Thanatoast
May 9, 2004, 03:08 PM
link (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=541&ncid=541&e=1&u=/ap/20040509/ap_on_he_me/morning_after_pill_1)
FDA May Reconsider Morning-After Pill
(AP) - Women's groups are accusing the Bush administration of putting politics before science in rejecting over-the-counter sales of morning-after birth control, even as the agency stressed that it will reconsider that decision if given more data. The FDA cited concern about young teenagers' use of emergency contraception without a doctor's guidance — overruling the agency's own scientific advisers, who had overwhelmingly backed easier access as a safe way to prevent thousands of abortions.
So here we have the FDA's own scientists recommending broader sales to prevent unwanted pregancy and lower abortions, and the White House claiming that the pill encourages teen sex.
A couple of issues, first, why won't the White House listen to its own angencies?
Second, they're not debating the effectiveness, safety, or even the use of the pill itself, they're concerned about the political issue of teen sex. Is this a responsible way to set conditions for drug approval?
Third, does the White House have any evidence that shows teen sex goes up with the introduction of the pill? Because there's plenty of evidence showing that pregnancies and abortions go down.
Fourth, what in the world is up with conservatives and sex? I've never understood this obsession with stopping all reference to and participation in sex. It doesn't make sense to me.
Fifth, there is *no* abortion with the use of this pill. It says right at the end of the article, it doesn't work if you're already pregnant.
So what is it the White House is trying to accomplish? Do they *truly* believe that if condoms, morning after pills, and abortions were banned that teenagers would stop having sex? Does this make any sense? More likely, I would think, it would simply create more teenage mothers, which conservatives dislike even *more* than teenage sex.
I don't get it. What do they want?
FDA May Reconsider Morning-After Pill
(AP) - Women's groups are accusing the Bush administration of putting politics before science in rejecting over-the-counter sales of morning-after birth control, even as the agency stressed that it will reconsider that decision if given more data. The FDA cited concern about young teenagers' use of emergency contraception without a doctor's guidance — overruling the agency's own scientific advisers, who had overwhelmingly backed easier access as a safe way to prevent thousands of abortions.
So here we have the FDA's own scientists recommending broader sales to prevent unwanted pregancy and lower abortions, and the White House claiming that the pill encourages teen sex.
A couple of issues, first, why won't the White House listen to its own angencies?
Second, they're not debating the effectiveness, safety, or even the use of the pill itself, they're concerned about the political issue of teen sex. Is this a responsible way to set conditions for drug approval?
Third, does the White House have any evidence that shows teen sex goes up with the introduction of the pill? Because there's plenty of evidence showing that pregnancies and abortions go down.
Fourth, what in the world is up with conservatives and sex? I've never understood this obsession with stopping all reference to and participation in sex. It doesn't make sense to me.
Fifth, there is *no* abortion with the use of this pill. It says right at the end of the article, it doesn't work if you're already pregnant.
So what is it the White House is trying to accomplish? Do they *truly* believe that if condoms, morning after pills, and abortions were banned that teenagers would stop having sex? Does this make any sense? More likely, I would think, it would simply create more teenage mothers, which conservatives dislike even *more* than teenage sex.
I don't get it. What do they want?
