Make Sure Women Can Get Their Prescription for Birth Control Filled!

It's common sense that women should have ready access to their doctor-prescribed birth control. Unfortunately, the anti-choice movement, spearheaded by groups like Pharmacists for Life, disagrees.

According to Karen Brauer, president of Pharmacists for Life, birth control pills are out of bounds while Viagra prescriptions are not. She won't fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill and has lectured women about daily birth control pills. Yet she readily fills Viagra prescriptions and has claimed, "I helped a whole lot of old married men get lucky."

We want Congress to change all that. The bipartisan Access to Legal Pharmaceuticals Act would ensure that every woman in every state can get her prescription for birth control filled, whether or not an individual pharmacist has an objection.

Support this commonsense measure by signing the petition!

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/230936578</FONT></FONT>

 

i dont understand why pro life people would be against birth control or plan b as it would prevent and decrease the number of abortions.

 

Because a lot of them believe that sex is only for procreation.

 

There is also a false urban legend that both the standard BC pill and plan B occasionaly act as abortifacients. This is false, but is widely believed.

 

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for posting this!! It is horrible that some women are being denied the right to take birth control. Haven't we fought for many years for our rights? I signed it and i'm passing it along!

 

My doctor told me that one.

 

That isn't an urban myth. Some prevent fertilization, while others abort the embryo before it gets implanted

 

neither abort an embryo. They both PREVENT pregnancy before it occurs.

 

which birth control are you talking about spooner, because I don't know of any regular daily birth control that does that.

To the OP:
I understand that the right of freedom of religion and what not needs to be protected, and that's fine, but a pharmacist has no right to place her personal values/beliefs on someone like that, that's wrong.
I don't agree that they aren't required to fill birth control pills though, BECAUSE that forces beliefs down people's throats.

The theory these people have is all wrong. If they are pro-life, they should understand that birth control is a good thing in decreasing the number of abortions performed each year.

And if the government or whatever says it's okay for them to deny filling a perscription, whatever, but they should NOT be allowed to advise someone against taking their pills because of their moral beliefs. It's unprofessional and wrong.

If you want to be "Jesus" and teach people about what you believe *rolls eyes* take it elsewhere outside of your career, or get a different job.

I can't stand people who are religious to that extent who fail to realize that no matter WHAT their beliefs are, the whole world cannot and will not change just because they feel that way.

Nothing bothers me more than people who can't shut their mouth when they need to about shit like that.

And another thing, religious freedom, great, but the idea of religious freedom gets taken too far to the point where it creates less religious freedom for anyone believes in different. You can NOT mix politics and religion like that. It is NOT safe.

And in the U.S. it's not even about religious freedom, it's about preserving christianity. Because most of the country is christian they fail to remember that other religions do fucking exist here.

It pisses me off.

 

Oh also, I think religion should be a responsible decision. Too many people are irresponsible about it, like this, and I think the biggest responsibility that comes along with choosing a religion and being a part of that, is to remember that other religions and beliefs exist, and to be PREPARED to accept that.

I know far too many gung ho christians that literally SLAM other religions, to this day, and continuously try to argue with those who are not the same religion as they are. That's not "teaching" it's irresponsible, and it's inhumane.

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Ok, I'm shutting up now because I have my period and I could rant all day about this one thing.

 

I was referring to emergency contraception - specifically Mifepristone.

 

So what, Spooner? Women have miscarriages all the time. Sexually active women spontaneously abort fertilized eggs many many times over through their reproductive years. What's the difference between the body rejecting a fertilized egg or taking a drug that aids the rejection? Either way, an unwanted fertilized egg is booted from the uterus.

 

Y'all are claiming Emergency Contraception isn't an abortifacient, when some varieties quite clearly are by-definition embryo killahs.

I didn't say anything about the morality of it, so don't try to pick a fight simply because you don't like me.

 

I never said anywhere that I didn't like you. I dislike few people on these forums..and only one *cough* Huck Finnladen *cough* that I detests. And I'm not picking a fight. Disagreeing with someone is not disliking them. I don't really know you from Joe and you've never done anything shitty to me offline therefore I have no reason to dislike you. I don't think about you enough to put forth any negative feeling towards you, personally.

I just don't understand why you are so adament about driving home the point that one drug MAY be an "embryo killah"..if it isn't a moral issue for you. Obviously it is or you 1)wouldn't bother posting on this subject 2)make two posts trying to argue that BC is definitely an abortifacient depending on the particular drug.

BTW, Embryo Killah should be a band name. You could make millions one day with that.

 

An abortion is the removal of an IMPLANTED EMBRYO/FETUS from the uterus.

The morning after pill prevents IMPLANTATION so therefore it is NOT an abortifacient.

Only one out of every three fertilized eggs results in a pregnancy. Most don't make it to implantation due to a prosterone issue in the mother that cycle. And most EC pills just mimic what would happen if a mother had a progesterone issue that cycle.

 

Also, on another note. I don't feel that it's right to force pharmacists to fill BC/EC prescriptions. However, I think that if there is a pharmacist on staff that refuses to fill it, there should also be a pharmacist on staff that will. That way, no one's right to religion/health care is ignored.

 

I figured that was the cut of your jib.

 

Oh boohoo, I called you an idiot during one heated thread. All the people that I have called idiots at one point and have called me one over the last 5 years..please raise your hands!

I suspect nearly everyone has raised their hand. Childish banter does NOT constitute not liking someone. I have called my sister an idiot and she has called me a stupid bitch..does that mean we hate each other? No, it doesn't.

Relax, guy.

 

"Fertilized eggs" don't implant. 1-week-old human embryos do:

http://www.ortl.org/publications/articles.php?articleID=156

The "morning after pill" clearly has the potential to kill embryos:

http://www.theannals.com/cgi/data/36/3/465/DC1/1

 

Emergency contraception does not induce abortion.

Mifepristone is the abortion pill...totally different from emergency contraception. It is used when you are ALREADY pregnant, not just right after unprotected sex.