- Shut Up and Fill the Prescription
- Mangling, Mishandling, and Misrepresentation of Science in the Plan B Debate (Part I)
- Mangling, Mishandling, and Misrepresentation of Science in the Plan B Debate (Part II)
- Plan B is Not Abortifacient
- Plan B: Not Abortifacient But Not a Panacea Either
- Plan B: Literature Review (Part I)
- Plan B: Literature Review (Part II)
As any regular reader of this blog is well aware, I’m strongly pro-life. However, I’m ticked off at my own movement right now because of crap like this [emphasis mine]:
"President George Bush shocked the pro-life movement with his support for over-the-counter access to abortion-drug Plan B, also known as the morning-after pill, for adults. However, Plan B ‘ought to require a prescription for minors,’ he said.
[…]
"’President Bush’s implied support of over-the-counter status for the abortion-causing drug Plan B is a betrayal of the pro-life principles he claims to support,’ said Stephen Peroutka, Esq., chairman of the National Pro-Life Action Center."
Let’s get with the program, people. Plan B is not abortifacient. Repeating "abortion" and "Plan B" in the same sentence over and over won’t make it so. As a devout Catholic, I’m no more a fan of Plan B than I am of condoms (or any other form of contraception), but since neither kill unborn children, there’s no just reason for banning them. Unless someone can provide evidence that Plan B causes abortions, I suggest we stop saying it does and move on to other matters. This is a poltical albatross.
[cross-posted at RedBlueChristian]
Update: Apparently, someone at Netscape.com saw fit to link to me as one of the "pro-life advocates [who] acknowledge that use of Plan B is not akin to abortion". I’m flattered by the publicity, but I really hope the inane and fruitless "conversation" going on in the comments over there doesn’t come here. I haven’t read such consistently belligerent and vapid comments since the last time I stopped by Eschaton. I don’t always agree with my readers, but I’m almost always appreciative of them and their ability to discuss matters reasonably and intelligently in the comboxes.
Update: Let Publius know whether you think I’m a "[d]ebunker of [a] commonly-held misconception or [an] advocate of netkookery".
Addendum: Serge at LTI Blog has begun a series of posts about Plan B.
- Emergency Contraception: A Review of the Literature
- Information from the Manufacturer
- Proposed Evidence of Post-Fertilization Effects
- Does it Work if Taken After Ovulation?
- No Morphological Changes Found in Endometrium
- EC: What is its Real Effectiveness?
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