The Pill That Kill–Available at a Doctor Near You
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Nathan_Tabor] Nathan Tabor Imagine going to your doctor and being offered a pillnot because you were sick, or in any danger of becoming sick. Noyoure friendly physician is simply giving you drugs because youre a woman. If that sounds like a Hitchcock horror story to yoube prepared. Gynecologists around the country are embarking on a weird medical experiment that could have serious repercussions for womens health. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has decided it wont wait for the Food and Drug Administration to approve over-the-counter sales of the so-called morning after pilla pill which is supposed to help women who are harboring regret over a sexual encounter the night before. Of course, it doesnt matter that the FDA is hesitant to give the pills out like candy because it doesnt want to promote promiscuity among young people. Also, some leading medical experts say that the morning after pill doesnt just prevent pregnancyit can also kill a child who has already been conceived in her mothers womb. No, ACOG wont let the facts stand in the way of its misguided idea of scientific progress. In fact, the gynecologists group employs this fuzzy reasoning for promoting morning after pill prescriptions: women tend to have sex on weekends. Maybe women also tend to have beer on Saturday nights. Does that mean their family doctors should load them up with six packs every time they come in for flu shots? The fact is, the pro-abortion contingent of ACOG is running scared. Pharmacists throughout the country have said they dont want to dispense the morning after pill, also known as emergency contraception, because they have religious and moral objections to it. The abortionists know that, if they can get women hooked on the morning after pill, theyll have more support for their agendawhich includes abortion any time for any reason, anywhere. Its interesting to note that some experts have come to the conclusion that there really isnt a great demand for the morning after pill. In other words, pharmacies are not going to go out of business for refusing to stock it. So the only way for big drug companies to sell the morning after pill and other such concoctions is to market them directly to doctors. Every time a woman comes into a gynecologists office, ACOG wants the doctor to offer her advance prescriptions of the morning after pill. But it is apparently not enough to simply make the offersome women are reporting that their gynecologists are insisting that they take the prescriptioneven if they say repeatedly that they dont want it. The doctors urge them, its good for a year! This kind of scenario makes a mockery out of the phrase pro-choice. In a situation like this, how can anyone not conclude that pro-choice is really pro- abortion? Apparently, ACOG sees no reason for gynecologists to inform their patients that the morning after pill can cause abortionseven if some women have strong moral objections to abortion. For ACOG, the pill is a simple solution to the estimated 2.7 million unplanned pregnancies that occur each year. But the fact of the matter is, a number of us were the result of unplanned pregnancies. You dont have to be plannedor even wanted by your natural parentsin order to make a difference in this world. Every human life is precious from the moment of conceptionand no dictate from ACOG can change that. Doctors routinely tell pregnant women not to take any medication during their pregnancies for fear that it will harm their unborn children. If a pregnant woman cant take an aspirin, how can doctors assume that its safe for her to take the morning after pill? What if the pill fails and the woman remains pregnant? Or what if the woman takes the pill when shes already six weeks along? And whats to prevent the pill from getting into the hands of the womans impressionable 13- year-old daughter, who sees the pill as a good excuse to hook up with a boy she barely knows? Will ACOG pay for the girls counseling when she discovers that the boy who took away her virginity is a stalker or 40 years old? Any doctor who thinks nothing of dispensing a pill that can kill has no place in the healing arts. Whether an abortion is surgical or chemical, it is still a tragedy for both mother and child. Copyright 2006 by Nathan Tabor Nathan Tabor is a conservative political activist based in Kernersville, North Carolina. He has a bachelors degree in psychology and a masters degree in public policy. 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