Posted by
Bruce Armstrong on Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:29:50 AM
Cross-posted at
Ordinary Everyday Christian:
Another left turn by a "conservative" administration, this time by Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, acting commissioner of the Food & Drug Administration and an appointee of our "pro-life" president:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Women may buy the morning-after pill without a prescription - but only with proof they're 18 or older, federal health officials ruled Thursday, capping a contentious 3-year effort to ease access to the emergency contraceptive.
Girls 17 and younger still will need a doctor's note to buy the pills, called Plan B, the Food and Drug Administration told manufacturer Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc. (BRL).
The compromise decision is a partial victory for women's advocacy and medical groups that say eliminating sales restrictions could cut in half the nation's 3 million annual unplanned pregnancies.
This shouldn't really be a surprise, though - it was earlier this week that "pro-life" President Bush declared his support for the morning-after pill.
Roman Catholic Blog sums up the matter quite well: " 'Plan B' is a euphemism for abortion in a pill."
So now we have a new, federally approved way to kill more babies - as if the million to million-and-a-half we've been killing each year weren't enough.
Let me leave you with this thought: As we approach the fifth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, which killed almost 3,000 people, remember that, on average, the American abortion industry kills 3,000 people-to-be every day.
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