Nathan Tabor on Plan B | The Ashford Zone

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! THE MORNING AFTER PILL IS COMING! IT’S A-COMIN’ I TELLS YA!

That’s Nathan Tabor, trying to convince his readers that the Plan B pill, recently approved by the FDA and soon to be available over the counter (with proper I.D.), spells bad news for the general health care of women in this country. Enjoy Nathan’s fact-free "Morning After Mania":

Forget the threat of terrorism…the price of gas…or the struggle for families to make the monthly mortgage payments.

No, the issue on the minds of many newspaper editorial writers is whether women can get pills.

Nathan would rather talk about these other things, you see, but he can’t. Those damn newspaper editorial writers are making write on this particular topic.

At a time when some medical experts are wondering whether our population is, in fact, over-medicated, a number of editorial boards are demanding that the so-called morning-after pill be offered over the counter to women who have regrets about their sexual encounters of the night before.

Well, yyyyesss — and raped women, too.

Even if you don’t buy the notion that the morning-after pill can end an innocent human life — or even if you don’t care if it does — you should at least care about what impact easy access to this post-coital pill could have on women’s health.

Oh, boy. Do tell.

Any woman who has taken the traditional birth control pill knows that there are possible side effects — everything from the possibility of stroke to weight gain. The idea that it’s A-OK for women to ingest "Plan B" without ever expecting to encounter any negative health effects is ludicrous.

Well, that’s true. With any drug — even aspirin — there are possible negative side effects. But what are the negative health effects relating to "Plan B", Nathan? Got any specifics?

Planned Parenthood, the largest purveyor of abortions in America, issued a statement claiming that Plan B "holds the potential for improving women’s health if the FDA keeps its word this time" and permits over-the-counter access.

Hmmm. Okay, and why are they wrong?

But the fact of the matter is that the morning-after pill is actually playing Russian Roulette with women’s health.

Wow! Russian Roulette! They sound really dangerous!!! But WHY, Nathan? What makes them so dangerous? Stop teasing me, man!

As Concerned Women for America — a group which has more female support than the radical National Organization for Women — has stated, "The prescription process protects women’s health."

Obviously, they don’t know about the Russian Roulette thing. Tell me why "Plan B" is so dangerous so I can send an urgent letter to Concerned Women for America.

At a time when the Food and Drug Administration has been forced to re-examine the safety of the abortion pill RU-486, it seems odd to throw caution to the wind and remove some of the regulatory protections that could prevent women from being hurt by the morning-after pill.

Yes, yes, yes! It DOES seem odd. Why would women want to hurt themselves by contracting — um — what were the negative health effects again, Nathan? Oh, you haven’t told us yet. Okay.

A number of individuals have also pointed out that Plan B promotes promiscuity. Promiscuity leads to sexually-transmitted diseases which pose a serious threat to the health of young women. It is irresponsible for the leaders of the abortion lobby and the news media to promote non-prescription use of a drug that could conceivably cause our STD rates to soar.

Wait.

That’s it? A number of individuals (Who, Nathan? The guys you shoot pool with?) think that Plan B promotes promiscuity? Aren’t the people who will be using Plan B the most already promiscuous?

And then there’s the key question of enforcement.

But what are the negative health effects of Plan B, Nathan? Have we abandoned that topic?

You can say that the drug will only be marketed and sold to those women over age 18, but any clever teenager who knows how to lobby an older sibling or friend to buy cigarettes or booze for her will easily gain access to Plan B. And what’s to say that teen girls will not start binging on morning-after pills, once they become as common as KitKats on drug store shelves?

What, are they chocolate flavored or something? Do they get you high? Why would teen girls start binging on morning-after pills?

As Concerned Women’s Wendy Wright stated, "The person who buys the drug is not necessarily the person who will take the drug. What the FDA would have to consider is a foolproof plan to keep proxies from buying the drug and giving it to adolescents."

And let’s be clear — those proxies could include sexual predators trying to exploit teenage girls.

Wait. Is Nathan saying what I think he’s saying?

Nathan, aren’t these "sexual predators" of teenage girls likely to be, you know, male? Don’t you think that if, say, a middle-age man goes into Walgreens and tries to persuade the clerk to give him some Plan B’s, that might set off a red flag — even among the stupidest of Walgreen employees?

And let’s be clear on another point: There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that the drive for over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill are part of the abortion lobby’s propaganda campaign. The lobby knows that public support for contraception is much higher than public support of abortion — hence, its insistence on calling the morning-after pill "emergency contraception."

"Plenty of evidence" = [crickets]

By the way, doesn’t effective contracrption hurt the "abortion industry" that you complain so loudly about? After all, women will no longer have to undergo expensive and invasive abortion procedures; instead, they can just take a pill. So why would the abortion lobby be in favor of this?

But, one has to wonder — If groups such as Planned Parenthood are in the business of family planning, why would there be millions of emergencies requiring a pill to resolve? What Planned Parenthood is really promoting is irresponsibility, carelessness, and, in the end, surgical abortion.

So, um, Planned Parenthood — by promoting a pill — are promoting surgical abortion? Nathan, that makes no sense.

Because, if a woman still finds herself pregnant after taking the morning-after pill, she’ll be lured into thinking that the only solution to her problem is to abort her baby the old-fashioned way.

Well, I suggest that if a woman takes a morning-after pill, she probably has no moral reservations about getting an abortion anyway. So query how much "luring" will be involved.