Friday, August 13, 2010
The day of abortions is nearly over
From the Associated Press and Yahoo! News earlier this evening:
FDA OKs new, five-day emergency contraceptive
By MATTHEW PERRONE, AP Business Writer
WASHINGTON – Federal health officials on Friday approved a new type of morning-after contraceptive that works longer than the current leading drug on the market.
The pill ella from HRA Pharma reduces the chance of pregnancy up to five days after sex.
The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug Friday as a prescription-only birth control option. The ruling clears the way for U.S. sales of the drug, which is already approved in Europe.
Back to me: This should be nothing but good news to all of us out here in the world who don't want to see or hear about abortions out there in the world, for whatever reason. Right? But you watch--all the Catholics and holier-than-thou chuckleheads who don't want to lose their single-issue problem they can rail about and against will declare that this, too, is an abortion and will want it banned, young women's lives be damned. Seriously, they need to get over it just like they need to get over stem cell research. Science and technology have made stem cells now available from common, everyday, living cells from you and I, walking around on terra firma. Science and technology has also made these "morning after" pills like RU486 and now this "Plan B" pill so women can take them after having had sex, take the pill and avoid the situation of needing or wanting an abortion. And no, please don't say I'm advocating young people having indiscriminate sex. It's just that they're young, their hormones are raging and it's going to happen so wouldn't it be better that they have some way of protecting themselves and a possible child from an abortion? Wouldn't it? Of course it would. But I'm sure these single-issue abortion people won't agree with us. (Slapping forehead in disbelief and frustration).
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100813/ap_on_bi_ge/us_birth_control_pill_fda
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Cynic that I am, I don't think this will do much to reduce abortions or unwanted pregnancies. We've got the morning after pill, can't see someone who won't take that but will take the 5 day version.
Not to say that this should be banned--The decision should be based purely on effectiveness and safety, not on moral grounds.
Cynic that I am, I agree--I don't this will do much to reduce abortions any time soon. It should but I don't think it will. It should--it should bring us closer to the day when there are no more abortions and the anti-abortion people should be all for it but what they want is young people to just not have sex and that is just patently not going to happen. Should that happen? (young people have less sex?). Sure, in a perfect world. But this is not that world.
I agree--it should be based on safety and effectiveness. The right thing should happen here with these pills. I hope these one-issue people will get out of the way and have the right thing happen so there really will be fewer abortions in the world. Stay tuned---and hopeful.
mr
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