[Enterprise]

"I see a new government agency here! Yeehah! (Also, eeeewwwww....)"

Yes, we can call it the D.I.A. - the Diaphragm Insertion Agency. The Defense Intelligenc Agency will have to rename itself.

And as for your "eeeewwwww" I must agree, but from this perspective. How in all decency can a woman, "a lawyer and a writer" publish the details of her sex life and tell people that she didn't insert her diaphragm and expect to be given any credibility and sympathy? What should she expect other than a huge "eeeewwwww" and outright derision? And then, she actually tries to put the blame on someone else! But I forget, this is a lawyer.

[Zman]

See if you can whine your self into a two-fer surgical rate and stop bothering the rest of us: while getting your tubes tied, see if there's special on lobotomies.

[NativeNewYorker]

Does she favor ever-higher taxes, regulations, and legal liabilities for the companies that develop drugs?

Does she favor free speech rights for people other than abortion protesters?

Does she favor legal encumbrances for, say, firearms ownership?

Is she, perchance, a Democrat providing sappy content for a Democrat newspaper for use on a slow Sunday?

[CaptainMorgantown]

This is only partly correct. The 'morning after' pill is not RU486, but basically just an extra heavy dose of regular birth control pills. It can act to prevent pregnancy in one of two ways:

1) The hormone contained in the birth control pill can act to delay or prevent ovulation. Since conception sometimes takes place a day or two after the act, if the pill is taken after the act but before ovulation and it successfully prevents ovulation then a pregancy can be prevented before it occurs.

2)The hormone can also irritate or thin the lining of the uterus, the preventing implantation of a fertilized embryo. Depending on one's definition of whether the pregnancy begins at conception or implantation, this could constitute an abortion.

I don't claim to have detailed medical expertise, but because of the precise timing requirements for #1 to occur, I have to believe that #2 is the more common mode of operation for the 'morning after' pill.

[Aliska]

She's blaming everybody but herself. I can believe it. If she thinks she was in a predicament, that is nothing compared to what my daughter is facing, won't go there again except to say she is now six months pregnant, and her ex-boyfriend who is not the father still thinks she should get an abortion.

It kind of makes me angry. Everybody has some risk or another in their pregnancy.

I think we have the wrong victim here.

[Aliska]

This women has no clue about personal responsibility

Neither did her husband it seems. He could have slapped on a condom in the heat of passion.

[carmenbmw]

Thank you for the clarification!
Wow, with the *D.I.A.*, if they respond like most governmental agencies, how many days/months ahead would ya have to sign up ahead of time for the , er, 'insertion'?
There go those moments of sudden passion! lol

[Fruitbat]

Well, the muslims are pushing for sharia law in parts of our country too. We'll see what happens....

[Millicent_Hornswaggle]

The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn't want.


Wrong answer. You had an abortion because you are a very selfish person. Your doctor doesn't prescribe the Plan B abortion pill? Maybe you go to this doctor because of the values his conservative religion instilled in him that make him a good doctor. Who knows? You had unprotected sex, you got pregnant. Instead of looking at the blessing that could have been to your family, you took the selfish,lazy way out and murdered your child. This had nothing to do with the Bush administration. This is your sorry attempt to lay the guilt that you feel at someone else's feet.

[The Great RJ]

If you and your husband are in your forties and agree your family is complete, why didn't your husband have a vasectomy? The procedure is quick, relatively painless and virtually 100% effective. Above all it takes the worry out of when you manage to snag some rare couple time. Don't blame the conservatives or George Bush that you couldn't have the abortion pill.

[Polybius]

The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn't want..... I failed to insert my diaphragm.

So, which is it, Dana L?

Were you "forced" to do something you didn't want to do or were you a careless idiot?

I sense that you feel that your constitutional right to be a careless idiot without any consequences has been violated.

[Millicent_Hornswaggle]

The downside to diaphrams is that they are only 85% effective. That's how we got blessing #2.

[Mr Rogers]

I failed to insert my diaphragm.

NOW the operative word is emphasized!

[Enterprise]

Just imagine the forms people will have to fill out and the questions they will have to answer.

When, and where did you have sexual intercourse?

A. Home
B. Car
C. Work
D. Other

How was the insertion of semen accomplished?

A. Spouse
B. Someone else's spouse.
C. Significant other, marriage status unknown.
D. Turkey baster

[Kaslin]

Also if she didn't want any more babies she could have had her tubes tied or asked her husmband to have a vasectomy

[mreerm]

As with most abortions, her main concern is her own convenience and the requirement that an innocent pay for her inconvenience.

It was inconvenient to put in her diaphragm.
That the doctor she chose didn't prescribe the pill was inconvenient.
Nature taking its course was inconvenient.
The timing of the weekend was inconvenient.
The pill not being available was inconvenient.
The fact that her 42 year system didn't behave identically to her friends was inconvenient.
Waiting a couple days was inconvenient.
You get the idea.

This is obviously a made-up story. She knew enough about the pill to call and ask for it as her first action but had to look at Planned Parenthood's website to see if their clinics performed abortions?!? Pllleeeeeeaaaaaase!