ok, I just want to rant about something... its not that bad, I promise
Ok, so this article was in the columbian on friday, august 25th... it was on the front page, first story of the day.... which I love.
The FDA has granted Barr Pharmaceuticals the approval to sell the morning-after pill to women over 18 WITHOUT a perscription. There are currently nine states in the US where Plan B is available without perscription. I am happy to say that Washington is one of them.... now, ok, obviously, the article had comments from both supporters and opponents of Plan B. I have two major issues with some of the comments made by the opponents.....
issue #1:
"We are very, very concerned about the health impacts on women who will be getting this drug without a doctor's guidance," said William Beckman, executive director of the Illinois Right to Life Committee.
Now does anyone who knows me have ANY idea why that general comment would just PISS ME OFF? Its what the guy actually said, its that A GUY SAID IT. Honestly, I don't know how many times I am going to have to say this.... when a guy can conceive a child and carry it and nurture it with his body until it is ready to survive on its own, he needs to SHUT THE FUCK UP. He should not serve or be the executive on ANY right to life committee or anything like that. I am not saying that i would ever get an abortion, I just don't want some GUY campaigning for me to not even HAVE the CHOICE about something that is concerning my body! yeah, did all of you asshole guys get that??? MY. MOTHERFUCKING. GODDAMNED. BODY. not yours! so shut up!
Issue #2:
Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst at Focus on the Family, complained, "Over-the-counter status for Plan B--regardless of an age requirement--is an invitation for adult men to pressure underage girls to have sex with the promise of an easily accessible magic pill to prevent or abort a pregnancy."
Ok, I actually have two issues with this quote.... first off, the morning-after pill DOES NOT ABORT A PREGNANCY. honestly, people, read the goddamned facts!!! its science for crying out loud! You have to take the damn thing within 72 hours of unprotected sex. All it is is like, 3 doses of birth control. And if you ARE pregnant at the time that you take it, it doesn't do anything to ABORT the fetus. god! I just want to scream! does Plan B PREVENT pregnancy? YES! Abort? NO!
my second issue with this quote is that the dumb bitch automatically assumes that old men are going to seduce teenage girls. Um, hi, if your teenage daughter is stupid enough to sleep with a dirty old man then you have bigger problems than her getting a morning-after dosage. you might need to talk to your daughter about her not being such a skank. And if your dumb skanky daughter DOES sleep with this dirty old man, let's hope the dumb bitch remembers to tell the old bastard to use a condom so she doesn't get some skanky STD.
I do like that the article printed that Plan B helped to prevent an estimated 100,000 unintended pregnancies and prevents over 51,000 abortions each year. For all those dumb people who want to take away our "right to choose", they claim that abortions are inhumane and awful and blah, blah, blah.... so shut the fuck up about Plan B, ok? JUST SHUT UP.
ok, i am done... wow, think about how much that would have been if I would have just typed something that long for my tons of papers that I have to have done by morning. oh well. I needed a distraction.
The FDA has granted Barr Pharmaceuticals the approval to sell the morning-after pill to women over 18 WITHOUT a perscription. There are currently nine states in the US where Plan B is available without perscription. I am happy to say that Washington is one of them.... now, ok, obviously, the article had comments from both supporters and opponents of Plan B. I have two major issues with some of the comments made by the opponents.....
issue #1:
"We are very, very concerned about the health impacts on women who will be getting this drug without a doctor's guidance," said William Beckman, executive director of the Illinois Right to Life Committee.
Now does anyone who knows me have ANY idea why that general comment would just PISS ME OFF? Its what the guy actually said, its that A GUY SAID IT. Honestly, I don't know how many times I am going to have to say this.... when a guy can conceive a child and carry it and nurture it with his body until it is ready to survive on its own, he needs to SHUT THE FUCK UP. He should not serve or be the executive on ANY right to life committee or anything like that. I am not saying that i would ever get an abortion, I just don't want some GUY campaigning for me to not even HAVE the CHOICE about something that is concerning my body! yeah, did all of you asshole guys get that??? MY. MOTHERFUCKING. GODDAMNED. BODY. not yours! so shut up!
Issue #2:
Carrie Gordon Earll, senior bioethics analyst at Focus on the Family, complained, "Over-the-counter status for Plan B--regardless of an age requirement--is an invitation for adult men to pressure underage girls to have sex with the promise of an easily accessible magic pill to prevent or abort a pregnancy."
Ok, I actually have two issues with this quote.... first off, the morning-after pill DOES NOT ABORT A PREGNANCY. honestly, people, read the goddamned facts!!! its science for crying out loud! You have to take the damn thing within 72 hours of unprotected sex. All it is is like, 3 doses of birth control. And if you ARE pregnant at the time that you take it, it doesn't do anything to ABORT the fetus. god! I just want to scream! does Plan B PREVENT pregnancy? YES! Abort? NO!
my second issue with this quote is that the dumb bitch automatically assumes that old men are going to seduce teenage girls. Um, hi, if your teenage daughter is stupid enough to sleep with a dirty old man then you have bigger problems than her getting a morning-after dosage. you might need to talk to your daughter about her not being such a skank. And if your dumb skanky daughter DOES sleep with this dirty old man, let's hope the dumb bitch remembers to tell the old bastard to use a condom so she doesn't get some skanky STD.
I do like that the article printed that Plan B helped to prevent an estimated 100,000 unintended pregnancies and prevents over 51,000 abortions each year. For all those dumb people who want to take away our "right to choose", they claim that abortions are inhumane and awful and blah, blah, blah.... so shut the fuck up about Plan B, ok? JUST SHUT UP.
ok, i am done... wow, think about how much that would have been if I would have just typed something that long for my tons of papers that I have to have done by morning. oh well. I needed a distraction.