"The measure — which passed Wednesday 34-27 — would allow girls and women to obtain the medication without a physician's visit or prescription and without parental consent regardless of the patient's age."

http://news.yahoo.com/fc/health/birth_control (short article)
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationw...0,1,81588.story (morning after pill not considered abortion article)

(Links found via Yahoo! News)

Since I'm not in NY, I hadn't heard of this until I saw it as a headliner on the front page of Yahoo!

Do you think that the pill is a step in the right direction (towards allowing women control over their bodies)?

Do you believe that access to such a pill will give women "peace of mind" if they are engaging in uncovered vaginal intercourse? (An obvious no-no from an STD standpoint if not for other reasons.)

Do you think that the pill is a step in the right direction (towards allowing women control over their bodies)?

Most of America (if I recall correctly about 57%) thinks abortions ok, but only under certain circumstances (a.k.a they have a criteria). Because this gets rid of the baby before even the first trimester begins, im fairly certain people as a whole wont object to this practice. Being that I don't consider embryos and fetuses human regardless of the trimester, I am of course for this.

Do you believe that access to such a pill will give women "peace of mind" if they are engaging in uncovered vaginal intercourse?

Well if it weren't for the pill, then they would just use condoms, so I don't see how this will increase sex.

I'm pro-life to the point of standing outside of supermarkets every Saturday morning handing out pictures of fetuses', going to a human chain in protest of Abortion clinics, etc., however I do not have one single ax to grind when it comes to the morning after pill.

Call me hypocritical but the morning after pill does not result in the death of a life. What it does is prevent a life from taking place. If proper means of birth control were not attained and a woman chooses to get a morning after pill as a precaution it is her option in which to do so. There is no screening test for this, when a female buys the pill she does not have to have a sonogram to show if there is development or not.

I am not saying ignorance is bliss, what I am saying is a potential less than twenty-four hour tissue development does not qualify as a life and thereby this is a wonderful step in the right direction to not only cut down on unneeded abortions but the ability for a woman's mind to be put to rest.




If peace of mind is needed I would recommend real birth control such as condoms and "the pill." It is more of a safety feature to unprotected sex in my opinion; but yes, I suppose on some plain it does provide a female a certain peace of mind in some instances.

Wonderful news. Thanks for posting that, Olympia!


Absolutely! It is about time someone took the lead in this. It would have to be New York or California as other states seem to follow their lead (sometimes years later). This will also prevent many abortions, I am sure.


I believe this is true also, particularly for that "one time" when the brain wasn't in full-function mode (hopefully few and far between). It will also be a goddess-send to all of the young college women who can't remember what they did at that frat party last night. But, as you mentioned, this is no protection from STIs. So that will limit the peace gained from knowing you aren't pregnant.

In the name of fairness, here's the story from an openly pro-life site:

Link

They're putting as negative a spin as possible on this, but I still think of this as good news. This is absolutely a step in the right direction. Note that "Plan B" will available only from a health professional, so it won't be like you can just pick it up like a candy bar.

I'm sure it will provide a little piece of mind, but I would also strongly caution everybody that this is certainly no excuse for irresponsible sexual behavior. "Plan B" is an emergency drug, which makes a very bad situation a little less bad.

Thanks for the link, Victoria.

Here is a quote from the story:
"I think it promotes unprotected sex ... ." -Republican Sen. Hugh Farley of Schenectady County

???

That seems like a bit of a leap, eh?

The Morning After Pill prevents conception within a short period of time. It does not allow a fertilized egg to attach to the uterous, thereby is eliminated/flushed much like an unfertilized egg. Wrongly named by the uneducated and religious as 'the abortion pill' , it is nothing of the sort. The egg never adheres, therefore there is no mutliplication of cells constituting a human life. 'IF' the egg is fertilized it passes rather than adhere and noone knows if the sperm meets egg, but the pill is taken to prohibit possible adherance and subsequent multiplication of cells. This is nothing more than a sperm and egg, flushed. The womans body often does this on its own. Every fertilized egg does not become a child.

The Morning after Pill is certainely not a form of birth control. It is emergency contraception in extreme cases of either rape or lack of control, either physically or emotionally at the time of intercourse, a mistake as it were.

I believe the legalization of the Morning after pill can have positive and negative consequences. For any woman who is afraid or ill-prepared for pregnancy in a night which she made an error in judgement, or was raped or coherced- it is a positive. If college or high school girls begin to believe they can correct repeated mistakes by taking pills, they are mistaken. The legalization MUST be followed up by education on the subject.

This legislation is a positive overall. It will reduce term abortions. Although I am pro-choice I am for any reasonable move to reduce the need for in-utero abortions, since that choice is a true hardship with surgical invasion.

As to the link. I did not see an unrealistic point of view since they are saying basically that there is no age limit and no parental consent, understood.
I wonder all the time about parental consent issues. I have 2 boys. If I had a girl Id be concerned. Im liberal so I feel Id understand and give her her rights to either or..but conservatives and their right to life issues, forcing young girls to have babies -after they the parents-negated sex ed in schools and condoms and left kids with no options but some baloney abtinence program they mostly cannot relate to-, its just -well-injust to the kids. Out of touch to the extreme.
I guess you get what you wish for, and have yourself a teenage pregnancy.

Something has got to give-either sex eduacation or teen pregnancy! Make the choice!