US Victory for Plan B!

[jadecat]

At long last!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14497678/

FDA OKs nonprescription ‘morning-after’ pill
Decision allows over-the-counter sale of Plan B for those 18 or older

Updated: 11:02 a.m. ET Aug. 24, 2006

WASHINGTON - 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 three-year effort to ease access to the emergency contraceptive.


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I'm more than a little on the Pro-Choice side of things- for those that didn't know. To mis-quote a familiar line- let's have every child be a wanted child. So along those lines, I think this is very good news for American women.

Comments

[kunphormyst.livejournal.com]

I am very much on the pro-choice side of things and I am overjoyed by this development.

[farmishtphoenix.livejournal.com]

I am very much on the women-control-their-own-bodies side of things, and this is fabulous news.

[mightyafrodite.livejournal.com]

About bloody time!!!

[mstab]

I think this is very good news. If this had happened before now, I might not have two teenage parents living with me right now. I hardly think she would have decided to have the baby over a quick pill that would remove her mistake.

As much as I dislike people being able to terminate a pregnancy so easily - why don't they just keep their legs closed in the first place? - it helps in so many areas. Less of a strain (we hope) on government-funded welfare type programs. Less unprepared parents rearing babies that wind up being hellions and murderers. I could go on and on.

[jaklumen.livejournal.com]

I have been a supporter of the 'morning after' (RU-486, correct?) pill for a long time, although I am sure many of my faith are not.

Miscarriages are not easy-- I have been there. But I believe if abortions are rare, legal, and safe, then this would be a more humane way to do it-- to do it early, than to have a surgerical procedure that is far more invasive and traumatizing.

I believe in abstinence before marriage, although from my experience, I know that is merely ideal, but not necessarily realistic. I believe that a marriage relationship provides a secure family structure when children do come along. I believe that aborting a pregnancy should be carefully (and prayerfully for those of faith) considered, but again, if it should be done, it should be done early and humanely.

I believe in birth control. For me personally to not do so would be irresponsible in my situation. We are poor, my wife is nearing 40, and I do not believe in welfare whoring (because that is where we are until Social Security goes through). Family planning and contraception should come before anything else, in my opinion. I know some do not believe in such, but there is nothing in my faith that I can see would prohibit me from restricting my progeny to those that I can care and provide for with the best of my means.

[jiffjenn.livejournal.com]

Hooray! I am also Pro-Choice when it comes to women's rights. Even though I am a catholic. Don't tell the Pope