As the teacher's union and myriad other liberal organizations mount a campaign to recall conservative school board members of the Jeffco Public Schools of Jefferson County in Golden, Colorado (the state's second-largest district), Planned Parenthood sees this as a golden opportunity to increase revenue and therefore has launched a campaign telling voters to dump abstinence-based sex education in favor of their $125 per student sex kits.
For background, read Planned Parenthood's Sexual Assault on Kids: Business Model is Hooking them on Sex and also read how Planned Parenthood teams up with schools by providing "kinky sex trainers" for kids.
Click headlines below to read previous articles:
Sex Worker Abortionists Teach Sex Ed in California School
San Francisco Area Parents Want Planned Parenthood Out of Their School
Abortionist in Massachusetts School Opposed by Parents
Oregon Parents Want Obama-paid Abortionist out of School
Abortionists' Sex Ed Banned from Louisiana Schools
Also read Planned Parenthood Reports its Abortions & Profits Increased Last Year
-- From "School Board Recall Vote in Colorado Tests Conservative Policies" by Jack Healy, New York Times 10/28/15
The question facing voters is whether to oust a polarizing school board that has championed charter schools, performance-based teacher pay and other education measures supported by conservatives. Supporters of the recall have raised more than $250,000, about $15,000 of that from the local teachers’ union. . . .
Voters here are almost evenly divided among Democrats, Republicans and independents. In November 2013, voters broke with union-supported candidates to elect a slate of school board hopefuls running as conservative reformers.
All five seats on the board are up for election: the three conservatives facing a recall and two seats being vacated by more liberal members.
“I can take it,” said Julie Williams, one of the three conservatives, who said she had received harassing emails. “For my kids, it’s been pretty hard. I come from a strong family. We believe in standing on principle, even with malicious attacks on me personally.”
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Death threats, big money become part of Jeffco school board recall" by Yesenia Robles, The Denver Post 10/29/15
Campaign finance reports released this week show more than $450,000 has been raised by candidates and committees involved in the recall. But other organizations that act indirectly — including Americans for Prosperity, which supports the current board — do not have to file their spending. There are estimates that as much as $1 million already may have been spent on the recall.
The three union-backed candidates to replace the board members facing a recall have reported more than $144,900 in campaign contributions.
Committees supporting and opposing the recall have reported a total of about $181,000. . . .
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Is Planned Parenthood Targeting Schoolchildren?" by Jennifer Kerns, The Daily Signal 10/28/15
Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado, a non-profit 501(c)4 organization, has sent letters to voters asking them to become involved in the school board recalls by first signing the petition to recall their elected officials, then volunteering for the effort to oust their local school board members.
. . . the Planned Parenthood group boasts of advancing “Colorado youths’ rights to real sex education and reproductive health care.” The group still opposes the state’s Parental Notification Act passed by the legislature in 2003 that requires parents of school-aged children under the age of 18 must be notified within 48 hours prior to abortion.
. . . Planned Parenthood is selling sex kits to local schools—including schools in the county in question—which Planned Parenthood’s own national website calls “Birth Control Training Kits.”
According to Planned Parenthood’s website, each of the kits contains 10 male condoms, two “female condoms,” one intrauterine contraceptive, one package of oral contraceptives, one “dental dam,” two samples of “water-based lubricants,” “cycle beads” for natural family planning purposes, one “Today” contraceptive sponge, one “syringe” containing a Depo Provera shot, and two vaginal contraceptive spermicidal films.
At least one local official in Jefferson County familiar with the kit reports that it includes a faux “Plan B” pill to familiarize school-aged students with “the morning after” pill.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Vote in the Election on November 3rd For Real Sex Ed!" posted at Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado 10/15/15
For decades, abstinence-only extremists have targeted Colorado schools and students. The goal of these programs is to shame and scare youth out of sexual activity and they have proven ineffective in reducing unintended pregnancy rates.
As one of the leading reproductive health advocacy organizations in the state, Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado (PPVC) works to advocate for and protect young people’s access to age-appropriate, complete and real sex education in Colorado schools. PPVC was part of a coalition of advocates who worked with the Colorado General Assembly in 2013 to put guidelines in place for public schools who provide sex education. These guidelines require that schools that provide sex education do so in a way that is “medically accurate, age-appropriate, evidence-based, culturally-sensitive and inclusive of positive youth development.”
To help voters in choosing school board candidates, PPVC invited and collected surveys from candidates on a variety of questions concerning reproductive health and education. As a result of the survey, PPVC is issuing this list of Colorado school board candidates who are identified as “supporters” of comprehensive sex education and young people’s access to reproductive health care.
2015 Planned Parenthood Votes Colorado's School Board Candidate Supporters of Reproductive Health and Education:
Susan Harmon - Jefferson County School Board District 2
Ron Mitchell – Jefferson County School Board District 5
The survey includes questions about implementation of age-appropriate, medically accurate, evidence-based sex education, teaching consent and sexual assault awareness and prevention, and support of curriculum that makes LGBTQ [homosexual, bisexual, transgender, etc.] youth feel included in sex education curricula and anti-bullying and harassment strategies. The survey also asks if the candidates support minors’ access to confidential reproductive healthcare services, and that such services should be available at school-based health centers. These services and protections are vital to ensure youth have access to the reproductive health care they need.
To read about the sexualization/abortion campaign above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Planned Parenthood Caught Selling Aborted Babies on Video
And read Planned Parenthood TWICE Abets a Rapist, Again
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Friday, October 30, 2015
Sunday, July 26, 2015
9th Court Forces Christians into Abortion Business
This week's ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, overturning the 2012 ruling of U.S. District Court Judge Ronald B. Leighton, reinstates a 2007 Washington state requirement forcing all Christian pharmacists to sell the morning-after pill (Plan B), thus violating their religious liberty.
Click headlines below to read previous articles:
Illinois Pro-life Pharmacists Win Against Plan B
Unlimited Plan B Abortion Pill in Stores for Kids
'Invisible' Abortions Soar Among Teens — Plan B
Over-the-Counter Abortion Paid by ObamaCare: Study
UPDATE 8/22/15: Persecuted Christians Testify at Iowa Rally Hosted by Sen. Ted Cruz
-- From "Pharmacy owners cannot cite religion to deny medicine - U.S. appeals court" by Dan Levine, Reuters 7/23/15
The state of Washington can require a pharmacy to deliver medicine even if the pharmacy's owner has a religious objection, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, the latest in a series of judgements on whether religious believers can opt out of providing services.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year allowed closely held corporations to seek exemptions from the Obamacare health law's contraception requirement.
A unanimous three-judge 9th Circuit panel on Thursday decided that the rules are constitutional because they rationally further the state's interest in patient safety. Speed is particularly important considering the time-sensitive nature of emergency contraception, the court said.
"The time taken to travel to another pharmacy, especially in rural areas where pharmacies are sparse, may reduce the efficacy of those drugs," wrote Judge Susan Graber.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Ruling: Washington can require pharmacies to dispense Plan B" by Gene Johnson, The Associated Press 7/24/15
A Ralph’s Thriftway pharmacy in Olympia and two pharmacists sued, saying the rules required them to violate their religious beliefs, because the drugs can prevent implantation of a fertilized egg, which they consider tantamount to abortion. They argued that they should be allowed to refer patients to a nearby drug store rather than fulfill the prescription themselves.
But the appeals judges — Susan P. Graber, Richard R. Clifton Mary H. Murguia — said that wasn’t good enough.
In his initial ruling, Leighton said the rules infringed on the pharmacists’ religious freedom and issued an order blocking them, but in 2009 the appeals court reversed that decision. After holding an 11-day trial, Leighton in 2012 basically reaffirmed his original reasoning.
But the appeals court found that the rules were neutral, rather than targeted at suppressing the religious objections of the pharmacists.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "WA Pharms Must Stock Morning-After Pill" by June Williams, Courthouse News Service 7/24/15
Stormans Inc., owners of Ralph's Thriftway in Olympia, and two individual pharmacists sued the state in 2007 over new Board of Pharmacy regulations that require pharmacies to stock and dispense the emergency contraceptive Plan B.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton initially barred enforcement of the new stocking rules, but the Ninth Circuit overturned the injunction in 2009 after finding that the lower court had abused its discretion and "incorrectly applied a heightened level of scrutiny to a neutral law of general applicability."
Although the injunction was lifted, Washington state put off enforcing new rules pending trial. Leighton concluded after a 2012 bench trial that the stocking and dispensing laws were unconstitutional.
[This week, the Ninth Circuit] panel rejected the pharmacists' argument that they should be allowed to refer patients to other drug stores because of their religious objections to dispensing emergency contraceptives.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Washington Pharmacists Must Stock Plan B Despite Religious Beliefs" by Ruby de Luna, KUOW-FM94.9 (Seattle, WA) 7/24/15
“We’re disappointed with the ruling,” says Kristen Waggoner senior legal counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom, the group representing the pharmacy owner and two pharmacists. Waggoner says the ruling has broader implications; it would affect the state’s health care system.
“One third of the state’s hospital beds are affiliated with religious entities and in this case, the Catholic hospitals have said they will not sell these drugs in their outpatient pharmacies,” Waggoner says.
“We have to take a look at if the state truly intends to enforce these regulations in an evenhanded manner, it will have significant implications to healthcare throughout the state.”
Those three pharmacists will not have to comply with the federal appeals court decision, because that ruling doesn’t end the matter. Waggoner says she and her clients are considering their options for appeal.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Appeals court rules pharmacists must make Plan B, other contraceptives available in Washington" by Jim Camden, The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) 7/24/15
Washington pharmacists who have religious objections to abortion or birth control can be sanctioned by the state if they send customers to another store for emergency contraception, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. . . . A pharmacist with a religious objection to the drug can refuse to fill a prescription only if another pharmacist at the store is available who will, the state had said.
The owners of Ralph’s Thriftway, a supermarket and pharmacy in Olympia which sued the state over the regulation, plan to appeal. Kevin Stormans, president of Stormans Inc., said in a news release that the state allows pharmacies to make referrals for other reasons and 33 stores stock the drug within 5 miles of the store.
“All we are asking is to be able to live out the beliefs that we hold, as Americans have always been able to do, and to be able to refer patients for religious reasons, as the medical and pharmaceutical associations overwhelmingly recommend,” he said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Court Says Washington State Pharmacy Must Provide Emergency Contraceptives Despite Religious Objection" by Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter 7/24/15
In 2007, the Washington Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission unanimously adopted two administrative rules, the "Pharmacist Responsibility Rule" and the "Delivery Rule."
The "Responsibility Rule" stated that a pharmacy could not refuse to provide "lawful prescriptions", but did provide a religious exemption for pharmacies and pharmacists.
By contrast the "Delivery Rule" lacks any exemption for religious or moral objections to providing "lawful prescriptions," like emergency contraceptives.
In February 2012 Leighton ruled in favor of Ralph's and the two pharmacists, arguing that the Commission's rules were "in practice unconstitutional."
"The Board of Pharmacy's 2007 rules are not neutral, and they are not generally applicable. They were designed instead to force religious objectors to dispense Plan B, and they sought to do so despite the fact that refusals to deliver for all sorts of secular reasons were permitted," wrote Leighton.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "No Pharmacy Owner Can Refuse Morning-After Pill in Washington, Court Rules" by Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor 7/25/15
[. . . The 9th Circuit] court held that the state law is "neutral" and "generally applicable" and therefore citizens must obey it irrespective of their religious beliefs.
The court said this week that Stormans failed to establish their belief that the contraceptive pills can induce abortions, and that their religious freedom is a "fundamental right" in this case.
"On balance, however, we are unconvinced that the right to own, operate, or work at a licensed professional business free from regulations requiring the business to engage in activities that one sincerely believes leads to the taking of human life is 'so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental,'" the court said, referring to Snyder v. Massachusetts.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Federal Judge Blocks ObamaCare Assault on Christians
And read California Forces Catholics to Fund Abortion Insurance
“The government has no business punishing citizens solely because of their religious beliefs. The pharmacists in this case willingly refer patients to over 30 pharmacies that stock the morning-after pill within a 5 mile radius, and no patient has ever been denied timely access to any drug.”For background, read how Judge Leighton ruled the regulations to be anti-Christian.
-- Luke Goodrich, deputy general counsel of the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty
Click headlines below to read previous articles:
Illinois Pro-life Pharmacists Win Against Plan B
Unlimited Plan B Abortion Pill in Stores for Kids
'Invisible' Abortions Soar Among Teens — Plan B
Over-the-Counter Abortion Paid by ObamaCare: Study
UPDATE 8/22/15: Persecuted Christians Testify at Iowa Rally Hosted by Sen. Ted Cruz
-- From "Pharmacy owners cannot cite religion to deny medicine - U.S. appeals court" by Dan Levine, Reuters 7/23/15
The state of Washington can require a pharmacy to deliver medicine even if the pharmacy's owner has a religious objection, a federal appeals court ruled on Thursday, the latest in a series of judgements on whether religious believers can opt out of providing services.
The U.S. Supreme Court last year allowed closely held corporations to seek exemptions from the Obamacare health law's contraception requirement.
A unanimous three-judge 9th Circuit panel on Thursday decided that the rules are constitutional because they rationally further the state's interest in patient safety. Speed is particularly important considering the time-sensitive nature of emergency contraception, the court said.
"The time taken to travel to another pharmacy, especially in rural areas where pharmacies are sparse, may reduce the efficacy of those drugs," wrote Judge Susan Graber.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Ruling: Washington can require pharmacies to dispense Plan B" by Gene Johnson, The Associated Press 7/24/15
A Ralph’s Thriftway pharmacy in Olympia and two pharmacists sued, saying the rules required them to violate their religious beliefs, because the drugs can prevent implantation of a fertilized egg, which they consider tantamount to abortion. They argued that they should be allowed to refer patients to a nearby drug store rather than fulfill the prescription themselves.
But the appeals judges — Susan P. Graber, Richard R. Clifton Mary H. Murguia — said that wasn’t good enough.
In his initial ruling, Leighton said the rules infringed on the pharmacists’ religious freedom and issued an order blocking them, but in 2009 the appeals court reversed that decision. After holding an 11-day trial, Leighton in 2012 basically reaffirmed his original reasoning.
But the appeals court found that the rules were neutral, rather than targeted at suppressing the religious objections of the pharmacists.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "WA Pharms Must Stock Morning-After Pill" by June Williams, Courthouse News Service 7/24/15
Stormans Inc., owners of Ralph's Thriftway in Olympia, and two individual pharmacists sued the state in 2007 over new Board of Pharmacy regulations that require pharmacies to stock and dispense the emergency contraceptive Plan B.
U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton initially barred enforcement of the new stocking rules, but the Ninth Circuit overturned the injunction in 2009 after finding that the lower court had abused its discretion and "incorrectly applied a heightened level of scrutiny to a neutral law of general applicability."
Although the injunction was lifted, Washington state put off enforcing new rules pending trial. Leighton concluded after a 2012 bench trial that the stocking and dispensing laws were unconstitutional.
[This week, the Ninth Circuit] panel rejected the pharmacists' argument that they should be allowed to refer patients to other drug stores because of their religious objections to dispensing emergency contraceptives.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Washington Pharmacists Must Stock Plan B Despite Religious Beliefs" by Ruby de Luna, KUOW-FM94.9 (Seattle, WA) 7/24/15
“We’re disappointed with the ruling,” says Kristen Waggoner senior legal counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom, the group representing the pharmacy owner and two pharmacists. Waggoner says the ruling has broader implications; it would affect the state’s health care system.
“One third of the state’s hospital beds are affiliated with religious entities and in this case, the Catholic hospitals have said they will not sell these drugs in their outpatient pharmacies,” Waggoner says.
“We have to take a look at if the state truly intends to enforce these regulations in an evenhanded manner, it will have significant implications to healthcare throughout the state.”
Those three pharmacists will not have to comply with the federal appeals court decision, because that ruling doesn’t end the matter. Waggoner says she and her clients are considering their options for appeal.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Appeals court rules pharmacists must make Plan B, other contraceptives available in Washington" by Jim Camden, The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA) 7/24/15
Washington pharmacists who have religious objections to abortion or birth control can be sanctioned by the state if they send customers to another store for emergency contraception, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. . . . A pharmacist with a religious objection to the drug can refuse to fill a prescription only if another pharmacist at the store is available who will, the state had said.
The owners of Ralph’s Thriftway, a supermarket and pharmacy in Olympia which sued the state over the regulation, plan to appeal. Kevin Stormans, president of Stormans Inc., said in a news release that the state allows pharmacies to make referrals for other reasons and 33 stores stock the drug within 5 miles of the store.
“All we are asking is to be able to live out the beliefs that we hold, as Americans have always been able to do, and to be able to refer patients for religious reasons, as the medical and pharmaceutical associations overwhelmingly recommend,” he said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Court Says Washington State Pharmacy Must Provide Emergency Contraceptives Despite Religious Objection" by Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter 7/24/15
In 2007, the Washington Pharmacy Quality Assurance Commission unanimously adopted two administrative rules, the "Pharmacist Responsibility Rule" and the "Delivery Rule."
The "Responsibility Rule" stated that a pharmacy could not refuse to provide "lawful prescriptions", but did provide a religious exemption for pharmacies and pharmacists.
By contrast the "Delivery Rule" lacks any exemption for religious or moral objections to providing "lawful prescriptions," like emergency contraceptives.
In February 2012 Leighton ruled in favor of Ralph's and the two pharmacists, arguing that the Commission's rules were "in practice unconstitutional."
"The Board of Pharmacy's 2007 rules are not neutral, and they are not generally applicable. They were designed instead to force religious objectors to dispense Plan B, and they sought to do so despite the fact that refusals to deliver for all sorts of secular reasons were permitted," wrote Leighton.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "No Pharmacy Owner Can Refuse Morning-After Pill in Washington, Court Rules" by Anugrah Kumar, Christian Post Contributor 7/25/15
[. . . The 9th Circuit] court held that the state law is "neutral" and "generally applicable" and therefore citizens must obey it irrespective of their religious beliefs.
The court said this week that Stormans failed to establish their belief that the contraceptive pills can induce abortions, and that their religious freedom is a "fundamental right" in this case.
"On balance, however, we are unconvinced that the right to own, operate, or work at a licensed professional business free from regulations requiring the business to engage in activities that one sincerely believes leads to the taking of human life is 'so rooted in the traditions and conscience of our people as to be ranked as fundamental,'" the court said, referring to Snyder v. Massachusetts.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Federal Judge Blocks ObamaCare Assault on Christians
And read California Forces Catholics to Fund Abortion Insurance
Wednesday, July 22, 2015
'Invisible' Abortions Soar Among Teens — Plan B
Today, the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that use of the "morning-after pill" (Plan B) to counteract pregnancy has increased rapidly among teens since being sold in stores over the counter like candy. The warning label on this drug indicates that pregnancy may be precluded by preventing implantation of a fertilized egg, thus causing an abortion that is typically invisible to the mother.
For background, click headlines below to read previous articles:
Unlimited Plan B Abortion Pills Now in Stores for Kids
Morning-After Pill is Becoming the 'Contraceptive' Choice
U.S. Teenage Birth Rate Lowest on Record
Over-the-Counter Abortion Paid by ObamaCare (study shows Plan B is abortifacient)
President Obama's CDC Wants More Worry-free Sex for Teen Girls but admit Government Failure: Carefree Sex is NOT Possible
Also read Pre-teens' Sex Lives Tracked by Feds via Schools
And read how various government entities are being injected into the teenage uterus.
-- From "Report: Teen use of morning-after pill climbing" by The Associated Press 7/22/15
More than 1 in 5 sexually active teen girls have used the morning-after pill — a dramatic increase that likely reflects that it's easier now for teens to buy the emergency contraceptive.
A report released Wednesday shows teen use of the morning-after pill rose steadily from a decade earlier, when it was 1 in 12. Now, all teens can buy it without a prescription.
The morning-after pill contains a higher dose of the female hormone progestin than is in regular birth control pills. It can cut the chances of pregnancy by nearly 90% if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. Starting in 2006, teens 18 and older could buy it over the counter; age limits were lifted two years ago. It typically costs $35 to $50.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Report: More teen girls turning to morning-after pill" by Amy R. Connolly, UPI 7/22/15
The findings, released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show about 8 percent of teens turned to the morning-after pill in 2002. That number increased to nearly 14 percent from 2006 to 2010 and spiked again to 22 percent from 2011 to 2013.
The report also states that the number of teens having sex, ages 15 to 19, has dropped by 14 percent for girls and 22 percent for boys in the past 25 years.
By age 15, nearly 18 percent of boys had sex and 13 percent of girls had sex. By age 17, 44 percent of boys and 43 percent of girls had sex. By age 19, 69 percent of males had sex and 68 percent of females did the same.
The report also found that in the early teen years (ages 15-16), males were more likely than females to have sex but by the age of 17, "the probabilities of having sexual intercourse were similar for males and females."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "More Teens Use 'Morning-After Pill,' Study Finds" by Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer, Live Science 7/22/15
In 2013, the Food and Drug Administration approved Plan B as a nonprescription drug for women who have the potential to bear children. This ruling meant that teenagers could purchase Plan B over the counter, without a prescription. Before this ruling, women under age 17 needed a prescription to buy Plan B.
Dr. Metee Comkornruecha, an adolescent medicine specialist at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami, who was not involved in the study, said the increase in emergency contraception use among sexually active teens was likely due mainly to an increase in awareness and education about this form of contraception.
". . . that probably means that they're either using condoms inconsistently," or if condoms are breaking, they are not using more reliable forms of contraception like the birth control pill, Comkornruecha said.
The rise in emergency contraception is likely contributing to the decline in teen births, although it's not clear how much it is contributing, Comkornruecha said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Use of morning-after pill soars among teens" by Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Examiner 7/22/15
. . . what has changed over the last two decades — and is likely contributing to the falling teen pregnancy rate — is that fewer teens are having sex in the first place. From 2011 to 2013, 44 percent of female teens and 47 percent of male teens had sex at least once.
Those rates ticked up slightly from the 2006 to 2010 period, but it's still well below rates of teen sexual activity in 1988, when 51 percent of females and 60 percent of males had engaged in intercourse.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Abstinence Education Yields Lowest Teen Birth Rate Ever as well as Abstinent Teens the Norm, Moral Sex-Ed Works: Study
For background, click headlines below to read previous articles:
Unlimited Plan B Abortion Pills Now in Stores for Kids
Morning-After Pill is Becoming the 'Contraceptive' Choice
U.S. Teenage Birth Rate Lowest on Record
Over-the-Counter Abortion Paid by ObamaCare (study shows Plan B is abortifacient)
President Obama's CDC Wants More Worry-free Sex for Teen Girls but admit Government Failure: Carefree Sex is NOT Possible
Also read Pre-teens' Sex Lives Tracked by Feds via Schools
And read how various government entities are being injected into the teenage uterus.
-- From "Report: Teen use of morning-after pill climbing" by The Associated Press 7/22/15
More than 1 in 5 sexually active teen girls have used the morning-after pill — a dramatic increase that likely reflects that it's easier now for teens to buy the emergency contraceptive.
A report released Wednesday shows teen use of the morning-after pill rose steadily from a decade earlier, when it was 1 in 12. Now, all teens can buy it without a prescription.
The morning-after pill contains a higher dose of the female hormone progestin than is in regular birth control pills. It can cut the chances of pregnancy by nearly 90% if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex. Starting in 2006, teens 18 and older could buy it over the counter; age limits were lifted two years ago. It typically costs $35 to $50.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Report: More teen girls turning to morning-after pill" by Amy R. Connolly, UPI 7/22/15
The findings, released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, show about 8 percent of teens turned to the morning-after pill in 2002. That number increased to nearly 14 percent from 2006 to 2010 and spiked again to 22 percent from 2011 to 2013.
The report also states that the number of teens having sex, ages 15 to 19, has dropped by 14 percent for girls and 22 percent for boys in the past 25 years.
By age 15, nearly 18 percent of boys had sex and 13 percent of girls had sex. By age 17, 44 percent of boys and 43 percent of girls had sex. By age 19, 69 percent of males had sex and 68 percent of females did the same.
The report also found that in the early teen years (ages 15-16), males were more likely than females to have sex but by the age of 17, "the probabilities of having sexual intercourse were similar for males and females."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "More Teens Use 'Morning-After Pill,' Study Finds" by Rachael Rettner, Senior Writer, Live Science 7/22/15
In 2013, the Food and Drug Administration approved Plan B as a nonprescription drug for women who have the potential to bear children. This ruling meant that teenagers could purchase Plan B over the counter, without a prescription. Before this ruling, women under age 17 needed a prescription to buy Plan B.
Dr. Metee Comkornruecha, an adolescent medicine specialist at Nicklaus Children's Hospital in Miami, who was not involved in the study, said the increase in emergency contraception use among sexually active teens was likely due mainly to an increase in awareness and education about this form of contraception.
". . . that probably means that they're either using condoms inconsistently," or if condoms are breaking, they are not using more reliable forms of contraception like the birth control pill, Comkornruecha said.
The rise in emergency contraception is likely contributing to the decline in teen births, although it's not clear how much it is contributing, Comkornruecha said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Use of morning-after pill soars among teens" by Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Examiner 7/22/15
. . . what has changed over the last two decades — and is likely contributing to the falling teen pregnancy rate — is that fewer teens are having sex in the first place. From 2011 to 2013, 44 percent of female teens and 47 percent of male teens had sex at least once.
Those rates ticked up slightly from the 2006 to 2010 period, but it's still well below rates of teen sexual activity in 1988, when 51 percent of females and 60 percent of males had engaged in intercourse.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Abstinence Education Yields Lowest Teen Birth Rate Ever as well as Abstinent Teens the Norm, Moral Sex-Ed Works: Study
Thursday, February 05, 2015
Over-the-Counter Abortion Paid by ObamaCare: Study
While Planned Parenthood and other birth control fanatics claim that the morning-after pill (Plan B) prevents fertilization and thus does NOT kill a created human being, a new report published by Chris Kahlenborn (The Polycarp Research Institute), Rebecca Peck (Florida State University College of Medicine), and Walter Severs (College of Medicine at Penn State University) in The Linacre Quarterly shows that "the latest scientific and medical evidence now demonstrates that levonorgestrel emergency contraception theoretically works via abortion quite often."
For background, read ObamaCare Lies: Taxpayers Now Fund Abortions, Says Government Study
Also read Unlimited Plan B Abortion Pills are in Stores for Kids such that the Morning-After Pill is Becoming the 'Contraceptive' Choice
In addition, read about the on-going battle of ObamaCare forcing Christians to pay for abortifacients, contraceptives and sterilizations.
-- From "New scientific review: Plan B causes abortions" by Drew Belsky, American Thinker 2/4/15
The review lays out eight arguments "against an abortifacient effect" and debunks them, relying in significant part on a study by Noé, et. al in 2010 – "the largest study to date to employ serial trasvaginal assessments of follicular size to determine ovulation." Basically, the information in Noé, along with a number of other studies, shows that Plan B does not delay or otherwise affect ovulation significantly enough to rule out the likelihood of the drug operating after fertilization (i.e., destroying a unique human being). Further, "there is absence of clinical pregnancy in cases where fertilization is likely, which suggests that abortion is a likely mechanism of action."
"The claim," the authors conclude, "that moral certitude exists via LNG-EC's non-abortifacient action is currently indefensible."
The mechanisms of hormonal contraception have always been poorly understood, if only because one cannot pinpoint the exact moment of fertilization. Plan B's own label proclaims that the drug can cause the death of a unique human embryo – "It may also prevent fertilization of a released egg ... or attachment of a fertilized egg to the uterus." The term "fertilized egg" is misleading, because once an egg is fertilized, it is no longer an egg. There is no spermatazoon at that point, and no ovum, but only a discrete human being, with the full complement of chromosomes (generally) and the workings in place to develop and grow.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Obamacare-Covered Morning-After Pill 'Works Via Abortion Quite Often,' Medical Ethics Journal Reports" by Napp Nazworth, Christian Post Reporter 2/5/15
Plan B was first approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999. After passage of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," the Health and Human Services Administration required most employers to cover Plan B and other FDA-approved emergency contraceptives in their employee's health insurance plans.
This "birth control mandate" led to numerous court battles involving religious groups and businesses, some of whom only objected to coverage of certain emergency contraceptives due to their potential to behave like an abortifacient drug.
The cases involving religious nonprofits, such as Christian colleges and social service groups, have continued. On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit heard oral arguments in a challenge to the mandate by EWTN Global Catholic Network, a television and radio ministry founded by a nun.
In 2012, when there was much debate over Plan B and Obamacare, for instance, the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics released a statement saying that Plan B does not inhibit implantation. Some liberal news sites reported on that statement under headlines like, "Abortion Qualms on Morning-After Pill May Be Unfounded," and "Morning-After Pills Don't Cause Abortion, Studies Say."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read President Obama Touts Abortion; Americans March Against It
For background, read ObamaCare Lies: Taxpayers Now Fund Abortions, Says Government Study
Also read Unlimited Plan B Abortion Pills are in Stores for Kids such that the Morning-After Pill is Becoming the 'Contraceptive' Choice
In addition, read about the on-going battle of ObamaCare forcing Christians to pay for abortifacients, contraceptives and sterilizations.
-- From "New scientific review: Plan B causes abortions" by Drew Belsky, American Thinker 2/4/15
The review lays out eight arguments "against an abortifacient effect" and debunks them, relying in significant part on a study by Noé, et. al in 2010 – "the largest study to date to employ serial trasvaginal assessments of follicular size to determine ovulation." Basically, the information in Noé, along with a number of other studies, shows that Plan B does not delay or otherwise affect ovulation significantly enough to rule out the likelihood of the drug operating after fertilization (i.e., destroying a unique human being). Further, "there is absence of clinical pregnancy in cases where fertilization is likely, which suggests that abortion is a likely mechanism of action."
"The claim," the authors conclude, "that moral certitude exists via LNG-EC's non-abortifacient action is currently indefensible."
The mechanisms of hormonal contraception have always been poorly understood, if only because one cannot pinpoint the exact moment of fertilization. Plan B's own label proclaims that the drug can cause the death of a unique human embryo – "It may also prevent fertilization of a released egg ... or attachment of a fertilized egg to the uterus." The term "fertilized egg" is misleading, because once an egg is fertilized, it is no longer an egg. There is no spermatazoon at that point, and no ovum, but only a discrete human being, with the full complement of chromosomes (generally) and the workings in place to develop and grow.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Obamacare-Covered Morning-After Pill 'Works Via Abortion Quite Often,' Medical Ethics Journal Reports" by Napp Nazworth, Christian Post Reporter 2/5/15
Plan B was first approved for use by the Food and Drug Administration in 1999. After passage of the Affordable Care Act, or "Obamacare," the Health and Human Services Administration required most employers to cover Plan B and other FDA-approved emergency contraceptives in their employee's health insurance plans.
This "birth control mandate" led to numerous court battles involving religious groups and businesses, some of whom only objected to coverage of certain emergency contraceptives due to their potential to behave like an abortifacient drug.
The cases involving religious nonprofits, such as Christian colleges and social service groups, have continued. On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit heard oral arguments in a challenge to the mandate by EWTN Global Catholic Network, a television and radio ministry founded by a nun.
In 2012, when there was much debate over Plan B and Obamacare, for instance, the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics released a statement saying that Plan B does not inhibit implantation. Some liberal news sites reported on that statement under headlines like, "Abortion Qualms on Morning-After Pill May Be Unfounded," and "Morning-After Pills Don't Cause Abortion, Studies Say."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read President Obama Touts Abortion; Americans March Against It
Monday, August 05, 2013
Unlimited Plan B Abortion Pill in Stores for Kids
For the cost of half a tank of gasoline, anyone can now purchase a potent drug (which is very harmful when directions are not followed specifically) for the explicit purpose, according to the product label, of flushing a fertilized egg -- a human being -- from its mother's womb. The pill, quickly becoming the "contraceptive" of choice for doctors, sexual predators, and hedonists alike, is displayed on store shelves along side typical contraceptives.
For background, read how pediatricians are pushing the Plan B onto teens, and read the statistics of its increased usage.
Also read Schools Secretly Give 14-year-olds Plan B Pill as well as Abortifacients Given to Kids via Vending Machine for $25
In addition, read how Feminists are Enabling Men to Push The Pill on Girls
-- From "Plan B One-Step Now For Sale: What You Should Know" by Alexandra Sifferlin, Time Magazine 8/1/13
Since the early 2000s, women’s reproductive health groups have been pushing to get Plan B over-the-counter . . .
In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration granted its approval for making the birth control, which comes in one- and two-dose forms, available over-the-counter, but that decision was overruled by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who expressed concerns that girls as young as 11 would be able to purchase the product without a prescription. HHS placed an age restriction on the emergency contraceptive, requiring anyone under age 17 to have a prescription while allowing older women over-the-counter access.
However, this spring, U.S. District Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn overturned the decision, saying it was made in “bad faith and improper political influence.” In response . . . the Department of Justice dropped an initial plan to appeal, making it possible for Plan B One-Step to be sold in pharmacies, without a prescription and without any age restrictions.
. . . The pill is designed to prevent pregnancy by keeping a woman’s ovary from releasing eggs for a longer period of time, by impeding fertilization or even by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. [In other words, aborting a fertilized egg.]
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "'Morning after' pill goes on sale Thursday in pharmacies and grocery stores, available to anyone" by Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News 7/31/13
At Walmart, "it is currently in the process of being shipped to stores, and will begin arriving in stores, to the family planning section, next week," said Walmart spokeswoman Danit Marquardt.
Nationwide chains such as Walgreens, CVS and Safeway all said they were moving the product Wednesday night to the health, feminine hygiene or family planning aisles of their stores. It is already available at Rite Aid.
"We are incredibly excited about this development," said Lupe Rodriguez of Planned Parenthood-Mar Monte, based in San Jose. "Access alongside other medications, like Tylenol, will make it incredibly more available to women."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Major Drugstore Chains Now Selling Abortion-Inducing 'Plan B' Off the Shelf" by Penny Starr, CNSNews.com 8/1/13
. . . However, the Food and Drug Administrations also says it does not have any authority to require retailers to carry specific products, including Plan B. Thus, stores remain free to sell or not sell the abortion-inducing drug.
Spokespersons for CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens told CNSNews.com . . . that they would be selling the drug on shelves in their stores for anyone to access. . . .
“Over-the-counter access to emergency contraceptive products has the potential to further decrease the rate of unintended pregnancies in the United States,” said Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Abstinence Education Yields Lowest Teen Birth Rate Ever as well as Abstinent Teens the Norm, Moral Sex-Ed Works: Study
For background, read how pediatricians are pushing the Plan B onto teens, and read the statistics of its increased usage.
Also read Schools Secretly Give 14-year-olds Plan B Pill as well as Abortifacients Given to Kids via Vending Machine for $25
In addition, read how Feminists are Enabling Men to Push The Pill on Girls
-- From "Plan B One-Step Now For Sale: What You Should Know" by Alexandra Sifferlin, Time Magazine 8/1/13
Since the early 2000s, women’s reproductive health groups have been pushing to get Plan B over-the-counter . . .
In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration granted its approval for making the birth control, which comes in one- and two-dose forms, available over-the-counter, but that decision was overruled by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who expressed concerns that girls as young as 11 would be able to purchase the product without a prescription. HHS placed an age restriction on the emergency contraceptive, requiring anyone under age 17 to have a prescription while allowing older women over-the-counter access.
However, this spring, U.S. District Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn overturned the decision, saying it was made in “bad faith and improper political influence.” In response . . . the Department of Justice dropped an initial plan to appeal, making it possible for Plan B One-Step to be sold in pharmacies, without a prescription and without any age restrictions.
. . . The pill is designed to prevent pregnancy by keeping a woman’s ovary from releasing eggs for a longer period of time, by impeding fertilization or even by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus. [In other words, aborting a fertilized egg.]
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "'Morning after' pill goes on sale Thursday in pharmacies and grocery stores, available to anyone" by Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News 7/31/13
At Walmart, "it is currently in the process of being shipped to stores, and will begin arriving in stores, to the family planning section, next week," said Walmart spokeswoman Danit Marquardt.
Nationwide chains such as Walgreens, CVS and Safeway all said they were moving the product Wednesday night to the health, feminine hygiene or family planning aisles of their stores. It is already available at Rite Aid.
"We are incredibly excited about this development," said Lupe Rodriguez of Planned Parenthood-Mar Monte, based in San Jose. "Access alongside other medications, like Tylenol, will make it incredibly more available to women."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Major Drugstore Chains Now Selling Abortion-Inducing 'Plan B' Off the Shelf" by Penny Starr, CNSNews.com 8/1/13
. . . However, the Food and Drug Administrations also says it does not have any authority to require retailers to carry specific products, including Plan B. Thus, stores remain free to sell or not sell the abortion-inducing drug.
Spokespersons for CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens told CNSNews.com . . . that they would be selling the drug on shelves in their stores for anyone to access. . . .
“Over-the-counter access to emergency contraceptive products has the potential to further decrease the rate of unintended pregnancies in the United States,” said Dr. Janet Woodcock, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Abstinence Education Yields Lowest Teen Birth Rate Ever as well as Abstinent Teens the Norm, Moral Sex-Ed Works: Study
Friday, February 15, 2013
Morning-After Pill Becoming 'Contraceptive' Choice
Use of the so-called "emergency contraceptive" Plan B abortifacient has skyrocketed as more women use the pill after incidents of unforeseen, unexpected, surprise, or just routine sexual intercourse -- in fact, about six million women over a four-year period, many taking the pill multiple times, according to the federal CDC.
UPDATE 8/5/13: Unlimited Plan B Abortion Pill in Stores for Kids
UPDATE 2/5/15: Over-the-Counter Abortion (Plan B) Paid by ObamaCare, Says Study
For background, read Doctors Say Teens Need Abortifacients at the Ready and also read Schools Secretly Give 14-year-olds Morning After Pill as well as Abortifacients Given to Kids via Vending Machine for $25
In response to the government forcing this on Christians, Catholic Bishops Slam Obama: Criminal in Eyes of God
-- From "Morning-after pill use up" by The Associated Press 2/14/13
A government report says an increasing number of women are using the morning-after pill after sex. The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the first by the government to focus on emergency contraception since the approval of the morning-after pill 15 years ago.
Eleven percent of females ages 15 to 44 who'd had sex say they've used the morning-after pill. That's up from 4 percent in 2002.
In the study, half the women who used the pills said they did it because they'd had unprotected sex. Others said the condom broke or they were worried that the birth control method they used had failed.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Use of Morning-After Pill Is Rising, Report Says" by Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times 2/14/13
The finding is likely to add to the public debate over rules issued by the Obama administration under the new health care law that require most employers to provide free coverage of birth control, including morning-after pills, to female employees. Some religious institutions and some employers have objected to the requirement and filed lawsuits to block its enforcement.
Morning-after pills are particularly controversial among some conservative groups who contend they can cause abortions by interfering with the implantation of a fertilized egg that the groups regard as a person.
Medical experts say that portrayal is inaccurate, and that studies provide strong evidence that the most commonly used pills do not hinder implantation, but work by delaying or preventing ovulation so that an egg is never fertilized in the first place, or thicken cervical mucus so sperm have trouble moving.
[The "portrayal is inaccurate" with only "strong evidence" of the "most commonly used pills?"]
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "More Women Turn To Morning-After Pill" by Julie Rovner, National Public Radio WBUR (Boston) 2/14/13
Users of emergency contraception were most likely to be between age 20 and 24 (23 percent), never married (19 percent) and have at least some college education.
. . . only 6 percent of those with less than a high school education said they had used it.
And Catholic women reported using artificial birth control in smaller numbers than women of other religions, that use was still fairly widespread. According to the study, 89 percent of Catholic women reported having used a condom with a male partner, compared to 95-97 percent of Protestant women. Similarly, about 76 percent of Catholic women said they had used the birth control pill, compared to 86 percent of Protestant women.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Report: More U.S. women using 'morning-after' pill" by Catholic Online 2/14/13
Of those surveyed, 59 percent said they took it just once, while 24 percent said they used it twice. Seventeen percent said they used it three times or more.
As with other birth control, Plan B purports to stop pregnancy by blocking the release of a woman's egg. However, though it may prevent fertilization - it also can act to prevent implantation in the uterus of an already fertilized egg. It must be taken within days after intercourse to work.
In other words, this so called contraceptive has the potential to act as an abortion inducing drug if conception has already occurred. It ejects the embryonic person before implantation, causing an abortion.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read American Trend: Fewer Children, More Animals/Pets
UPDATE 8/5/13: Unlimited Plan B Abortion Pill in Stores for Kids
UPDATE 2/5/15: Over-the-Counter Abortion (Plan B) Paid by ObamaCare, Says Study
For background, read Doctors Say Teens Need Abortifacients at the Ready and also read Schools Secretly Give 14-year-olds Morning After Pill as well as Abortifacients Given to Kids via Vending Machine for $25
In response to the government forcing this on Christians, Catholic Bishops Slam Obama: Criminal in Eyes of God
-- From "Morning-after pill use up" by The Associated Press 2/14/13
A government report says an increasing number of women are using the morning-after pill after sex. The study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the first by the government to focus on emergency contraception since the approval of the morning-after pill 15 years ago.
Eleven percent of females ages 15 to 44 who'd had sex say they've used the morning-after pill. That's up from 4 percent in 2002.
In the study, half the women who used the pills said they did it because they'd had unprotected sex. Others said the condom broke or they were worried that the birth control method they used had failed.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Use of Morning-After Pill Is Rising, Report Says" by Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times 2/14/13
The finding is likely to add to the public debate over rules issued by the Obama administration under the new health care law that require most employers to provide free coverage of birth control, including morning-after pills, to female employees. Some religious institutions and some employers have objected to the requirement and filed lawsuits to block its enforcement.
Morning-after pills are particularly controversial among some conservative groups who contend they can cause abortions by interfering with the implantation of a fertilized egg that the groups regard as a person.
Medical experts say that portrayal is inaccurate, and that studies provide strong evidence that the most commonly used pills do not hinder implantation, but work by delaying or preventing ovulation so that an egg is never fertilized in the first place, or thicken cervical mucus so sperm have trouble moving.
[The "portrayal is inaccurate" with only "strong evidence" of the "most commonly used pills?"]
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "More Women Turn To Morning-After Pill" by Julie Rovner, National Public Radio WBUR (Boston) 2/14/13
Users of emergency contraception were most likely to be between age 20 and 24 (23 percent), never married (19 percent) and have at least some college education.
. . . only 6 percent of those with less than a high school education said they had used it.
And Catholic women reported using artificial birth control in smaller numbers than women of other religions, that use was still fairly widespread. According to the study, 89 percent of Catholic women reported having used a condom with a male partner, compared to 95-97 percent of Protestant women. Similarly, about 76 percent of Catholic women said they had used the birth control pill, compared to 86 percent of Protestant women.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Report: More U.S. women using 'morning-after' pill" by Catholic Online 2/14/13
Of those surveyed, 59 percent said they took it just once, while 24 percent said they used it twice. Seventeen percent said they used it three times or more.
As with other birth control, Plan B purports to stop pregnancy by blocking the release of a woman's egg. However, though it may prevent fertilization - it also can act to prevent implantation in the uterus of an already fertilized egg. It must be taken within days after intercourse to work.
In other words, this so called contraceptive has the potential to act as an abortion inducing drug if conception has already occurred. It ejects the embryonic person before implantation, causing an abortion.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read American Trend: Fewer Children, More Animals/Pets
Monday, November 26, 2012
Doctors Say Teens Need Abortifacients at the Ready
The American Academy of Pediatrics is urging all pediatricians to prescribe the morning-after pill (Plan B) to ALL post-pubescent girls, no matter how young, so that the girls don't have to give any thought to the consequences of sexual activity. The Academy says this will reduce unwanted pregnancies by eliminating the delay of obtaining a prescription AFTER sex.
Yet, most girls fantasize of being a virgin at marriage.
For background, read Teenage Girls Need More Risk-free Sex, Doctors Say and also read Schools Secretly Give 14-year-olds Morning After Pill as well as Parents Want Obama-paid Abortionist out of School and consider that Planned Parenthood Lures Teen clients via Texting
Who do these sexperts think they're helping? Sexualization of Kids Doesn't Yield Self-worth
UPDATE 12/3/12: American College of Pediatricians warns access to abortifacients doesn't lower pregnancy rates of teens, but rather increases sexually transmitted diseases
-- From "Doctors urged to prescribe teens Plan B before they have sex" by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times 11/26/12
The academy is issuing the new position paper, published online Monday by the journal Pediatrics, as physicians and other health experts struggle to reduce the nation's high birthrate among adolescents.
The birthrate among Americans ages 15 to 19 dropped 44% between 1991 and 2010, to 34.3 births per 1,000 women, the CDC reported.
. . . nearly 80% of teen pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended, occurring after unprotected sex or "underprotected" sex — when the contraceptive method of choice fails. [But, was the SEX "unintended?" What are the possible consequences of having sex?]
Emergency contraceptives like levonorgestrel, if taken within three to five days, can prevent pregnancy by stopping the ovary from releasing an egg or by stopping sperm from fertilizing an egg. The drugs are also thought to change the uterine lining, thwarting a pregnancy that might otherwise take hold, according to the National Library of Medicine. [In other words, aborting a fertilized egg.]
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Prescribe morning-after pills in advance, say pediatricians" by Sharon Begley, Reuters 11/26/12
The most common form of emergency contraception is a high dose of a regular birth-control pill such as Plan B and Plan B One-Step from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd or Next Choice from Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. They generally sell for $10 to $80 and, although they can work as long as 120 hours after unprotected sex, are most effective in the first 24 hours.
A 2006-08 survey found that 14 percent of sexually experienced girls had used emergency contraception, up from 8 percent in a 2002 survey. The most common reason was condom failure, but 13 percent of the girls said it was because of rape.
"It's just common sense that requiring a prescription is a barrier," said Bill Alpert, chief program officer of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. "If an august and respected medical group like AAP is suggesting providing emergency contraception to minors is OK, that is a big deal."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "AAP: Teach Teens About Emergency Contraception" by Cole Petrochko, Staff Writer, MedPage Today 11/26/12
The [American Academy of Pediatrics] policy statement recommended three methods of emergency contraception, including levonorgestrel (Plan B), ulipristal acetate, and the Yuzpe method, which involves use of combining oral hormonal contraceptives.
Plan B requires patients to take two 0.75 mg levonorgestrel tablets 12 hours apart or a single 1.5 mg dose, which may be "equally effective and without increase in adverse effects." The drug is contraindicated in patients who are known to be pregnant and may cause adverse events of nausea, vomiting, and heavier menstrual bleeding. Patients should take a pregnancy test if they do not have a normal period within 3 weeks of using Plan B.
Ulipristal is a single pill (30 mg) that prevents binding of progesterone and should be taken within 120 hours after unprotected sex. Adverse events include headache, nausea, and abdominal pain. Patients with existing pregnancy should not take ulipristal due to risk of fetal loss, and use may require a pregnancy test. Patients with severe abdominal pain 3 to 5 weeks after treatment should be evaluated for ectopic pregnancy.
The Yuzpe method requires patients to take two doses of at least 100 µg of ethinyl estradiol and at least 500 µg of levonorgestrel and can be useful for patients with "no or limited access to an emergency contraception product." Though the use is considered off-label, the statement noted that the combination oral contraceptive use has been declared safe and effective.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "AAP says teen girls should get the morning-after-pill before they need it" by Dr. Claire McCarthy (posted at Boston Globe) 11/26/12
. . . along with telling [kids] to take vitamins, we should be giving them a prescription for Plan B.
I’m not saying that babies aren’t wonderful [but] . . . Having a baby as a teen throws school, college, graduate school and getting a good job into jeopardy.
. . . Studies show that having a plan B prescription ahead of time makes teens more likely to use it when they need it (many teens delay getting in touch with the doctor, especially if they might have to tell a parent)—and it doesn’t make them more likely to have sex or less likely to use regular contraception. [Really?!]
I know this will make a lot of parents uncomfortable.
To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Abstinence Education Yields Lowest Teen Birth Rate Ever as well as Abstinent Teens the Norm, Moral Sex-Ed Works: Study
Yet, most girls fantasize of being a virgin at marriage.
For background, read Teenage Girls Need More Risk-free Sex, Doctors Say and also read Schools Secretly Give 14-year-olds Morning After Pill as well as Parents Want Obama-paid Abortionist out of School and consider that Planned Parenthood Lures Teen clients via Texting
Who do these sexperts think they're helping? Sexualization of Kids Doesn't Yield Self-worth
UPDATE 12/3/12: American College of Pediatricians warns access to abortifacients doesn't lower pregnancy rates of teens, but rather increases sexually transmitted diseases
-- From "Doctors urged to prescribe teens Plan B before they have sex" by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times 11/26/12
The academy is issuing the new position paper, published online Monday by the journal Pediatrics, as physicians and other health experts struggle to reduce the nation's high birthrate among adolescents.
The birthrate among Americans ages 15 to 19 dropped 44% between 1991 and 2010, to 34.3 births per 1,000 women, the CDC reported.
. . . nearly 80% of teen pregnancies in the U.S. are unintended, occurring after unprotected sex or "underprotected" sex — when the contraceptive method of choice fails. [But, was the SEX "unintended?" What are the possible consequences of having sex?]
Emergency contraceptives like levonorgestrel, if taken within three to five days, can prevent pregnancy by stopping the ovary from releasing an egg or by stopping sperm from fertilizing an egg. The drugs are also thought to change the uterine lining, thwarting a pregnancy that might otherwise take hold, according to the National Library of Medicine. [In other words, aborting a fertilized egg.]
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Prescribe morning-after pills in advance, say pediatricians" by Sharon Begley, Reuters 11/26/12
The most common form of emergency contraception is a high dose of a regular birth-control pill such as Plan B and Plan B One-Step from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd or Next Choice from Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. They generally sell for $10 to $80 and, although they can work as long as 120 hours after unprotected sex, are most effective in the first 24 hours.
A 2006-08 survey found that 14 percent of sexually experienced girls had used emergency contraception, up from 8 percent in a 2002 survey. The most common reason was condom failure, but 13 percent of the girls said it was because of rape.
"It's just common sense that requiring a prescription is a barrier," said Bill Alpert, chief program officer of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. "If an august and respected medical group like AAP is suggesting providing emergency contraception to minors is OK, that is a big deal."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "AAP: Teach Teens About Emergency Contraception" by Cole Petrochko, Staff Writer, MedPage Today 11/26/12
The [American Academy of Pediatrics] policy statement recommended three methods of emergency contraception, including levonorgestrel (Plan B), ulipristal acetate, and the Yuzpe method, which involves use of combining oral hormonal contraceptives.
Plan B requires patients to take two 0.75 mg levonorgestrel tablets 12 hours apart or a single 1.5 mg dose, which may be "equally effective and without increase in adverse effects." The drug is contraindicated in patients who are known to be pregnant and may cause adverse events of nausea, vomiting, and heavier menstrual bleeding. Patients should take a pregnancy test if they do not have a normal period within 3 weeks of using Plan B.
Ulipristal is a single pill (30 mg) that prevents binding of progesterone and should be taken within 120 hours after unprotected sex. Adverse events include headache, nausea, and abdominal pain. Patients with existing pregnancy should not take ulipristal due to risk of fetal loss, and use may require a pregnancy test. Patients with severe abdominal pain 3 to 5 weeks after treatment should be evaluated for ectopic pregnancy.
The Yuzpe method requires patients to take two doses of at least 100 µg of ethinyl estradiol and at least 500 µg of levonorgestrel and can be useful for patients with "no or limited access to an emergency contraception product." Though the use is considered off-label, the statement noted that the combination oral contraceptive use has been declared safe and effective.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "AAP says teen girls should get the morning-after-pill before they need it" by Dr. Claire McCarthy (posted at Boston Globe) 11/26/12
. . . along with telling [kids] to take vitamins, we should be giving them a prescription for Plan B.
I’m not saying that babies aren’t wonderful [but] . . . Having a baby as a teen throws school, college, graduate school and getting a good job into jeopardy.
. . . Studies show that having a plan B prescription ahead of time makes teens more likely to use it when they need it (many teens delay getting in touch with the doctor, especially if they might have to tell a parent)—and it doesn’t make them more likely to have sex or less likely to use regular contraception. [Really?!]
I know this will make a lot of parents uncomfortable.
To read the entire opinion column above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Abstinence Education Yields Lowest Teen Birth Rate Ever as well as Abstinent Teens the Norm, Moral Sex-Ed Works: Study
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Schools Secretly Give 14-year-olds Morning After Pill
Since last year, public schools in New York City have given 567 students free Plan-B abortifacient drugs, but the program was only made public days ago announcing that 13 schools give girls the pill WITHOUT parental consent, even though it is illegal for a pharmacy to sell the pill to girls under age 17 without a prescription. In order to protect children from the program, parents must proactively direct the school to exclude their own daughter from the program.
UPDATE 2/3/13 - Truth leaks out: 12,721 Plan B Handed Out last year in NY City Schools
For background, read Condom Training Mandated for NY City Schools and even worse NY Schools To Teach Sex Performance Techniques
Also read Washington School Arranges Secret Abortion as well as Secret Abortions Continue in Illinois and read Abortifacients Given to Kids via Vending Machine for $25
-- From "Morning-after pills available to N.Y. high school students" by Jonathan Allen, Reuters 9/24/12
The program, which started last year and now has been instituted at 13 high schools, allows school nurses to give students emergency contraceptive pills, designed to prevent pregnancy following unprotected sex or a contraceptive failure if taken within 72 hours. It also provides condoms, birth-control pills and pregnancy testing.
Parents were informed of the program from the start and given the choice of opting out of any or all of the services but have largely supported the program, [Alexandra Waldhorn, a health department spokeswoman] said, but it had not been reported on until the New York Post wrote about it during the weekend.
Greg Pfundstein, the executive director of the Chiaroscuro Foundation, an anti-abortion group in New York, said the program should be conducted on an opt-in basis so that parents had to actively give their consent.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "NYC Schools Offer Morning-After Pill" by Cristina Costantini, ABC News 9/24/12
Although the program -- called CATCH, or Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive Health -- allows parents to opt-out their daughters, only 1 to 2 percent of parents have chosen to do so after letters were sent to their homes, according to Deborah Kaplan, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health for the NYC Department of Health.
Some critics say the initiative encourages unhealthy decision-making when it comes to sex. Still others, like Pania Palacios, the mother of a sophomore at one of the participating CATCH schools, say the use birth control should require parental oversight. Palacios never received the letter allowing her to remove her daughter from the program, and she wasn't happy about it, she told the New York Post:
"Parents should know if their daughter is pregnant."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Girls age 14 can get birth control at New York City schools" by Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times 9/24/12
“We’re incensed at the arrogance of this administration. The state is constantly telling parents, ‘We know better than you on how to raise your children,’” said the Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of the New Yorker's Family Research Foundation.
“Our kids are being targeted and they’re being sold sex. That’s what this is all about, and it needs to stop,” said Michelle Mulledy, New York state director for Concerned Women for America.
The plan is “tragic and misguided,” New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn said in a blog post Monday.
This plan “usurps” parents’ roles as first educators for their children “and allows the public school system to substitute its beliefs and values for those of the parents,” they wrote.
Plan B is a birth-control product designed to prevent pregnancy if taken 72 hours after unprotected sex. While hailed as an essential tool to prevent unwanted pregnancy, it is controversial because it could disrupt implantation of a fertilized egg; many pro-life supporters see it as an unacceptable abortion drug.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Abstinence Education Yields Lowest Teen Birth Rate Ever as well as Abstinent Teens the Norm, Moral Sex-Ed Works: Study but nonetheless, Doctors Say Teenage Girls Need More Risk-free Sex
". . . in an ideal world a teen would consult with a parent or caregivers before becoming sexually active and seeking out birth control, [instead, this program] equips school nurses and other qualified staff to be those responsible adults providing appropriate advice and medical care."(It takes a village . . .)
-- Joan Malin, president of Planned Parenthood of New York City
UPDATE 2/3/13 - Truth leaks out: 12,721 Plan B Handed Out last year in NY City Schools
For background, read Condom Training Mandated for NY City Schools and even worse NY Schools To Teach Sex Performance Techniques
Also read Washington School Arranges Secret Abortion as well as Secret Abortions Continue in Illinois and read Abortifacients Given to Kids via Vending Machine for $25
-- From "Morning-after pills available to N.Y. high school students" by Jonathan Allen, Reuters 9/24/12
The program, which started last year and now has been instituted at 13 high schools, allows school nurses to give students emergency contraceptive pills, designed to prevent pregnancy following unprotected sex or a contraceptive failure if taken within 72 hours. It also provides condoms, birth-control pills and pregnancy testing.
Parents were informed of the program from the start and given the choice of opting out of any or all of the services but have largely supported the program, [Alexandra Waldhorn, a health department spokeswoman] said, but it had not been reported on until the New York Post wrote about it during the weekend.
Greg Pfundstein, the executive director of the Chiaroscuro Foundation, an anti-abortion group in New York, said the program should be conducted on an opt-in basis so that parents had to actively give their consent.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "NYC Schools Offer Morning-After Pill" by Cristina Costantini, ABC News 9/24/12
Although the program -- called CATCH, or Connecting Adolescents To Comprehensive Health -- allows parents to opt-out their daughters, only 1 to 2 percent of parents have chosen to do so after letters were sent to their homes, according to Deborah Kaplan, assistant commissioner of the Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health for the NYC Department of Health.
Some critics say the initiative encourages unhealthy decision-making when it comes to sex. Still others, like Pania Palacios, the mother of a sophomore at one of the participating CATCH schools, say the use birth control should require parental oversight. Palacios never received the letter allowing her to remove her daughter from the program, and she wasn't happy about it, she told the New York Post:
"Parents should know if their daughter is pregnant."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Girls age 14 can get birth control at New York City schools" by Cheryl Wetzstein, The Washington Times 9/24/12
“We’re incensed at the arrogance of this administration. The state is constantly telling parents, ‘We know better than you on how to raise your children,’” said the Rev. Jason McGuire, executive director of the New Yorker's Family Research Foundation.
“Our kids are being targeted and they’re being sold sex. That’s what this is all about, and it needs to stop,” said Michelle Mulledy, New York state director for Concerned Women for America.
The plan is “tragic and misguided,” New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn said in a blog post Monday.
This plan “usurps” parents’ roles as first educators for their children “and allows the public school system to substitute its beliefs and values for those of the parents,” they wrote.
Plan B is a birth-control product designed to prevent pregnancy if taken 72 hours after unprotected sex. While hailed as an essential tool to prevent unwanted pregnancy, it is controversial because it could disrupt implantation of a fertilized egg; many pro-life supporters see it as an unacceptable abortion drug.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Also read Abstinence Education Yields Lowest Teen Birth Rate Ever as well as Abstinent Teens the Norm, Moral Sex-Ed Works: Study but nonetheless, Doctors Say Teenage Girls Need More Risk-free Sex
Monday, February 27, 2012
Judge: Can't Strip Religious Liberty with Plan B
A federal judge negated a 2007 Washington state requirement, demanded by pro-abortion Gov. Chris Gregoire, that pharmacists sell the morning-after (Plan B) pill despite their claims to religious conscience.
For background, read 'Morning-after' Pill Gone at Pharmacists Choosing in Washington
-- From "Federal judge says Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell emergency contraceptives" by The Associated Press 2/22/12
The state’s true goal in adopting the rules at issue was not to promote the timely access to medicine, but to suppress religious objections by druggists who believe that such drugs can have an effect tantamount to abortion, U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton said in his ruling Wednesday.
Washington’s rules require that pharmacies stock and dispense drugs for which there is a demand. The state adopted the dispensing regulations in 2007, following reports that some women had been denied access to Plan B, which has a high dose of medicine found in birth-control pills and is effective if a woman takes it within 72 hours of unprotected sex.
“The most compelling evidence that the rules target religious conduct is the fact the rules contain numerous secular exemptions,” the judge said. “In sum, the rules exempt pharmacies and pharmacists from stocking and delivering lawfully prescribed drugs for an almost unlimited variety of secular reasons, but fail to provide exemptions for reasons of conscience.”
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Judge strikes down law mandating sale of contraception" by Katherine Luck, Reuters 2/23/12
"A pharmacy is permitted to refuse to stock oxycodone because it fears robbery, but the same pharmacy cannot refuse to stock Plan B because it objects on religious grounds," the judge wrote. "Why are these reasons treated differently under the rules?"
The judge also accused the state of enforcing the mandate selectively, noting that regulators had not opened cases against the many Catholic-affiliated pharmacies in the state that also refuse to dispense Plan B.
Leighton concluded in his opinion that the rules in question "are not neutral," adding: "They are designed instead to force religious objectors to dispense Plan B, and they sought to do so despite the fact that refusals to deliver for all sorts of secular reasons were permitted."
The ruling only applies to Washington state but is sure to reverberate nationally . . .
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Judge: Washington Can’t Mandate Pharmacists Dispense Plan B" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 2/22/12
The new regulations made it illegal to refer patients to neighboring pharmacies for reasons of conscience, despite allowing them to refer patients elsewhere for a wide variety of business, economic, or convenience reasons. Because of the regulations, Margo Thelen lost her job; Rhonda Mesler was told she would have to transfer to another state; and Kevin Stormans, the owner of Ralph’s Thriftway, faced repeated investigations and threats of punishment from the State Board of Pharmacy.
The plaintiffs in the case are a family-owned pharmacy (Ralph’s Thriftway) and two individual pharmacists (Margo Thelen and Rhonda Mesler) who cannot in good conscience dispense Plan B (“the morning-after pill”) or ella (“the week-after pill”). They filed suit seeking the right to refuse to stock or dispense the drugs.
A lower court issued an injunction against the new rules, on the basis that the suit was likely to succeed. In 2009, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the lower court ruling that had temporarily put on hold a requirement for pharmacists to dispense all legal drugs.
Now back at the lower court level ruling on the merits of the case itself, the court issued the pharmacists a legal victory.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Judge rules Wash. pharmacists cannot be forced to dispense contraception" by Benjamin Mann, Catholic News Agency 2/23/12
In his opinion, Judge Leighton recalled the controversy that gave rise to the Board of Pharmacy's 2007 rules. In 2006, the board adopted a draft rule allowing conscientious objectors to opt out of giving emergency contraception.
Governor Christine Gregoire, however, objected to the rules, declaring that “no one should be denied appropriate prescription drugs based on the personal, religious, or moral objection of individual pharmacists.”
Gregoire threatened to replace the entire board if it adopted the draft rule. Its final rule drew from proposals by Planned Parenthood and the Northwest Women’s Law Center, and included provisions Judge Leighton said were meant “to eliminate conscientious objection.”
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
For background, read 'Morning-after' Pill Gone at Pharmacists Choosing in Washington
-- From "Federal judge says Washington state cannot force pharmacies to sell emergency contraceptives" by The Associated Press 2/22/12
The state’s true goal in adopting the rules at issue was not to promote the timely access to medicine, but to suppress religious objections by druggists who believe that such drugs can have an effect tantamount to abortion, U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton said in his ruling Wednesday.
Washington’s rules require that pharmacies stock and dispense drugs for which there is a demand. The state adopted the dispensing regulations in 2007, following reports that some women had been denied access to Plan B, which has a high dose of medicine found in birth-control pills and is effective if a woman takes it within 72 hours of unprotected sex.
“The most compelling evidence that the rules target religious conduct is the fact the rules contain numerous secular exemptions,” the judge said. “In sum, the rules exempt pharmacies and pharmacists from stocking and delivering lawfully prescribed drugs for an almost unlimited variety of secular reasons, but fail to provide exemptions for reasons of conscience.”
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Judge strikes down law mandating sale of contraception" by Katherine Luck, Reuters 2/23/12
"A pharmacy is permitted to refuse to stock oxycodone because it fears robbery, but the same pharmacy cannot refuse to stock Plan B because it objects on religious grounds," the judge wrote. "Why are these reasons treated differently under the rules?"
The judge also accused the state of enforcing the mandate selectively, noting that regulators had not opened cases against the many Catholic-affiliated pharmacies in the state that also refuse to dispense Plan B.
Leighton concluded in his opinion that the rules in question "are not neutral," adding: "They are designed instead to force religious objectors to dispense Plan B, and they sought to do so despite the fact that refusals to deliver for all sorts of secular reasons were permitted."
The ruling only applies to Washington state but is sure to reverberate nationally . . .
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Judge: Washington Can’t Mandate Pharmacists Dispense Plan B" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 2/22/12
The new regulations made it illegal to refer patients to neighboring pharmacies for reasons of conscience, despite allowing them to refer patients elsewhere for a wide variety of business, economic, or convenience reasons. Because of the regulations, Margo Thelen lost her job; Rhonda Mesler was told she would have to transfer to another state; and Kevin Stormans, the owner of Ralph’s Thriftway, faced repeated investigations and threats of punishment from the State Board of Pharmacy.
The plaintiffs in the case are a family-owned pharmacy (Ralph’s Thriftway) and two individual pharmacists (Margo Thelen and Rhonda Mesler) who cannot in good conscience dispense Plan B (“the morning-after pill”) or ella (“the week-after pill”). They filed suit seeking the right to refuse to stock or dispense the drugs.
A lower court issued an injunction against the new rules, on the basis that the suit was likely to succeed. In 2009, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the lower court ruling that had temporarily put on hold a requirement for pharmacists to dispense all legal drugs.
Now back at the lower court level ruling on the merits of the case itself, the court issued the pharmacists a legal victory.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Judge rules Wash. pharmacists cannot be forced to dispense contraception" by Benjamin Mann, Catholic News Agency 2/23/12
In his opinion, Judge Leighton recalled the controversy that gave rise to the Board of Pharmacy's 2007 rules. In 2006, the board adopted a draft rule allowing conscientious objectors to opt out of giving emergency contraception.
Governor Christine Gregoire, however, objected to the rules, declaring that “no one should be denied appropriate prescription drugs based on the personal, religious, or moral objection of individual pharmacists.”
Gregoire threatened to replace the entire board if it adopted the draft rule. Its final rule drew from proposals by Planned Parenthood and the Northwest Women’s Law Center, and included provisions Judge Leighton said were meant “to eliminate conscientious objection.”
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Abortifacients to Kids via Vending Machine for $25
Although it's illegal to sell the Plan B "morning after pill" (which terminates pregnancy) to children under the age of 17 without a prescription, anyone capable of using a vending machine on the campus of Shippensburg University (near Philadelphia) can easily obtain this dangerous drug.
For background, read Plan B Remains Illegal for Kids Under 17 Despite FDA's Contrary Approval
UPDATE 1/29/13: Obama's FDA gives official "OK" for Plan B vending machine
-- From "Pa. college machine dispenses 'morning-after' pill" by The Associated Press 2/7/12
Vice President for Student Affairs Roger Serr says the machine was installed after a request from the student association and a survey found 85 percent of student respondents supported it.
Plan B is available without a prescription to anyone 17 or older.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Plan B at university vending machine - University releases statement" by Ewa Roman, WHPTV-21 (CBS Harrisburg, PA) 2/8/12
On Tuesday, Shippensburg University released a statement on the availability of Plan B to students:
From "Morning after pills in vending machine on college campus has regulators concerned" by Geoff Herbert, syracuse.com The Post-Standard 2/8/12
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it plans to contact state officials and the university to gather facts. It doesn't appear that any other vending machine in the U.S. dispenses the contraceptive, which can prevent pregnancy if taken soon after sexual intercourse.
But if it's been available at the school for more than two years, why all the fuss now?
Some religious conservatives like Dahlkemper have long considered Plan B to be tantamount to an abortion drug. Taking Plan B within 72 hours of sex -- whether it's rape, condom failure or not using regular contraception -- can cut the chances of pregnancy by up to 89 percent, especially if taken within the first 24 hours.
Rob Maher, a professor at the Duquesne University School of Pharmacy in Pittsburgh, told the Associated Press . . . [he's] worried the vending machine could mean a young person buys the emergency contraceptive drug without discussing risk factors with a health care professional. "That's the big risk with a vending machine like this," he said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Shippensburg University Vending Machine Dispenses Plan B" by Kevin Begos, Huffington Post 2/7/12
[Plan B is sold] in the vending machine along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests.
The machine has been in place for about two years, and its existence wasn't widely known until recently.
On whether the machine might violate the law, "I don't have a definite yes or no," said Ron Ruman, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State, which oversees the state pharmacy board. If a person younger than 17 used the machine, it "potentially could be a violation," he said.
Deanne Hall, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, noted that the ease of access to such a machine could be positive for many women, but she wondered whether self-treatment might deter sexual assault victims from seeking medical attention.
Said Anna Franzonello, counsel to Americans United For Life: "Students at Shippensburg University deserve better than to have their administration represent the potent drug with life-ending potential as no more harmful than any other vending machine item."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "University Allows Sale of Plan B Drug in Vending Machines" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 2/7/12
Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America condemned the sale of the drugs, that can cause early abortions in some cases.
“SU is now offering curbside abortions in the form of morning after pills (Plan B), which are being discreetly sold to students in a vending machine located at the campus’ health center for $25 a pop,” she said. “I really can’t understand what’s private about putting money into a machine to purchase a lethal drug and then watching folks bang on it when the pill box gets stuck.”
“But really, privacy isn’t the matter at hand here,’ she added. “What I and thousands of the students SFLA serve find most outrageous about this story is that Shippensburg University has placed a higher priority on what they perceive to be politically correct than on the safety and well-being of their female students.”
“To allow an abortion pill on campus to be sold through a vending machine without even so much as a doctor’s exam is beyond comprehension. Birth control requires a prescription and a consultation between the patient and doctor before ordering. Plan B is a high-dose version of the birth control bill intended to stop ovulation or abort a newly created human being after intercourse,” Hawkins continued. . . .
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
For background, read Plan B Remains Illegal for Kids Under 17 Despite FDA's Contrary Approval
UPDATE 1/29/13: Obama's FDA gives official "OK" for Plan B vending machine
-- From "Pa. college machine dispenses 'morning-after' pill" by The Associated Press 2/7/12
Vice President for Student Affairs Roger Serr says the machine was installed after a request from the student association and a survey found 85 percent of student respondents supported it.
Plan B is available without a prescription to anyone 17 or older.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Plan B at university vending machine - University releases statement" by Ewa Roman, WHPTV-21 (CBS Harrisburg, PA) 2/8/12
On Tuesday, Shippensburg University released a statement on the availability of Plan B to students:
We are not the first one to make Plan B available so this is not unique to us or to public higher education.To read the entire statement from the University, CLICK HERE.
The machine, which vends only health-related items, is in a private room in our health center and the health center is accessible only by students. There is one machine only and the medication is not available anywhere else on campus. In addition, no one can walk in off the street and go into the health center. Students proceed to a check-in desk located in the lobby and after checking in using appropriate identification are granted access to the private treatment area.
The university is not encouraging anyone to be sexually active. That is a decision each student makes on his or her own. The university does strongly encourage all students to make wise and appropriate decisions in all aspects of their lives.
Reproductive services are a personal decision to be made by every man and woman. As such, the university is providing students with a medication that they can obtain legally elsewhere as part of their ability to make their own choices. The medication does come with explanatory details about the drug, its usage and effects. Medical staff is also always available for consultation before a purchase is made.
From "Morning after pills in vending machine on college campus has regulators concerned" by Geoff Herbert, syracuse.com The Post-Standard 2/8/12
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it plans to contact state officials and the university to gather facts. It doesn't appear that any other vending machine in the U.S. dispenses the contraceptive, which can prevent pregnancy if taken soon after sexual intercourse.
But if it's been available at the school for more than two years, why all the fuss now?
Some religious conservatives like Dahlkemper have long considered Plan B to be tantamount to an abortion drug. Taking Plan B within 72 hours of sex -- whether it's rape, condom failure or not using regular contraception -- can cut the chances of pregnancy by up to 89 percent, especially if taken within the first 24 hours.
Rob Maher, a professor at the Duquesne University School of Pharmacy in Pittsburgh, told the Associated Press . . . [he's] worried the vending machine could mean a young person buys the emergency contraceptive drug without discussing risk factors with a health care professional. "That's the big risk with a vending machine like this," he said.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Shippensburg University Vending Machine Dispenses Plan B" by Kevin Begos, Huffington Post 2/7/12
[Plan B is sold] in the vending machine along with condoms, decongestants and pregnancy tests.
The machine has been in place for about two years, and its existence wasn't widely known until recently.
On whether the machine might violate the law, "I don't have a definite yes or no," said Ron Ruman, a spokesman for the Pennsylvania Department of State, which oversees the state pharmacy board. If a person younger than 17 used the machine, it "potentially could be a violation," he said.
Deanne Hall, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Pharmacy, noted that the ease of access to such a machine could be positive for many women, but she wondered whether self-treatment might deter sexual assault victims from seeking medical attention.
Said Anna Franzonello, counsel to Americans United For Life: "Students at Shippensburg University deserve better than to have their administration represent the potent drug with life-ending potential as no more harmful than any other vending machine item."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "University Allows Sale of Plan B Drug in Vending Machines" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 2/7/12
Kristan Hawkins of Students for Life of America condemned the sale of the drugs, that can cause early abortions in some cases.
“SU is now offering curbside abortions in the form of morning after pills (Plan B), which are being discreetly sold to students in a vending machine located at the campus’ health center for $25 a pop,” she said. “I really can’t understand what’s private about putting money into a machine to purchase a lethal drug and then watching folks bang on it when the pill box gets stuck.”
“But really, privacy isn’t the matter at hand here,’ she added. “What I and thousands of the students SFLA serve find most outrageous about this story is that Shippensburg University has placed a higher priority on what they perceive to be politically correct than on the safety and well-being of their female students.”
“To allow an abortion pill on campus to be sold through a vending machine without even so much as a doctor’s exam is beyond comprehension. Birth control requires a prescription and a consultation between the patient and doctor before ordering. Plan B is a high-dose version of the birth control bill intended to stop ovulation or abort a newly created human being after intercourse,” Hawkins continued. . . .
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
Thursday, December 08, 2011
White House Stuns Pro-abortion Crowd on Plan B
Although the FDA approved the morning-after abortion drug to be sold in grocery stores just like candy, Kathleen Sebelius, Obama's HHS secretary, overruled the bureaucrats lest the White House be the the subject of scorn by the vast majority of America.
President Obama has denied having anything to do with either the FDA approval or the decision of Kathleen Sebelius.
The morning-after pill remains available to girls seventeen and older without a prescription by simply asking the pharmacist behind the counter.
For background, read Illinois Pro-life Pharmacists Win Against Plan B and also read Enabling Men to Push The Pill on Girls as well as Federal Judge Orders "Plan B" Pill to Younger Teens
-- From "Morning-After Pill Curb is First Time Ever FDA Overruled by U.S. Chief" by Anna Edney and Drew Armstrong, Bloomberg 12/8/11
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius ordered Margaret Hamburg, the Food and Drug Administration chief, to reject the application by Petach Tikva, Israel-based Teva, citing potential sales to girls younger than age 17. Hamburg said she was ready yesterday to approve sales of Plan B One-Step without a prescription to women of all ages based on “science-based evidence.” The FDA said it was the first time HHS has overruled an agency approval.
Teva’s product reduces pregnancy risk if taken within three days of sex. As a result of Sebelius’s order, the pill will continue to be kept behind pharmacy counters and sold without prescription only to women 17 and older. Younger girls may obtain the drug with a doctor’s order.
Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, compared the Obama administration to that of former President George W. Bush, saying both are guilty of “playing politics with women’s health.”
Susan Wood, who resigned as the FDA’s women’s health director in 2005 because of the delay in approving over-the-counter emergency contraception, said she was shocked and disturbed by the administration’s move.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Obama Says He Didn't Intervene Over Plan B" by Laura Meckler and Jennifer Corbett Dooren, Wall Street Journal 12/8/11
The politics of the decision could have cut two ways for Mr. Obama. Had his administration allowed unrestricted sales of the drug, critics were sure to attack him from the political right. Some social conservatives view the use of the "morning after"drug as akin to abortion, and they were likely to accuse the president of affording young girls the ability to end a pregnancy on their own.
Administration officials said the White House learned from Ms. Sebelius her plans to maintain the restrictions on the drug's sales. White House officials said she made the decision on her own. But the president agreed with her, they said, and the White House didn't work to change her mind.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, a liberal advocacy group, petitioned the FDA in 2001 to make all brands of Plan B available over the counter, and sued the FDA in federal court over the issue in 2005. In 2009, the judge in the case ordered the FDA to "reconsider its decision regarding the Plan B switch to OTC use."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Plan B Aftermath: Democratic Women In Congress Go Easy On Obama" reported by Huffington Post 12/8/11
Women's rights groups expressed outrage on Wednesday when a top Obama administration official overruled a recommendation from government scientists to expand access to the morning-after pill, but Democratic members of Congress are being far more cautious with their criticism.
Many reproductive rights groups openly questioned whether the Obama administration was putting electoral politics above sound science ahead of next year's election.
Obama said on Thursday that he had nothing to do with Sebelius' decision, but that he fully stood behind it. Democratic lawmakers who supported the FDA recommendation, for the most part, are holding their fire, breaking with the national organizations, at least for now.
The decision over whether to restrict access to emergency contraception has been embroiled in politics since 2005. The American Medical Association, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Academy of Pediatrics have all strongly endorsed over-the-counter access to Plan B with no age restrictions, so that it could be found on pharmacy shelves as easily as Tylenol. But the FDA suspiciously delayed the decision under the George W. Bush administration in 2005, prompting a legal investigation.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "HHS Says No to Teens Buying Plan B Without Prescription" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 12/7/11
The decision is shocking given that the Obama administration [has] kowtowed to the abortion industry in every other area since Obama was elected in 2008 and this marks the first time Obama has crossed pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL that lobbied for approval of selling the rug to minors without a doctor’s prescription.
Jeanne Monahan of the Family Research Council, told the Post the morning after pill can work as an abortion drug if it prevents a newly-conceived unborn child from implanting and continuing pregnancy.
“It’s not a drug that prevents life — it’s a drug that destroys life,” said Monahan. “If we define life as beginning at fertilization or conception, then this drug can be an abortifacient.”
The morning after pill has done nothing to significantly curb the number of abortions.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "FDA considers making abortifacient Plan B available to minor girls over-the-counter" by Ben Johnson, LifeSiteNews.com 12/7/11
Janice Shaw Crouse, a Senior Fellow at Concerned Women for America said allowing children to purchase the drug without parental knowledge or consent undermines their ability to raise their own children. She added, “Even young children would be subject to an unscrupulous man who wants to take advantage of their vulnerability.”
She added that forcing store employees to distribute a potential abortifacient would represent a “complete disregard for the religious beliefs of people who feel very strongly about taking innocent human life, who must choose between following their consciences and losing their jobs.”
Although WebMD notes the pill may prevent ovulation or fertilization, the medical website acknowledges, “this type of emergency birth control prevents implantation of a fertilized egg in your uterus by altering its lining.”
Recent evidence from Europe suggests Plan B does little to reduce overall pregnancy rates but may encourage riskier sexual behavior. A study of the United Kingdom’s Teenage Pregnancy Strategy program, in which the government distributes the Morning After Pill to teenagers free of charge, found that pregnancy rates of minors under 16 remained static, while sexually transmitted diseases increased by 12 percent.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
President Obama has denied having anything to do with either the FDA approval or the decision of Kathleen Sebelius.
The morning-after pill remains available to girls seventeen and older without a prescription by simply asking the pharmacist behind the counter.
For background, read Illinois Pro-life Pharmacists Win Against Plan B and also read Enabling Men to Push The Pill on Girls as well as Federal Judge Orders "Plan B" Pill to Younger Teens
-- From "Morning-After Pill Curb is First Time Ever FDA Overruled by U.S. Chief" by Anna Edney and Drew Armstrong, Bloomberg 12/8/11
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius ordered Margaret Hamburg, the Food and Drug Administration chief, to reject the application by Petach Tikva, Israel-based Teva, citing potential sales to girls younger than age 17. Hamburg said she was ready yesterday to approve sales of Plan B One-Step without a prescription to women of all ages based on “science-based evidence.” The FDA said it was the first time HHS has overruled an agency approval.
Teva’s product reduces pregnancy risk if taken within three days of sex. As a result of Sebelius’s order, the pill will continue to be kept behind pharmacy counters and sold without prescription only to women 17 and older. Younger girls may obtain the drug with a doctor’s order.
Nancy Northup, president of the Center for Reproductive Rights, compared the Obama administration to that of former President George W. Bush, saying both are guilty of “playing politics with women’s health.”
Susan Wood, who resigned as the FDA’s women’s health director in 2005 because of the delay in approving over-the-counter emergency contraception, said she was shocked and disturbed by the administration’s move.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Obama Says He Didn't Intervene Over Plan B" by Laura Meckler and Jennifer Corbett Dooren, Wall Street Journal 12/8/11
The politics of the decision could have cut two ways for Mr. Obama. Had his administration allowed unrestricted sales of the drug, critics were sure to attack him from the political right. Some social conservatives view the use of the "morning after"drug as akin to abortion, and they were likely to accuse the president of affording young girls the ability to end a pregnancy on their own.
Administration officials said the White House learned from Ms. Sebelius her plans to maintain the restrictions on the drug's sales. White House officials said she made the decision on her own. But the president agreed with her, they said, and the White House didn't work to change her mind.
The Center for Reproductive Rights, a liberal advocacy group, petitioned the FDA in 2001 to make all brands of Plan B available over the counter, and sued the FDA in federal court over the issue in 2005. In 2009, the judge in the case ordered the FDA to "reconsider its decision regarding the Plan B switch to OTC use."
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Plan B Aftermath: Democratic Women In Congress Go Easy On Obama" reported by Huffington Post 12/8/11
Women's rights groups expressed outrage on Wednesday when a top Obama administration official overruled a recommendation from government scientists to expand access to the morning-after pill, but Democratic members of Congress are being far more cautious with their criticism.
Many reproductive rights groups openly questioned whether the Obama administration was putting electoral politics above sound science ahead of next year's election.
Obama said on Thursday that he had nothing to do with Sebelius' decision, but that he fully stood behind it. Democratic lawmakers who supported the FDA recommendation, for the most part, are holding their fire, breaking with the national organizations, at least for now.
The decision over whether to restrict access to emergency contraception has been embroiled in politics since 2005. The American Medical Association, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the American Academy of Pediatrics have all strongly endorsed over-the-counter access to Plan B with no age restrictions, so that it could be found on pharmacy shelves as easily as Tylenol. But the FDA suspiciously delayed the decision under the George W. Bush administration in 2005, prompting a legal investigation.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "HHS Says No to Teens Buying Plan B Without Prescription" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 12/7/11
The decision is shocking given that the Obama administration [has] kowtowed to the abortion industry in every other area since Obama was elected in 2008 and this marks the first time Obama has crossed pro-abortion groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL that lobbied for approval of selling the rug to minors without a doctor’s prescription.
Jeanne Monahan of the Family Research Council, told the Post the morning after pill can work as an abortion drug if it prevents a newly-conceived unborn child from implanting and continuing pregnancy.
“It’s not a drug that prevents life — it’s a drug that destroys life,” said Monahan. “If we define life as beginning at fertilization or conception, then this drug can be an abortifacient.”
The morning after pill has done nothing to significantly curb the number of abortions.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "FDA considers making abortifacient Plan B available to minor girls over-the-counter" by Ben Johnson, LifeSiteNews.com 12/7/11
Janice Shaw Crouse, a Senior Fellow at Concerned Women for America said allowing children to purchase the drug without parental knowledge or consent undermines their ability to raise their own children. She added, “Even young children would be subject to an unscrupulous man who wants to take advantage of their vulnerability.”
She added that forcing store employees to distribute a potential abortifacient would represent a “complete disregard for the religious beliefs of people who feel very strongly about taking innocent human life, who must choose between following their consciences and losing their jobs.”
Although WebMD notes the pill may prevent ovulation or fertilization, the medical website acknowledges, “this type of emergency birth control prevents implantation of a fertilized egg in your uterus by altering its lining.”
Recent evidence from Europe suggests Plan B does little to reduce overall pregnancy rates but may encourage riskier sexual behavior. A study of the United Kingdom’s Teenage Pregnancy Strategy program, in which the government distributes the Morning After Pill to teenagers free of charge, found that pregnancy rates of minors under 16 remained static, while sexually transmitted diseases increased by 12 percent.
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Friday, August 05, 2011
Tell Congress: Take Abortion out of ObamaCare
In response to the Obama administration's newest edict to Americans, "You must pay for other people's abortion drugs," pro-life congressmen have introduced the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act. Contact your senators (click here) for support of S.1467, and contact your congressman (click here) for support of H.R.1179.
For background, read White House Announces "Free Birth Control" and also read Bishops vs. ObamaCare on Right of Conscience
For up-to-date info on the bills, CLICK HERE.
-- From "Bill Hits Back on Obama Admin’s Forcing Abortion Drug Coverage" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 8/4/11
. . . the Obama administration has approved a recommendation from the Institute of Medicine suggesting that it force insurance companies to pay for birth control and drugs that can cause abortions under the Obamacare government-run health care program.
However, legislation sponsored by pro-life Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, HR 1179, and several pro-life members of the U.S. House [along with S. 1467 introduced by Sen. Roy Blunt] would help mitigate those conscience concerns.
The legislation allows an individual or institutional health care provider or health care plan to not be compelled to cover or refer for services or items (drugs) that violate their religious or moral views.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Americans Oppose Obama Decision to Force Birth Control Coverage" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 8/4/11
A new poll released today by Rasmussen Reports finds Americans strongly oppose the decision by the Obama administration force insurance companies to cover birth control (and abortion drugs) in the Obamacare health care plan.
The poll did not include mention of the ella drug — billed as a morning after pill but a drug that actually causes an abortion of a unique human being days after conception. Still, a plurality of Americans opposes the requirement the Obama administration put forward this week and they tell Rasmussen that they would like to have the option of picking their health plans based on cost and what coverage they need.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
For background, read White House Announces "Free Birth Control" and also read Bishops vs. ObamaCare on Right of Conscience
For up-to-date info on the bills, CLICK HERE.
-- From "Bill Hits Back on Obama Admin’s Forcing Abortion Drug Coverage" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 8/4/11
. . . the Obama administration has approved a recommendation from the Institute of Medicine suggesting that it force insurance companies to pay for birth control and drugs that can cause abortions under the Obamacare government-run health care program.
However, legislation sponsored by pro-life Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, HR 1179, and several pro-life members of the U.S. House [along with S. 1467 introduced by Sen. Roy Blunt] would help mitigate those conscience concerns.
The legislation allows an individual or institutional health care provider or health care plan to not be compelled to cover or refer for services or items (drugs) that violate their religious or moral views.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
From "Americans Oppose Obama Decision to Force Birth Control Coverage" by Steven Ertelt, LifeNews.com 8/4/11
A new poll released today by Rasmussen Reports finds Americans strongly oppose the decision by the Obama administration force insurance companies to cover birth control (and abortion drugs) in the Obamacare health care plan.
The poll did not include mention of the ella drug — billed as a morning after pill but a drug that actually causes an abortion of a unique human being days after conception. Still, a plurality of Americans opposes the requirement the Obama administration put forward this week and they tell Rasmussen that they would like to have the option of picking their health plans based on cost and what coverage they need.
To read the entire article above, CLICK HERE.
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