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Pro-Abortion Groups Blast, Pro-Life Groups Praise FDA Decision |
Pro-Abortion Groups Blast, Pro-Life Groups Praise FDA Decision
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 29, 2005
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- As expected, groups on both sides of the
abortion debate are taking drastically different approaches to the decision
by the Food and Drug Administration late last week to postpone whether or
not to sell the morning after pills over the counter.
Abortion advocates are decrying the postponement, saying the FDA is going
back on its word.
"The Bush administration explicitly promised the U.S. Senate that the FDA
would stop dragging its feet and issue a decision by September 1," NARAL
said an in email to its members.
In July, Michael Leavitt, secretary for the Department of Health and Human
Services, sent a letter to members of the U.S. Senate saying the FDA would
make a decision by September. The letter came in response to a decision by
leading abortion advocates to hold up the nomination of Lester Crawford as
the FDA's commissioner.
"American women have waited more than two years for President Bush's FDA to
decide whether women can purchase the morning-after pill," NARAL said. "How
much longer do we have to wait?"
"By constantly delaying the decision, Bush's FDA is allowing a small number
of anti-birth control zealots to prescribe policy for women's birth-control
options," NARAL said Monday.
However, a group of pro-life doctors and OBGYNs said the FDA's decision to
not yet allow sales of the Plan B drug without a prescription was
appropriate.
The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists said
approval of the morning after pill for over the counter sales would be "bad
medicine" and "a disaster for many women, especially teenagers."
The medical group echoed concerns Crawford laid out when he announced the
indefinite postponement, saying that there is no way to enforce the
requirement that teenagers under the age of 16 still be required to obtain
the sometimes abortion-causing drugs with a prescription.
AAPLOG said claims that the morning after pill will reduce abortion and
pregnancy rates are false and pointed to two studies showing that, including
one in Scotland and another in San Francisco.
"Women in these studies were given the [pills] to take home and put on the
nightstand for immediate availability after unprotected sex," AAPLOG
explained. "But they had the same abortion rates and the same unintended
pregnancy rates as a control group of women" who had to buy the drugs on
their own through a doctor.
"This medication is a dangerous deception, since it encourages women to
trust it for contraception, but fails to reliably deliver on that promise,"
the physicians group concluded.
Printed from: http://www.lifenews.com/nat1573.html
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30 Aug 2005 09:32:56 AM |
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"the good Doctor" <apartment3l57@aol.com> AKA "J Young" wrote in message
news:TI-dnTFPI_x_RY7eRVn-pw@giganews.com...
Pro-Abortion Groups Blast, Pro-Life Groups Praise FDA Decision
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
August 29, 2005
<"J Young's" crap dumped>
Give it a rest, "J/ IBen".
You've been outed.
LC~ Poor 'lil troll "J" is still looking for a new trolling nick.
"Everyday a different computer, everyday a different Id"
"J Young/IBen/simonsez/fauxDoctor", etc.
Message-ID: <1124475530.860458.5110@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>
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