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RE: Court rules that pharmacists can refuse morning aft... - 11/17/2007 12:36:41 PM

MzD

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SEATTLE - A federal judge has suspended Washington state's requirement that pharmacists sell "morning-after" birth control pills, a victory for druggists who claim their moral objections to the drug are being bulldozed by the government.

In an injunction signed Thursday, U.S. District Judge Ronald Leighton said pharmacists can refuse to sell the morning-after pill if they refer the customer to another nearby source. Pharmacists' employers also are protected by the order.

The emergency contraception sold as Plan B is a high dose of a drug found in many regular birth-control pills. It can dramatically lower the risk of pregnancy if taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071109/ap_on_re_us/refusing_prescriptions

the problem I see is the morning after pill being named as birth control.......it's not the contraceptive pill/condoms etc which are birth "control".....I actually read in a magazine problem page, a woman writes in asking is it safe to have the morning after pill everytime she has a one night stand???........just looking at this quote and remembering that question.....well I think people need to actually descibe the morning after pill as it is.........not birth control.......if taken later than 72 hrs you can't take it, even taken properly it's success rate isn't high enough to be "birth control"...........it's a tablet that may stop the pregnancy, but it comes with lots of side effects.....

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RE: Court rules that pharmacists can refuse morning aft... - 11/17/2007 12:48:50 PM

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The side effects can be a bit.. questionable. The pill works via shoving a heavy dose of hormones into the woman's body; the intended effect is to alter her sexual organs surficiently enough to kill a fertilized egg within them, or to pass it, where it would die.

Since it doesn't always work, sometimes, the woman's just exposing the fetus to a bunch of hormones, which has been shown to cause birth defects (though, admittedly, this specific pill hasn't gone through trials; just, in general, a flood of medicinally-incuded hormones like this has been shown to cause a high rate of birth defect). I'm not educated enough on the specifics of the pill to understand the physical consquences for the woman taking it. As it's a lot of hormones.. I mean, it can't be great to take once, but I haven't heard single instances of it being unhealthy. For a woman who takes it regularly? I'm.. well, that sounds rather risky to me, but I'm not sure what effects it may have on her health. I have my doubts that anyone's all that positive at this point, though some of the side effects are probably documented by now.

As always, my objection to the pill stands on the basis of the pill being an abortion, killing an embryo which could've been a human being like anyone else here. To me, if a woman is willing to risk the effects on herself, that's her business. If she's willing to risk the effects on a child that fails to be aborted by the pill.. well, that's questionable; but since I already object to the pill, it's only redundant to consider how the woman is endangering the health of her possible newborn.

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