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."
Don't forget his family and many of the blue bloods are big in Malthusian Population Control, his father wrote the Title X bill in 1969. Once many of the Catholic Mexicans come here and assimilate into our culture, they too, will be encouraged to "prevent" and "control" births. Do you really think that it's about picking crops and votes the republicans will never get?
Aspirin can cause bleeding which can damage the fetus as well; maybe we should ban that :-)
later -- I need to find a thread on which some sanity reigns. Thanks for being a voice of reason.
Come on... : ) <<< me
talkietalkiewithyalater.........
Do you take this position because you believe that life 'does not' begin at conception?
Because if you DO believe in the affirmative, that life 'does begin' at conception, then you place the 'right to individual freedom' over the 'right to life'.
There is a reason ouf founders placed them in the order of "...the right to LIFE, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness"
Care to identify those of us you think are Neanderthals? .... I guess you just can't help disparaging others...too bad...YOU go stand with Bush... doesn't bother me nearly as much as the fact that others don't see it that way seems to bother you....Have a wonderful evening Peaches.
Coleus,Why did he do this?I thought he was pro-life.
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I am speechless on this one. How does a pro-life born again Christian support this one? We need to pray for this President now more than ever.
Well, we know that he is pro-life. No doubt there. My guess is, and this isn't good either, that the issue was probably misconstrued. W has not voted against life. He has nominated pro-lifers to the court. The pro-aborts he has had in cabinet have by and large not been placed into positions where they could affect things. So, I think its a bad decision from a very human President. And, yes, we sure do need to pray for him.
Minors try to fake ID to get liquor, or try to get others to buy them liquor all the time.
What the hell,we voted him in as pro-life.This sucks.
I'm still waiting for a human life amendment and more congressional control of the courts. I guess we'll never see it.
"Do you people not read -- you can take three birth control pills at the same time and NOTHING happens. That's is what that is in one pill."
If this pill was simply 3 contraceptives in 1 and we would have had it years ago by making doses 3 times as powerful of what we already have.
The article stated that women who take this particular pill can have blood clots and strokes.
I know, for one, that his nominee, Dr. von Eschenbach, is a close friend of the wider Bush family.
As pointed out by many people on this thread, Plan B works in three ways, as admitted to on its on dedicated website. It prevents ovulation, when an egg is released from the ovary. It prevents fertilization, so an embryo isn't created in the first place. That is the "contraceptive" part. Finally, it works by preventing an embryo from implanting in the uterus, therefore causing a very early-term abortion.
If this is the position the president and his administration is taking, it is completely inconsistent with his veto of embryonic stem cell research. If he truly believes, as he said, that destroying embroys for research "manipulate[s] human life and violate[s] human dignity," then he should oppose the over-the-counter availability of Plan B, plain and simple.
Oh hon - you misunderstand. When I see freepers say that Bush has blood on his hands, I'm not bothered that those freepers don't agree with me. I'm delighted they don't agree with me.
And then when those same freepers think that nearly all birth control is either a sin or a sort of abortion, I realize that we have our share of mentally unstable freepers on this forum. More than I'd ever thought before, actually.
You do understand that this pill isn't the morning after pill and that with this pill, conception never does occur, don't you?
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