Wal-Mart ordered to carry 'morning-after' pill [great interview by conservative]

MSNBC ^ | 2/20/2006 | Tucker Carlson transcript

[Irish_Thatcherite]

That is plain wrong on so many fronts!!

[Cicero]

All these pills are dangerous, because they play with hormone levels and fertility cycles.

When "the pill" first came out, it was widely used by women, often with destructive long-term effects. Since then, it has been played with, weakened, and altered, but it's still risky.

The same with the morning-after pill, RU-486, contraceptive implants, and all the rest of these questionable drugs. If it were not for the overwhelming force of the abortion lobby, and the knee-jerk impulse to look the other way whenever contraception and abortion enter the picture, there would be a lot more questions about all these drugs.

[linda_22003]

I took the pill for several years with no ill effects. How many years were you on it? :)

[George from New England]

I'm confused?

1) Is wal-mart hated by the left because they are non-union?

OR

2) Is wal-mart hated because they are pro-life?

Seems to me there are some cimmonalities here!

[linda_22003]

Wal-Mart does carry and fill prescriptions for regular birth control pills; around FR that probably does not qualify them as "pro-life".

[NYer]

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[Brian Allen]

<< I've come to view TC as the left's Alan Colmes. >>

Doesn't David Gegen [Gerbal?] own that jersey?

[hocndoc]

Actually, some say that physicians should follow similar rules for medications. We had all our meds "behind a lockable drawer." If a physician dispenses meds, she must keep records, even for samples (most of us just use the patient chart). At least in Texas, if we charge to dispense, we must keep a pharmacy, with similar records and regulations.

[hocndoc]

If this is a physician-patient issue, then let the physician dispense.

Actually the medication, while possibly an actual contraceptive, is not proven to be life saving or even to positively act on the mother's health.

The right to refuse to act in such a way that a person believes will be harmful to another is one of the fundamental rights. To rule as the Board of Pharmacy has in Mass. goes against the pharmacists' and Walmart's liberty and right to property.

[hocndoc]

Hildy, the concern about the potential for abortifacient effects under the old, traditional definition (rather than the new definitions made up to accomodate IVF and the IUD, etc.) makes the difference between barrier methods of contraception and those which potentially interfer in the natural life cycle of a human being.

We're still not sure how these medication protocols work. But we know that there's no "emergency" to the whole thing. If the doctor is convinced that there is, he or she should dispense.

I'm almost convinced that the Plan B and Preven will be proven to be true contraceptives - the evidence is stronger every day that they only work before ovulation and don't have any effect on the embryo. But I won't prescribe or refer for them until I'm fully convinced. It's better to err on the side of caution.

[hocndoc]

I love the idea of $1000 a pill. Unfortunately, price-fixing is an old Dem strategy.

[rzeznikj at stout]

Much of the Comstock act was overruled with United States v. One Package of Japanese Pessaries (86 F.2d 737, 2nd Cir; 1936).

I agree there is nothing legal about abortifacient drugs. That's because the Supremes ordered it legal with Griswold v. Connecticut (381 U.S. 479; 1965) and Eisenstadt v. Baird (405 U.S. 438; 1972).

[Mr. Silverback]

You know, the economic definition of fascism is that you get to own your stuff, but the government can tell you what to do with it. Hmmmmm....

[Mr. Silverback]

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[rzeznikj at stout]

Condoms aren't considered a drug, and they have absolutely no way of terminating a pregnancy.

The morning after pill is known to be abortifacient--that is quite literally the whole point of the drug.

However, it is NOT a controlled substance as defined by the federal Controlled Substances Act (21 USC ss.801-971), and thus is not Scheduled by the DEA.

[Question_Assumptions]

Wal-Mart should close their pharmacies in that state.

[Hildy]

LOL!!! Yea, they're going to get rid of a huge profit center to make a point. Wishful thinking on your part.

[G Larry]

Yeah!
I want somebody to tell Wholefoods to resume selling Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream.

(They stopped selling it due to the transfats....)

[Question_Assumptions]

I think Sam Walton would have done it. Wal-Mart used to be about more than profit centers, or so anectodal evidence suggests. I guess that's gone the way of their "Buy American" philosophy...