Plan B: Where liberals and Big Pharma make strange bedfellows
[W]hat makes my liberal friends believe a child at 11 years old, or even 16, wouldn’t use the convenience of condom-aisle Plan B as an excuse to use it instead of condoms, or to skip the hassle of seeing a doctor to get birth control pills, even though the drug is explicitly not supposed to be used as routine contraception?
What’s to stop teenage boys from pushing their… girlfriends to forget condoms, since Plan B can take care of everything afterward?
Why wouldn’t sexual abusers of young girls use Plan B to cover up the horror of ongoing abuse, by pushing their victims to buy it, without fear that they’ll tell a doctor, or a parent, since they won’t need to consult either to get it?
And if a teenager suffered a dangerous reaction to Plan B — the side effects listed on the manufacturer’s website include severe allergic reactions and breathing difficulties — who would they alert? The parent or doctor they didn’t tell they were taking the drug in the first place?…
It was the drug manufacturer, Teva Pharmaceuticals, not women’s health groups or clinicians that applied for permission to sell Plan B to children.
… [S]ince when do liberals side with drug companies against the government when it comes to protecting the vulnerable?
~ Joy-Ann Reid, Miami Herald, December 14
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
All the warning signs about Plan B were there from the get-go, whether its chemicals were unhealthful or how it coulod be misued as an over the counter medication. There just seems to be a complicit understanding between radical feminists and Big Pharma that the SEX MUST CONTINUE NO MATTER WHAT. Any restrictions on sex will be spun as controlling, puritanical, and out of touch, when, if you read this author, is absolutely the reverse.
Plan B is Plan BAD.
Courtnay says:
December 15, 2011 at 9:16 am
All the warning signs about Plan B were there from the get-go, whether its chemicals were unhealthful or how it coulod be misued as an over the counter medication. There just seems to be a complicit understanding between radical feminists and Big Pharma that the SEX MUST CONTINUE NO MATTER WHAT.
(Denise) Actually, the continuing demand for Plan B and abortions shows the INEFFECTUALITY of radical feminism. Radical feminists tend to view sexual intercourse very negatively. Andrea Dworkin: “A woman’s body in sexual intercourse is literally occupied and occupied literally.” Catherine MacKinnon speaks of it as “a horrible searing pain.” If the radical feminists were effective, vast numbers of females would adopt celibacy. But they don’t. Thus, radical feminism is a lot of powerless squeaking.