Posted on 08/21/2006 1:50:58 PM PDT by Pyro7480
President Bush Approves Over the Counter Early Abortion Pill, Pro-Life Base Decries Move
By John-Henry Westen
WASHINGTON, August 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - For his pro-life supporter base, President George W. Bush stepped into one of the biggest political landmines of his Presidential career today with his approval of over the counter status for the abortion-causing morning after pill Plan B.
A press release by Human Life International underscored the seriousness of the move as it was titled, "President Bush Files for Divorce with Catholic Base." Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, president of Human Life International commented, "President Bush's implied support for the abortion-causing drug Plan B is completely inconsistent with his recent veto of the embryonic stem cell research (ESCR) funding bill. What the president apparently fails to realize is that Plan B kills the same innocent unborn children that the ESCR process does."
At a White House press conference this morning, the President was asked by Bill Sammon a reporter from the Washington Examiner about Plan B and his new FDA commissioner who supports its over the counter status. "Mr. President, some pro-life groups are worried that your choice of FDA Commissioner will approve over the counter sales of Plan B, a pill that, they say, essentially can cause early-term abortions," said the reporter. "Do you stand by this choice, and how do you feel about Plan B in general?"
The President replied, "I believe that Plan B ought to be -- ought to require a prescription for minors, is what I believe. And I support Andy's decision."
Andy, as the President referred to him, is the new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach. Pro-life groups last week called for von Eschenbach's resignation over his deal with a drug company to make a high-dose of a drug (Plan B, a morning-after pill) available without a prescription to women 18 year of age and older.
Concerned Women for America (CWA) blasted the decision noting that it is ludicrous to allow Plan B without medical supervision when a low-dose of the same drug (birth control pills) requires medical oversight to protect women from serious health complications.
"It is deplorable that the head of the FDA would put his career ambitions and a drug company's interests above women's health," said Wendy Wright, CWA's President. "CWA provided legal and regulatory evidence that the FDA does not have the authority to do what it is proposing and medical evidence that any dose of the drug requires medical oversight to protect women's health. The drug is known to cause serious complications such as blood clots and stroke."
Rev. Euteneuer added, "The president must demonstrate a consistent respect for the sanctity of all human life or he risks provoking a great divorce with the conservative Catholics that compromise a large part of his support base. Human beings in the embryonic stage of development deserve equal protection under the law and the president's position falls far short of that mark."
You are correct in "that is a big if."
Most people who believe in "recreational sex" use some means of protection, both from pregnancy and STDs. What are the odds?
But it is that "if" that maybe things if they are just right they are worried about.
The argument can be made for the opposite. What if everything was just right and the egg was fertilized. This pill enduces murder.
"Get a grip on yourself"
????????????? whatever that means!
I happen to be pro life too but pro birth control. I just don't think of this as murder.
We pay the price for our actions, yes, we do.
There have been plenty of medical cases where a spermicide has killed a fertilized egg - after conception, but that isn't your argument.
Before conception: The "you guys" that I belong to believes that intercourse is a three-way bond between the man, woman and God. Intercourse should never be entertained by removing God from the equation. Allowing God into the bond, allows God to dictate whether a life will be created or not.
Birth control is an in-your-face slammed door to God; hence prohibiting a life that He may have intended from being born. We look upon that as the worst of sins. Denying life = murder.
I have no heartburn with people who do not hold these beliefs using birth control. We have a forgiving God. He said: "Forgive them for they know not what they do." It doesn't change the wrongness of the act.
It all depends upon where you draw the line and say, "NOW it's a human being." I draw that line where the Law of Biogeneis draws it: at conception.
Given that, I oppose the use of any drug or contraceptive method that could prevent the implantation of a viable embreyo.
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Commute time. It's been real.
Was the article you refer to about this drug or RU4-86?
Get a grip on yourself"
????????????? whatever that means
I was responding to your "oh brother!" post 125
Have a nice commute. Enjoyed the exchange.
You don't get that there's nothing more to this pill than The Pill, do you, and that contraception doesn't even happen so there's nothing to kill.
"What was he thinking?"
Actually it is pretty simple. It is all in the higher dose. Someone will take this pill (freedom to be dumb), have a stroke and die or become disabled, there will be a lawsuit following that will have this pill pulled for good.
LOL. I'm stunned. These same people must be opposed to The Pill. All I can say is, I'm delighted they aren't in charge.
So you're opposed to the Pill too. The birth control pill. Glad you aren't in charge. That's all I have to say.
What about "oh brother" intimates that I have lost my grip??
This has gotten silly.
True, I will never know either. Obviously. You ask if it makes it o.k. because she may not be aware of whether she prevented a fertilized egg from being implanted? Yes.
I used contraceptions when I was younger, that prevented fertilization too. Is that bad? No. Is it any of your business or anyone elses? No. Who will judge? God.
I agree with you too. And yes, facts would be helpful, but I've found that facts are usually ineffective arguments when one is arguing with brick walls. ;)
Don't try to confuse people with facts. LOL
OMG. Now I'm really glad you aren't in charge.
It's all emotional.
And I refer all further comments to your excellent post #127!!!
ridiculous!!!
I get that there's more to what this pill does than that. I laid it out in post 131...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687558/posts?page=131#131
...then poster garv pulled it right off of the manufacturer's website in post 132.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1687558/posts?page=132#132
It seems to me that I've got a good handle on the three different effects this drug can have; it's pretty straightforward. Yes, there's a "primary" way that Plan B works, but it also works in the other two ways. So, factually, it CAN prevent implantation of a fertilized egg and, as such, would have an abortive effect, destroying a perfectly viable human being. No risk of that happening is acceptable.
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