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Pro-Abortion Lawsuit Wants FDA to Sell Morning After Pill OTC to Teens
Life News ^ | 10/12/06 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 10/12/2006 4:45:33 PM PDT by wagglebee

New York, NY (LifeNews.com) -- A pro-abortion law firm has filed a lawsuit against the Food and Drug Administration over its recent decision to allow over the counter sales of the morning after pill. The Center for Reproductive Rights filed a legal complaint in an attempt to force the agency to extend the sales to teenagers under the age of 18.

When the FDA entered into an agreement with Barr Laboratories, the maker of the Plan B drug, it prohibited anyone under 18 from purchasing the morning after pill without a prescription.

That hasn't gone over well with abortion advocates and CRR, representing several pro-abortion women, filed a complaint against the federal agency in a federal court in Brooklyn this week.

The complaint replaces a similar one the group had filed against the FDA previously over its previous postponements on whether or not it would allow over the counter sales.

The previous complaint featured a debate between the pro-abortion law firm and the White House over whether it had to submit documents of discussions between the Bush administration and the FDA about the legal status of the Plan B drug.

According to an Associated Press report, attorneys for the FDA appeared in the Brooklyn federal court Wednesday and asked a magistrate to stop CRR from getting access to any more government documents until a ruling is handed down about whether the new legal complaint can proceed.

Judge Viktor V. Pohorelsky did not rule on the request but hinted that he would likely side with CRR to allow its lawyers to continue getting government documents. He appeared to believe it was the only way to confirm the Bush administration's potential influence on the OTC approval process.

"It's not like they're fishing," Pohorelsky said of the pro-abortion attorneys.

But, Assistant U.S. Attorney F. Franklin Amanat said the CRR attorneys had not produced enough evidence to meet the typically high standards that must be met for the release of confidential presidential records.

"They have nothing but speculation, hearsay, innuendo and opinions," he said, according to the AP report.

The FDA has said that it made its decision on the over the counter sales on scientific grounds and that its decision should be upheld even if the Bush administration lobbied it.

A Utah doctor who was a member of a Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel says the morning after pill will not reduce the number of abortions and pregnancies that its supports claim it will do. He also indicated that the Plan B drug can work as an abortion agent in certain circumstances.

Dr. Joseph Stanford, associate professor of family and preventative medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, said the morning after pill won't be as effective as its maker claims.

He told the Deseret News that studies he and fellow researchers have done show a lower effectiveness rate than the 89 percent Barr Laboratories claims.

"We did more a precise meta-analysis that shows it's effective only 72 percent of the time, and even that number is optimistic," he indicated.

He also told the newspaper that studies from Europe, China and the United States show that the morning after pill does not reduce abortions. In fact, new abortion figures in England and Scotland show that abortions have reached their highest point ever despite over the counter sales of Plan B.

"In all cases, they found there was no effect on abortion rates and unintended pregnancy rates," he says.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; fda; morningafterpill; planb; prolife
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To: pray4liberty
So everybody who had sex outside of marriage and doesn't regret it is going to hell.

Who made you God?

You dirtybird.
41 posted on 10/12/2006 8:51:23 PM PDT by Blackirish
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To: RS
"I hope you are not seriously saying that governemntal restrictions of any kind equate in any way to moral absolutes. "

No. I'm not saying that.

"By definition a government that allows freedom would go out of its way to allow the most UN-restrictive practices amongst it's citizens."

True.

So, what are we arguing about, again?

42 posted on 10/12/2006 8:53:28 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Nu?)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

for tomorrow when i'm awake. g'nite


43 posted on 10/12/2006 9:00:42 PM PDT by Jaded ("I have a mustard- seed; and I am not afraid to use it."- Joseph Ratzinger)
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To: rbosque
"Who are you to put God on the witness stand? Can God change His mind for some divine purpose we cannot comprehend? Sure. ... "

LOL - Since God Knows everything that is, was, and will be, "changing his mind" would mean changing the future ...

Kind of negates the entire meaning of "moral absolutes" doesn't it ? .. When God could command Moses " thou shalt not kill" then later command Moses to kill all the male children ?

... and now we are suppose to ignore the one in the middle and fall back on the " not kill" command ?

Jesus said " do unto others" ... he didn't say "thou shalt not " ...

... and he surely did not say to keep your enemy from procreating.
44 posted on 10/12/2006 9:01:27 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Just wondering where the list of Moral Absolutes might be found ?

... I'm still waiting ...


45 posted on 10/12/2006 9:06:19 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: RS

You are ignoring my examples. The Bible clearly says that Lot, Moses, and Jonah bargained with God. If God has His mind made up, what would be the point of writing it in Scripture? Then there is no hope in prayer. The word "prayer" means to ask. What would be the purpose of prayer then? Jesus asks us to pray. So we pray. God makes the rules and we follow, that's the way it works. If God wanted to wipe out people, why not? He IS god. He is bound to the promises He makes to us and WE are under the covenant He made with us by His laws. He IS not.


46 posted on 10/12/2006 9:12:21 PM PDT by rbosque
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To: RS

you couldnt understand, it's the casting pearls to swine thing.


47 posted on 10/12/2006 9:17:51 PM PDT by Texas4ever (Anything off the dollar menu :))
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To: wagglebee
Pinged from Terri OCTOBER Dailies

8mm


48 posted on 10/13/2006 3:02:21 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: Texas4ever
you couldnt understand, it's the casting pearls to swine thing.

Great answer!

Someone once put it for me in very simple terms, he said, "if you wrestle with a pig, you will both get covered in pig sh*t, but you also need to realize THAT THE PIG LIKES IT!"

49 posted on 10/13/2006 4:29:04 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: wagglebee; Mrs. Don-o

True. But on the way we were graced with more of Mrs. Don-o's excellent posts.


50 posted on 10/13/2006 7:31:34 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham
But on the way we were graced with more of Mrs. Don-o's excellent posts.

I couldn't agree more!
Great Job Mrs. Don-o!!

51 posted on 10/13/2006 7:46:06 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: RS
Just wondering where the list of Moral Absolutes might be found ? ... I'm still waiting ...

Well, I gave you my answer and a little discussion, but that's evidently not what you're after. Are you looking perhaps for a more political answer?

You might want to ask the people who run the Moral Absolutes ping list, wagglebee and little jeremiah.

52 posted on 10/13/2006 9:25:49 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: RS; wagglebee; little jeremiah
One interesting angle on Moral Absolutes might be of interest to you: the paramount value of human life. In law, there is a concept called "legal necessity" which sets aside almost any other law, if the object is to preserve a life.

Here's a practical example. Say you are passing by a deserted stretch of seashore and you see somebody apparently thrashing about and in danger of drowning in the sea. You yourself are no very adequate swimmer. but you do see a rowboat with a coil of rope and a pair of oars in a nearby boathouse. You also see that the beach and the boathouse are clearly posted "Private Property: No Trespassing."

So what do you do? You go on the property, break into the boathouse, take the raft and launch it into the water, paddle rapidly over to the drowning person. The person is in a panic and struggling wildly, ao you throw a lasso around him and restrain his flailing arms, and then drag him into the boat and haul him back to the shore.

You've technically committed:
*trespassing,
*breaking and entering,
* burglary,
*assault and battery, and
*kidnapping (?)

but I doubt there's a policeman anywhere who would arrest you for it, a jury that would convict you, or a judge that would sentence you, due to the absolute value of human life.

It is not clear that doing all of the above would be obligatory. In other words, if you chose to do otherwise --- say you chose to run to a residential area half a mile from the drowning person, in hopes that you could find a phone and dial 9-1-1, knowing that it might be too late --- you would not have violated a moral absolute (though people might well think you were stupid.) The point here is only that other moral values can be set aside to uphold the one paramount value of life itself.

The uniqueness of this value can be seen even more clearly in the negative form: there is an absolute moral prohibition against directly and deliberately killing a non-aggressor, i.e., an innocent human life.

53 posted on 10/13/2006 11:05:14 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: RS; wagglebee; little jeremiah; Alexander Rubin
In Orthodox Judaism, only three of the commandments necessarily require "yehareg ve'al ya'avor," meaning 'One should let himself be killed rather than violate this commandment', and they are the commandments against killing the innocent, idol-worship, and prohibited intercourse.

Hmm. I remember years and years ago, when I was a teenager, having a discussion about whether you could tell a lie, for instance, to save hidden Jews from the Nazis (the answer was Yes) or if a starving man could steal food from a store (again, Yes.) So I asked my teacher ---a good man, educated way, way beyond his pay grade--- if there was any action you could never, ever do, even to save your own life or the life of others, and he answered without hesitation: Murder, Blasphemy, Sodomy.

54 posted on 10/13/2006 2:43:15 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Thanks for the ping. Very, very interesting.


55 posted on 10/13/2006 4:36:06 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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To: rbosque

"What would be the purpose of prayer then? Jesus asks us to pray. So we pray. "

Yep, and if you believe that God can see the future, he knew that you would and what you would want, and if you were going to get it ... all before the Earth was formed ...


56 posted on 10/13/2006 4:49:26 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: Texas4ever

LOL - your only post on this thread is an insult ?
... how Christian of you !


57 posted on 10/13/2006 4:54:04 PM PDT by RS ("I took the drugs because I liked them and I found excuses to take them, so I'm not weaseling.")
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To: Mrs. Don-o

Hrmmm...Although I'm of the conservative denomination, I think I recall learning the same thing back in congregational school.

It's fascinating, really, but it gets to the heart of the Judeo-Christian ethic.

Love and protect life, value purity and love the Lord our G-d, who is one.


58 posted on 10/13/2006 5:55:58 PM PDT by Alexander Rubin (Octavius - You make my heart glad building thus, as if Rome is to be eternal.)
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To: Blackirish

I'm not God, nor did I presume to be in my post. I just posted the rules, I don't make them.


59 posted on 10/13/2006 7:36:42 PM PDT by pray4liberty (School District horrors: http://totallyunjust.tripod.com)
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To: pray4liberty
I just posted the rules, I don't make them.

*************

Any rules at all are an affront to some.

60 posted on 10/14/2006 6:37:36 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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