Posted on 03/17/2006 5:54:11 AM PST by ladyshealth
No Room for Contraception Campaign Issues Call for Action in Response to Plan B Developments
New York City -- March 17, 2006 -- In response to the outrage of certain pro-contraception groups and senators at the nomination of Andrew von Eschenbach to be Commissioner of FDA, the No Room for Contraception Campaign issued the following release.
"No Room for Contraception would like remind to the FDA, the US Senate and the American people of the dangers of Plan B emergency contraception," said Mary Worthington, co-founder and spokeswomen for the campaign. "As with all hormonal contraceptives, this super-dose of hormonal birth control poses many potential dangers to women's health. To say that it is safe for over the counter use without explicit physician supervision is irresponsible medicine."
"Furthermore," said Worthington, "states such a New Hampshire have recently voted down measures that would require parental consent for acquiring the drug. Any other medication would require parental consent, yet Plan B and all other contraceptives, because they are so heavily guarded by powerful activist groups, get a special exemption. This is tragedy for teen girls' health care and parental rights."
Worthington went on to comment on the upcoming implementation of Wal-Mart stores new policy to distribute Plan B:
"Sadly, many major chain drugstores have no qualms about selling Plan B. Wal-Mart stores, whom No Room for Contraception has recently decried, are the most recent to jump on the Plan B bandwagon, requiring all of their stores to carry the drug as of this coming Monday. We encourage people to visit the No Room for Contraception website at www.noroomforcontraception.com to find simple action items to participate in such as writing letters to the editor of a local paper and staging boycotts in order to educate the community of the harms of so-called emergency contraception."
"In lieu of pushing easy access and over-the-counter access to emergency contraception, women's rights groups and groups concerned with sexual health and education should educate women on the health risks of hormonal contraceptives; men should be taught to respect, not use women. The fact that some associations are pushing for OTC status shows their disregard for women's and teen girls' health." No Room for Contraception is a campaign to expose the potential problems of contraception on marriage, society and women's health. The campaign's website is located at www.noroomforcontraception.com.
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