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The Federal Drug Administration (FDA) has released Emergency Contraception [EC, also called Plan B, and the morning after pill, MAP] to the public Over-The-Counter (OTC). 

This potent drug will be on the pharmacy shelf along with aspirin and cough drops. Anyone over age 18 -- and as of April 2009, anyone under 18 -- may buy EC, even sex predators.

Many physicians and individuals opposed releasing EC as an OTC drug for many valid medical reasons. 

Older men who sexually prey on younger girls would pressure them to use EC; this would place these girls in serious danger of STD infection.

Also, the long-term effect of such high-dosage estrogen on young females has not been studied.

Women who take lower dosage "birth control pills" need a prescription; higher dosage EC/MAP does not require a physical exam and girls/women will not have the protective support of physician oversight.

We were told that EC would cut the number of surgical abortions in half.

In European countries where EC is freely available, abortion numbers have increased.

Those who promised the lowered abortion numbers are now admitting abortion numbers will not be lowered.

 
Abortion Ban Ruling Ignores Evidence on Pain Babies Feel in Abortion (6/04) PDF Print E-mail

In ruling the ban on partial-birth abortions unconstitutional, U.S. District Court Judge Phyllis Hamilton said the fact that unborn children feel intense pain during the gruesome abortion procedure is "irrelevant."

"There is no consensus of medical opinion on the issue," Judge Hamilton wrote in her ruling. "However, it appears to be irrelevant to the question of whether [partial-birth abortion] should be banned." In fact, Hamilton said the issue of fetal pain is also not germane because unborn children may feel greater pain in other abortion procedures such as "disarticulation abortions" -- where the baby is dismembered. "Although Congress justified the ban in part on its finding that the partial-birth abortion method would cause excruciating pain to the partly born infant, Judge Hamilton dismissed this factor," the National Right to Life Committee said in a statement. Several doctors told Hamilton, a Clinton appointee, that the Congressional findings were accurate. Dr. Kanwaljeet Anand, a pain specialist, said that unborn children feel enormous pain during an abortion and show increased heart rate, blood flow, and hormone levels in response to pain. Hamilton ruled the ban on partial-birth abortion, which President Bush signed into law last fall, is unconstitutional. "The act poses an undue burden on a woman's right to choose an abortion," U.S. District Judge Phyllis Hamilton wrote in her decision. Scores of medical experts, and the AMA, have repeatedly noted that PBA, more accurately recognized as infanticide, is never necessary to preserve the life of the mother.[1June04, San Francisco; LifeNews.com, 2June04, http://www.lifenews.com/nat543.html]
 
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