On August 24, 2006, the FDA made the morning-after pill available without a prescription to any adult (read: men, too) over 18.

In December 2003, on behalf of Concerned Women for America, I testified before an FDA committee against making the MAP available over-the-counter. My focus was on the danger to underage girls.

To celebrate the one-year anniversary, Christina Page at RH Reality Check wrote:

[H]ere's a retrospective of the arguments and forebodings the religious right made to influence the FDA's decision and mislead the public. Enjoy.

And wouldn't you know, one of my quotes made her list. I'm flattered. Here 'tis:

Making EC available would be a welcome tool for adult sexual predators who molest family members, children of friends or students. They could keep a stash in their bedroom drawer or their pocket to give their victims after committing each rape.

Amanda Marcotte, who achieved fame by being fired by the Edwards campaign for trashing Christians, copied it as well, adding her own half-cent:

The last one really betrays the anti-choice sense that women don't actually have agency, but are just braindead ciphers for male lust and men's progeny. After all, a rape victim would only take EC if forced by a rapist, wouldn’t you know?

Did Marcotte purposefully misconstrue that I was writing about adult women when clearly I was writing about minor girls - little girls, in fact - or can she not read?

I've noticed the other side takes our most logical statements and ridicules them, as if on a dare, and as if that will make them untrue.

Logical I was, but in addition I included three Planned Parenthood quotes and one Guttmacher quote to corroborate my point:

"The younger women are when they first have intercourse the more likely they are to have had unwanted or nonvoluntary first sex, 7 in 10 of those who had sex before age 13, for example." (Guttmacher)

"Teenage girls with older partners are more likely to become pregnant than those with partners closer in age." (PP)

"Teenagers who have been raped or abused also experience higher rates of pregnancy - in a sample of 500 teen mothers, two-thirds had histories of sexual and physical abuse, primarily by adult men averaging age 27." (PP)

"Among women younger than 18, the pregnancy rate among those with a partner who is six or more years older is 3.7 times as high as the rate among those whose partner is no more than two years older." (PP)

So Page and Marcotte may want to complain to their friends at PP if they think it illogical that adult male sexual predators would latch on to the morning-after pill as a new way to keep their trysts will little girls secret.

Their own research condemns them as those who excel at breaking hell loose.

Pro-aborts are trying to force all Iowan pharmacists to stock the morning after pill. Faye Waddington at RH (Reproductive Health) Reality Check said yesterday a study involving "phone surveys and mystery shopping" found:

Of the independently owned stores, there were 68 pharmacists who mistakenly believed emergency contraception would cause an abortion. Forty-six of the chain store pharmacists also held this mistaken belief.

Yet the maker of the morning-after pill, Plan B, website admits:

Plan B... prevents pregnancy mainly by stopping the release of an egg from the ovary, and may also prevent the fertilization of an egg (the uniting of sperm with the egg). Plan B may also work by preventing it from attaching to the uterus (womb).

So what exactly can the MAP cause? Are not feminist groups and the abortion industry intentionally misleading women?

[Photo above, courtesy of Family Policy Network, shows the fertilization process.]

NARAL used this article in an email alert yesterday to attempt to pressure Wal-Mart to always have a pharmacist on duty to dispense Plan B, the morning after pill.

While the FDA agreed last August, under pressure from libereal feminists, to make Plan B available without a prescription to any adult woman or man over 18, pharmacies still stock it behind the counter, like cigarettes, so as to check ID.

But since the MAP can abort a preborn baby in his or her first week of life, some pharmacists won't dispense it on moral grounds.

Here's where we've crippled ourselves, and the other side knows it. Birth conrol pills contain the same hormones as MAPs and can also abort in the first 5-9 days of life. Yet many pro-life organizations refuse to "go there," as do many pro-lifers. Here's how NARAL pounced on that point in its recommended sample email to Wal-Mart's CEO....

The vast majority of Americans, including those who oppose legal abortion, support birth control. Additionally, polling shows that 80 percent of Americans think it's wrong for pharmacists to refuse to fill women's prescriptions for birth control based on their personal views.

We can either lose this battle or pounce on it ourselves to educate women that birth control pills and MAPs may abort. The other side is certainly hiding this point. Here is how one liberal webside described how BCs can work:

Most birth control pills are "combination pills" containing a combination of the hormones estrogen and progesterone to prevent ovulation (the release of an egg during the monthly cycle). A woman cannot get pregnant if she doesn't ovulate because there is no egg to be fertilized. The Pill also works by thickening the mucus around the cervix, which makes it difficult for sperm to enter the uterus and reach any eggs that may have been released. The hormones in the Pill can also sometimes affect the lining of the uterus, making it difficult for an egg to attach to the wall of the uterus.

Can you decipher that BCs may cause abortions? Clearly the other side is dishonest on this point. Why should we enable them - and fail women - by remaining silent?

As a perennial Top Five PAC contributor to political campaigns, the Illinois State Medical Society is one of the most influential lobbying groups in the state.

ISMS's 2006 candidate questionnaire includes its position against pharmacists dispensing the morning after pill without a prescription. To read the question in its entirety, see page 2.

ISMS's position is welcome news to those wanting to maintain common-sense physician oversight of this megadose of hormone(s) that require a prescription for lesser doses.

Meanwhile, an internal confidential email made public through the court case Gonzalez v. Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles reveals that Barr Laboratories, makers of the Plan B morning after pill, cut a sweetheart deal in 2004 to give "Planned Parenthood special pricing at $4.50 and $4.25, respectively, for the next five years."

Those singing the praises of Planned Parenthood's family planning altruism should know that Planned Parenthood of Chicago charges $21 for the MAP, a 366% to 394% mark-up (charging an additional $40 for a nonrefundable "online assessment" if purchased over the Internet). Planned Parenthood of East Central IL charges $24, a 433% to 464% mark-up (with an additional $28 "nonrefundable charge for [the] on-line service").

With its cash windfall in mind, why would Planned Parenthood push for IL pharmacies to dispense MAPs without prescription? Simply, it wants a monopoly on lucrative MAPs.

Take a look at HB2535. According to it, pharmacists could only dispense MAPs if entering into a "collaborative agreement" with an "authorized prescriber." Guess who plans to be the "authorized prescriber"?

Nevertheless, according to Planned Parenthood's confidential memo, "Our immediate interest is to develop and protect our market base."

9. Under current law, pharmacists can only dispense prescription drugs that are accompanied by a prescription from a health care professional with prescribing authority. Pharmacists are driving to dispense certain drugs, such as emergency contraception, with a prescription. Moreover, pharmacists are pushing to provide therapeutic substitutions. Therapeutic substitution refers to pharmacists dispensing an alternate chemical entity from the same therapeutic class for the drug product prescribed by a physician (this is not substituting a generic, it is substituting a wholly different medication). ISMS believes such initiatives would allow pharmacists to become unsupervised prescribers and initiate care they are not licensed or trained to provide. Physicians are aware of drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, the patient's concurrent illnesses, and the risks of additive toxicity because of patients' other medical problems. Pharmacists do not have sufficient information to make these decisions.

Would you support of (sic) oppose allowing pharmacists to dispense medication without a prescription?

Regarding the blog post, ILLINOIZE: It's a Job, Not a Choice, Yellow Dog Democrat claims that even if pharmacists are protected by IL's conscience clause law, they would still be mandated to dispense morning after pills even if morally opposed because of this section of the law:

Nothing in this Act shall be construed so as to relieve a physician or other health care personnel from obligations under the law of providing emergency medical care.

Please.

If, as Alan Guttmacher (research arm of Planned Parenthood) states, a max of 1% of all abortions, then most requests for MAP will be for irresponsible sexual behavior.

All IL hospitals are mandated to provide information about MAPs to sexual assault victims as well as information where they can get MAPs, if not at the hospital itself.

Yellow Dog, note that even in the case of sexual assault, the state does not force IL hospitals to provide MAPs.

In other words, the state does not consider MAPs as treatment for medical emergencies, even in the case of rape and incest.

KSDK reported last night that Walgreens suspended four Illinois pharmacists without pay November 28 for refusing to dispense the morning after pill. Walgreens said it was forced to take this "drastic action" due to "a new law relating to this type of emergency contraceptive."

Not remarkably, the mainstream media obfuscated what really happened: Earlier this year, Gov. Rod Blagojevich, during a fit of legislative fiatitis, issued an executive order mandating that IL pharmacists dole out these sometimes abortion-causing pills whether or not they had moral or religious misgivings.

Those advocating abortion "choice" want it one way. They want mothers to have the "choice" to abort their babies but don't want health care providers to have the "choice" not to participate.

Aside from social politics, fiscal politics are also impacted here. The Associated Press reported recently on the national shortage of pharmacists. In a state already known for its chilly business climate, IL stands to repel not only pharmacists but small-town pharmacies by this law. Walgreens' action yesterday is merely a forecast of the fall-out.

For more information on the morning after pill, which is also untested and potentially dangerous, btw, read my recent WorldNetDaily.com column, "When Plan B is Plan A," as well as many other posts I've made on this topic.

Hat tip: Reader Angela V.