Brian X

Wow, so much bullshit, so little space to respond.

"No—your friendly physician is simply giving you drugs because you’re a woman."

Sanctimoniously raising the spectre of involuntary medication and gender bias. Of course, hard-core righties don't give a shit about gender bias, and a lot of them don't much care for the medical establishment.

"The gynecologists’ group employs this fuzzy reasoning for promoting morning after pill prescriptions: women tend to have sex on weekends. Maybe women also tend to have beer on Saturday nights. Does that mean their family doctors should load them up with six packs every time they come in for flu shots?"

Not only does his analogy not really make sense, I don't even really know what the context for the comment is.

what’s to prevent the pill from getting into the hands of the woman’s impressionable 13-year-old daughter, who sees the pill as a good excuse to "hook up" with a boy she barely knows?

Well... nothing, really. So what you do is you get her a decent sex education -- no-holds-barred body books as she's growing up, and then when she's old enough to be thinking sex is a good idea, a guide like The Guide To Getting It On, and maybe her very own Hitachi Magic Wand. Teenagers are teenagers, and there's no guarantees, but the more information you give her the more likely she's going to wait until she's ready and not a moment before.

"Will ACOG pay for the girl’s counseling when she discovers that the boy who took away her virginity is a stalker or 40 years old?"

Uh, riiiiight. That's pretty much pure scaremongering, not even pretending to be a logical argument.

10/7/2007 1:12:35 AM

T McGee

This dumbass has obviously never taken Plan B. If he had, he'd understand why something that causes 48 hours of insuppressable nausea isn't exactly the birth control women generally want.

7/20/2008 10:59:25 PM