I don't have to tell you that the Religious Right are bad news....
but I was struck dumb when I was reading this article in the NYtimes about the crusade against contraception.
I'll have to admit, for most of the article, the outrageous proposals being propogated by people who think that having sex will lead to you going to some place called "Hell" were pretty run of the mill: annoying to read, scary to think that they might be implemented; but nothing I hadn't seen before. Then, my dumbstruck moment came when I read this:
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Meanwhile a government report later found that Dr. Janet Woodcock, deputy commissioner for operations at the F.D.A., had also expressed a fear that making the drug available over the counter could lead to "extreme promiscuous behaviors such as the medication taking on an 'urban legend' status that would lead adolescents to form sex-based cults centered around the use of Plan B."
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Yes, you read that correctly. They're worried about teen sex-cults. That's why they're keeping a medication off of the market that would actually reduce the number of abortions in this country. (Ya know, something they say they've been worried about the whole time...)
Meanwhile, from my home state of Illinois, we have this joker in the house...
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Ron Stephens is both a pharmacist and a Republican state legislator in Illinois, one of the states that are currently battlegrounds between pharmacists who claim the right to refuse to fill prescriptions for emergency contraceptives and women's and civil rights groups that argue that pharmacists must fill all prescriptions presented to them. Stephens not only supports the pharmacists' right of refusal but he also refuses to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception himself. He does, however, fill prescriptions for the birth control pill. When I asked him recently to explain his thinking on the two drugs, he said: "It's the difference between stopping a pregnancy from happening and ending a pregnancy. My understanding of the science is that the morning-after pill can end a pregnancy, whereas birth control pills will make a woman's body believe she is already pregnant so that the egg will not be fertilized." And what if studies show that, in fact, both drugs can prevent implantation? "Everyone has their natural prejudice," Stephens replied. "I'm going to understand it my way, and the issue is that you should not be forced to do something you believe is immoral."
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So, a pharmacist is arguing that his 'natural prejudice' is a reasonable basis for withholding a medecine prescribed by a doctor for a patient?
Absurd.
What murderous idiots these are, that run the country.
I'll have to admit, for most of the article, the outrageous proposals being propogated by people who think that having sex will lead to you going to some place called "Hell" were pretty run of the mill: annoying to read, scary to think that they might be implemented; but nothing I hadn't seen before. Then, my dumbstruck moment came when I read this:
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Meanwhile a government report later found that Dr. Janet Woodcock, deputy commissioner for operations at the F.D.A., had also expressed a fear that making the drug available over the counter could lead to "extreme promiscuous behaviors such as the medication taking on an 'urban legend' status that would lead adolescents to form sex-based cults centered around the use of Plan B."
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Yes, you read that correctly. They're worried about teen sex-cults. That's why they're keeping a medication off of the market that would actually reduce the number of abortions in this country. (Ya know, something they say they've been worried about the whole time...)
Meanwhile, from my home state of Illinois, we have this joker in the house...
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Ron Stephens is both a pharmacist and a Republican state legislator in Illinois, one of the states that are currently battlegrounds between pharmacists who claim the right to refuse to fill prescriptions for emergency contraceptives and women's and civil rights groups that argue that pharmacists must fill all prescriptions presented to them. Stephens not only supports the pharmacists' right of refusal but he also refuses to fill prescriptions for emergency contraception himself. He does, however, fill prescriptions for the birth control pill. When I asked him recently to explain his thinking on the two drugs, he said: "It's the difference between stopping a pregnancy from happening and ending a pregnancy. My understanding of the science is that the morning-after pill can end a pregnancy, whereas birth control pills will make a woman's body believe she is already pregnant so that the egg will not be fertilized." And what if studies show that, in fact, both drugs can prevent implantation? "Everyone has their natural prejudice," Stephens replied. "I'm going to understand it my way, and the issue is that you should not be forced to do something you believe is immoral."
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So, a pharmacist is arguing that his 'natural prejudice' is a reasonable basis for withholding a medecine prescribed by a doctor for a patient?
Absurd.
What murderous idiots these are, that run the country.
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