Wrong argument: Stop taking on Plan B for its effects on women
There’s chatter going on around the blogosphere concerning the availability of Plan B over the counter. The best example, via fellow Cactus Alliance member Hot AZ It Gets, is from Cathi Herrod of the Center for Arizona Policy.
I’m going to have to warn my fellow pro-lifers here that this is an argument we need to abandon immediately. We’re not out here to protect people from themselves, but rather to protect living embryos who may be prevented from implanting in the uteral wall. If Plan B does not induce abortion, then it ought to be completely legal.Arizona State University’s Campus Health Service now dispenses “Plan B,” the morning after pill, without a prescription. These pills, which contain an ultra-high dosage of synthetic hormones, have the potential to prevent a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus, causing an abortion. The long-term health effects of taking high doses of hormones is still unknown, and unlike regular birth control pills, no physical exam is needed to obtain them. Since the “no-prescription” sales have begun, demand has already increased by 50 percent. The danger is compounded by the fact that young women are encouraged to stockpile extra doses of the morning after pill for future “emergency use.” No one has studied what effect repeated ultra-high dosages of synthetic hormones will have on a woman’s body, which sell for $40 per dose at Campus Health Services. Once again, those who claim to advocate for “women’s health” are doing nothing more than making a “healthy profit” at the expense of the women they purport to help!
Some studies apparently suggest that it doesn’t (see page 3). I certainly hope they’re right. And if they are, then make it legal and allow people to make their own choices on their own health when it doesn’t involve killing someone else. Government making such choices for the population only results in the individual’s inability to make such choices for him or herself.
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