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...Partial Birth Abortion Ban is another Orwellian innovation. Don’t waste your time leafing through medical textbooks for a description of partial birth abortion. The term is a political fabrication used to conjure a false image of crying babies being killed by evil doctors. The bill’s title loosely refers to an extremely rare medical procedure that is used as a last resort in the second or third trimester of a pregnancy, mostly when the fetus is already dead or when the mother’s life is in danger. Women’s rights advocates...
...morning-after" pill (its more common name) is essentially a high dose of the hormones in conventional birth control pills. If taken within 72 hours of intercourse, emergency contraception can reduce a woman’s risk of becoming pregnant by between 75 and 99 percent. Like regular birth control pills, it inhibits ovulation, fertilization and implantation—but will not affect an existing pregnancy. The Alan Guttmacher Institute estimates that 51,000 abortions were prevented in 2000 due to better access to and better knowledge of emergency contraception...
Several months ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considered a proposal to make emergency contraception over the counter and place this birth control right on pharmacy shelves. Yet despite its potential to reduce teen pregnancy, politics trumped rationality and an organization that was created to keep partisanship out of important medical decisions caved in under political pressure. In a letter to the FDA, 44 members of Congress wrote, "We urge you to reject the petition currently before you to make the morning-after pill as accessible to our nation's teenage daughters as aspirin or hair spray." Apparently, these...
When it comes to pregnancy prevention, high school and college females have always been the victims of these kinds of morality policies. While the FDA approved the birth control pill in 1960, state laws and local policies made it nearly impossible for a single woman to obtain a prescription. And until the late 1960s, it was actually illegal for an unmarried woman under 21 to obtain the pill without consent from her parents. Sex—or more accurately—safe sex was considered inappropriate in the eyes of the government for single gals. Those who violated these social...
When it comes to pregnancy prevention, high school and college females have always been the victims of these kinds of morality policies. While the FDA approved the birth control pill in 1960, state laws and local policies made it nearly impossible for a single woman to obtain a prescription. And until the late 1960s, it was actually illegal for an unmarried woman under 21 to obtain the pill without consent from her parents. Sex—or more accurately—safe sex was considered inappropriate in the eyes of the government for single gals. Those who violated these social...