Posted on 12/19/2003 8:47:49 AM PST by kimmie7
STANEK: FDA poised to approve pedophile thrill pill
Thursday, December 18, 2003
By Jill Stanek (Jill@illinoisleader.com)
OPINION -- Tuesday an FDA joint committee recommended that Plan B, an emergency contraceptive, be approved for sale without prescription. The final FDA decision is expected in February.
I attended the committee meeting to testify in opposition and spent six hours listening in disbelief. To put it bluntly, I never cease to be amazed at the stupidity of smart people, although the Bible often notes this phenomenon. There is no other way to explain the support most doctors and pharmacists on the committee gave to such a dangerous public safety risk.
My heart broke during the public portion of the meeting as the National Organization for Women paraded several pathetic 20-somethings up to the mic to brazenly tell the world about the horrors of their boyfriends’ condoms breaking or slipping off at the wrong moment, and what were they to do without ECs as plan b?
These sad dupes support easily accessible ECs to have yet one more way to avoid the consequences of illicit sex.
That is precisely the reason pedophiles support easily accessible ECs.
Sexual predators would welcome this tool to keep assaults of stepdaughters, nieces, daughters of friends, or infatuated students hidden, storing a stash of ECs in their bedroom drawer or pocket to give their victim after each rape. No pregnancy, no evidence.
ECs have been available over-the-counter in Thailand for 16 years. Last year, The Bangkok Post reported, “Several random studies have shown that men are the most frequent buyers of the morning-after pills and that many learn about it from adverts in men’s magazines.”
It is always helpful to use the other side’s words to aid our cause. I did this at the hearing, showing PowerPoint slides of actual Planned Parenthood, NARAL, and Alan Guttmacher Institute (research arm of PP) web pages during my oral presentation with copies attached to my written testimony, not that it mattered to the committee.
Now the decision rests with Commissioner Mark McClellan, a Bush appointee. Although the FDA usually follows recommendations of advisory committees, perhaps saner heads will prevail regarding this impending health and safety disaster than when Clinton ruled the roost.
Speaking of, former Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders, a Clinton appointee, coauthored a revealing commentary published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in August 1998 that stated, “Pregnancy may also be a sign of ongoing sexual abuse.... Of 535 young women [studied] who were pregnant, 44% had been raped.... One half of these young women… were raped more than once.”
Guttmacher acknowledges on its website, “The younger women are when they first have intercourse the more likely they are to have had unwanted or nonvoluntary first sex, 7 in 10 of those who had sex before age 13, for example.”
Planned Parenthood confesses, “Teenage girls with older partners are more likely to become pregnant than those with partners closer in age.”
Planned Parenthood also confesses, “Teenagers who have been raped or abused also experience higher rates of pregnancy - in a sample of 500 teen mothers, two-thirds had histories of sexual and physical abuse, primarily by adult men averaging age 27, and “among women younger than 18, the pregnancy rate among those with a partner who is six or more years older is 3.7 times as high as the rate among those whose partner is no more than two years older.”
Clearly, pregnant minors are probably the victims of sexual abuse, and interaction with medical professionals is critical to their safety, since they are mandated reporters.
When NARAL wrote in support of making ECs available by prescription in December 2001, it said, “The need for emergency contraception can bring… young women in particular into family planning centers, where they can receive other health care services and counseling.... Emergency contraception provides a bridge to ongoing contraception and disease prevention.” Interestingly, NARAL has removed this web page, although I happen to have kept a copy.
Without the medical professional link to ECs, a sexual predator will be liberated to commit his crime on an ongoing basis and probably at greater frequency.
Elders concluded, “Health care professionals need to improve their abilities to identify and support adolescent girls who are experiencing nonvoluntary sex and are subsequently at risk for unplanned pregnancies…. Breaking the code of silence can be the first step to halt ongoing abuse and begin the healing process.”
Elders’ recommendations will be preempted if ECs are made available over-the-counter.
The Bangkok Post concluded, “Although many feminists believe the morning-after pill gives them more control over their own bodies, it would seem, judging from the few studies conducted so far, that it is actually being used by men to exploit women.”
And girls.
© 2003 Illinois Leader.com
I don't understand this. There's no evidence if there's no pregnancy? That doesn't seem correct.
"If you support the morning-after pill, you are a PEDOPHILE!"
Neat.
Now if we can just claim supporters of this pill are Al Qaeda, the circle will be complete.
How poignantly pathetic. If these "feminists" were capable of exerting a modicum of "control" over their sweating bodies, they wouldn't need this pill to abort their wanton progeny.
"Jane, you poor misguided SLUT!"
IMHO, that is. ;-/
How poignantly pathetic. If these "feminists" were capable of exerting a modicum of "control" over their sweating bodies, they wouldn't need this pill to abort their wanton progeny.
As Dan Ayckroyd used to say on SNL's "Point-Counterpoint":
"Jane, you poor misguided SLUT!"
IMHO, that is. ;-/
I have to admit that this is a side of the morning after pill that I had never considered. However, whenever a person uses a blatently false statement in their argument, it causes me to question the validity of the rest of their case.
The statement above (in bold) is false. A corrected statement might very well be:
The possibility of the giving the perpetrator the ability to eliminate an unwanted pregnancy, in many cases may make the crime difficult to prove, unless reported immediately after the incident.
It's like saying a person is in favor of bank robbers because we champion the ownership of automobiles.
It's really a very lame connection on the part of this author. Kinda like liberal tactics, y'know? If someone is anti-morning after pills, fine. But criticize it with some intellectual honesty. Don't try to tell me that being pro-morning-after pill is being pro-pedophilia. That's crazy talk.
This disturbed me. I'm personally against the pill at all, but if I supported it -- this would definitely make me think twice about making it so easily accessible.
Well, then. Proof positive. After all, Bangkok has a pedophila industry. The study was done in Bangkok, showing men learn about the pill in mens magazines.
Ergo, supporters of this pill are pedophiles.
I'm sorry, kimmie. I know you were trying to do your best by posting this article, but it's a pretty nutty premise.
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