Posted on 08/03/2006 4:39:49 PM PDT by wagglebee
Abortion advocates claim that making the "morning-after pill" available over the counter would be safe and reduce pregnancies and abortions. The real-world experience shows just the opposite.
The morning-after pill is a high dose of the birth control pill, which requires a prescription to guard against serious complications such as blood clots.
The Food and Drug Administration has never allowed a nonprescription status for a high-dose drug when a low dose of the same drug needs a prescription.
The FDA first declined over-the-counter status, concerned it would harm adolescents. Now the FDA is negotiating a scheme for any "woman over 18" to buy it without a prescription.
Any adult could buy the drug and — even in the store — give it to a 13-year-old (without the parent's knowledge).
Neither FDA nor Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc., the drug maker, has the ability to punish people who sell or give the drug to a minor.
Countries that made the morning-after pill nonprescription show no drop in pregnancies or abortions. But sexually transmitted diseases skyrocketed.
Scotland made the morning-after pill nonprescription in 1999 and in 2005 reported its highest number of abortions since abortion was decriminalized in 1967.
In England, abortions increased from 176,000 in 2002 to 185,400 in 2004. In four years, chlamydia went up 76 percent. Gonorrhea went up 55 percent. Syphilis went up 54 percent. Genital warts went up 20 percent.
The FDA put limits on another reproductive drug, the abortion pill RU-486, that were promptly ignored by the drug owner.
Even after the deaths of numerous women, the FDA has not enforced its restrictions. Barr Pharmaceuticals has no incentive to reduce its sales and no means to penalize violators.
Easy access to the morning-after pill would be harmful to women and girls.
More of the FACTS that the leftists avoid.
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Hasn't there been a number of deaths to the mothers as well, caused by this damn stuff?
Yep.
Is any one keeping tabs on that, or is it like the death from AIDS being attributed to pneumonia?
And don't forget the arguments for no-fault divorces.......that it would let abused women out of abusive marriages. And we all know the end result of that, don't we? People can now simply walk away from their marriages and shatter the lives of their family members....cause they feel like it.
When will people PAY ATTENTION to the results of liberalism?
Are you talking about deaths from Plan B or RU 486?
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I wonder what the future effects on these women's bodies may be?
I thought both were very similar. I could be mistaken.
Here are some links:
http://www.abortionfacts.com/contraceptives/contraceptives.asp
http://www.nrlc.org/factsheets/index.html
No. You're thinking of RU-486, which has resulted in a handful of deaths (though the circumstances involved women who chose not to go to an emergency room for a long, long time after it was clear they were in serious trouble, and that's often how deaths associated with natural miscarriages occur too).
The tort industry, a-la John Edwards, are rubbing their hands gleefully in anticipation of this lucrative new market for themselves ..... Buhhhhhaahahaahahahaa .....
Gracias. I shall edumicate meself on it.
Got it. But are we sure its not being underreported? the libs will lie through their teeth to protect the abortion racket.
NO. You're confusing the morning after pill, a dose of standard contraceptives, with RU-486, the abortion pill. RU-486 has been linked to deaths. The Morning After Pill has NOT been.
If a drug can cause blood clots, it can be deadly. And what I see happening is that sluts will start taking these pills on a very regular basis.
"Hasn't there been a number of deaths to the mothers as well, caused by this damn stuff?"
I know there have been millions of deaths caused by childbirth. Someone should outlaw that damn stuff!
The morning after pill doesn't cause deaths, people are confusing it with RU abortion pills. It's a contraceptive and I'd rather have it legal. It's a little strange to me that so many Freepers want it banned. People have an inherent right to contraceptives, because a contraceptive isn't the same thing as an abortion (i.e. killing the unborn), it simply prevents the pregnancy. I have a right to use a condom and my girlfriend has a right to use this pill (which she has) if we want to. Government needs to stay out of it.
Yep. How many foolish 18+ year old girls will take this several times a month rather than get the prescription for the pill? Will this become a primary method of birth control? How many will have an undiagnosed medical problem that is complicated by Plan B? How many strokes, heart attacks or other problems will we see in young women? That ignores the dangers of illegal use by under 18 year old girls.
But what is the death of a few young women when you counter it with all that additional sex that can happen?
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