Posted on 03/26/2007 9:01:05 AM PDT by Sopater
Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest abortion provider, has launched a "pill patrol" campaign to make sure emergency contraception is available in every neighborhood in America.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved over-the-counter sales of Plan B emergency contraception for women 18 and older last August. But Planned Parenthood complains that not all pharmacies are stocking the drug.
"Every day in America, women are forced to play the lottery when they walk into their neighborhood pharmacies and ask for Plan B emergency contraception (EC)," Planned Parenthood said on its website.
The group is encouraging its supporters to contact pharmacies at Costco, Target, Wal-Mart, or Osco stores - because those four chains have not signed on to Planned Parenthood's policy of guaranteeing women access to emergency contraception - "without discrimination or delay."
Planned Parenthood argues that refusal to fill EC prescriptions is unacceptable and puts women's health at risk. "That's why we've asked you for help," the website says. "Working together, we'll make sure pharmacies change their policies so women are guaranteed access to EC."
The group is offering a list of questions for "secret shoppers" to ask, including the name of the person who answers the phone; whether that particular pharmacy sells emergency contraception (if not, why not); if the pills are available now; and if any of the pharmacists refuse to fill such prescriptions.
"The most important part of this campaign is reporting your findings," Planned Parenthood said.
Pro-life groups such as Concerned Women for America consider emergency contraception an abortifacient because it can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.
According to CWA, about half the states have laws providing some form of protection for health care professionals who conscientiously object to providing the morning-after pill.
STOPP International, another pro-life group, says Planned Parenthood's top goal for the next 25 years is to push its agenda of "promiscuous sex everywhere in our society."
It also accuses the group of covering up for rapists and child predators by giving those adults the means to prevent minors from getting pregnant.
STOPP International, a project of the American Life League, is waging a campaign to end taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood.
"Plan B will NOT cause a miscarriage"
I think we can agree that an abortion is the same thing as causing a miscarriage?
Eating can make you fat, depending on how much you eat.
Spending money can make you broke, depending on how much you spend.
Having sex can create a baby, ALWAYS.
If I could find a way around any ONE of these, I'd be a billionaire.
But these laws of our existence can't be changed.
Doctors aren't in agreement about the effect of "plan B" because pro-aborts use falsehood and partial truth as their stock in trade.
It's not hard to research this stuff.
And my research convinces me that inhibiting implantation is the effect of Plan B which is most useful in preventing pregnancy. If Plan B did not have this effect it would be worthless.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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The difference is that one is deliberate and one is unintentional.
Miscarriages are abortions; however, it is widely recognized that this happens and is usually not intended. An accidental homicide. Yes, a person is dead, but not usually because someone intended for him/her to die.
Abortions, the way we commonly think of them, is the deliberate act of snuffing out the embryo or fetus. Emergency contraception thus qualifies because the uterine lining is hostile to a fertilized ovum, and because that fertilized ovum cannot attach to the lining and develop, it is ejected from the body and dies.
This, of course, notwithstanding the controversy over other methods of artificial contraception.
Planned Parenthood = ghouls
Technically yes - abortion is short-hand for "abortion of pregnancy."
Pregnancy is a condition experienced by the mother, which begins at implantation within the uterine wall.
However, the life of the baby, or fetus if you prefer, begins at conception - when sperm fertilizes ovum.
So it is technically correct to say that preventing implantation does not cause abortion, since pregnancy has not yet occurred. It is just as correct to say that preventing implantation DOES intentionally snuff out the life of the child, which is what we pro-lifers are opposed to.
They don't want them to modify their behavior. They make their big profits off the killing of unborn and sales of birth control (a lot of it sold to teens and single women and men promiscously sleeping around). Take away abortion and birth control, and their current profits will plummet.
plus they personally approve of that lifestyle, which is so destructive.
Yep, to them any of the destructive results, even if an unborn child has to be killed, are worth the risk.
I suspect that many years from now when these same people find out that they can no longer have children, now that they are "ready" for them - they will be very, very sorry.
I agree. I particapte in a pro-life forum and one of the women on there counsels women who have had abortions. Well, this one woman had 10 abortions. Then, she decided she wanted to have a child. Of course, at that point, her uterus lining was so destroyed, she could have no children. It's people like that you really can't feel sorry for, though. God blessed her with 10 children, and she aborted all 10 of them.
Has there been a case where a customer was unable to buy a pork product because a cashier refused to ring it up? I've seen stories about customers being asked to pass it over the scanner themselves or another cashier being called over, but I haven't heard of anyone who couldn't, so to speak, bring home the bacon.
(That's a silly case anyway, because the prohibition is against consuming pork or alcohol, not touching a container; but if someone wants to be weirdly ritualistic about it, I have no right to judge.)
The key phrase is from the Americans with Disabilities Act, but I think it applies to religious beliefs, as well -- "reasonable accommodation." If you don't want to ring up Plan B, or birth control pills, condoms, pork, alcohol or caffeine, and there's someone else on the premises who can, no big whoop.
If no one else can, that's a problem. In any retail business, your job is to help customers buy what your employer is trying to sell. If you can't do that, then you can't do the job, and you should look for an employer who doesn't carry what you don't want to sell.
You don't get out of the city much, do you? There are plenty of corners in this nation with one local pharmacy, and the next nearest one at least an hour's drive away. That's based on my driving through rural Georgia. I'd imagine that out West, the distances can get significantly greater.
Repeat abortions are a pathology. I think that these women want a "replacement baby" but can't bring themselves to give birth. Then when they finally have the courage, it is too late. They should sue the abortion mills for not "counseling them" that they have other options besides abortion and for not warning them of the dangers of continuously aborting. PP is not doing them any favors.
I don't live in the city. And yes, I get out a whole lot. Over the past 20 years I've seen most of the country except for 3 states.
You are correct. I bet Tonopah, Nevada, Ft. Stockton, Texas and Two Dot, Montana have only one pharmacy. But then again, most of the people in the country don't live in those towns. In fact a very tiny percentage of Americans live in towns that small . I'm not suggesting everyone has four pharmacies on a nearby street corner, but the vast majority of the US population is within a short distance of two or three or more pharmacies.
They sure aren't. Did you know PP only refers one adoption for every 180 abortions? To me, that's both amazing and sad because they claim to help a woman consider all her options.
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