Morning-after pill for sale in advance

[Melanie_]

Ahh that media.

The media isn't a friend of anyone, I just prefer to ignore it as much as I can. They have agendas and commerical spots to sell and sex does it. That's why it's there.

Yes, but you aren't raising preteens and teens (as far as I know) who are exposed to it and pick up on confusing messages.

One response I could have is to unplug everything in the house and not let them be exposed. I try instead to defuse the messages with a healthy attitude about their bodies and sexuality, and a sense of personal responsibility - we may disagree on the merits of birth control as a measure of responsibility, though.

[geoffrey]

Ahh that media.

The media isn't a friend of anyone, I just prefer to ignore it as much as I can. They have agendas and commerical spots to sell and sex does it. That's why it's there.

Yes, but you aren't raising preteens and teens (as far as I know) who are exposed to it and pick up on confusing messages.

One response I could have is to unplug everything in the house and not let them be exposed. I try instead to defuse the messages with a healthy attitude about their bodies and sexuality, and a sense of personal responsibility - we may disagree on the merits of birth control as a measure of responsibility, though.

Nope, not raising teens. I'm probably closer to their age then yours. That's definitely the right approach to the situation in my opinion too. I'd just personally be concerned advocating something like the pill over condoms because of the lack of STD protection. It may be easy to just say, oh don't worry about it this time, when your already 'protected.' That's my concern with this approach, and I think it could be beind the skyrocketing STD rates in our societies.

[Drea]

Condoms can fall off or break.

Do you see on the package where it says: "You must pull your penis out of the vagina while it is still hard or your condom will fall off inside the vagina"? Is that anywhere on the package? Or what about the poor guy who mistakenly buys a size large...

Anyway, condoms don't always prevent pregnancy and they do nothing to prevent herpes as the herpes sores are usually on the outside of the genitalia, the parts which "bump together" during sex.

A combination of the pill and condoms is still the best protection going -- aside from abstinance, which is just as quaint as wringer washers.

BTW, Melanie, bc pills don't cause bitchiness (PMS) in fact, they lessen or eliminate it. I was happy as a lark on the bc pill for 15 years. I thought PMS was something wimpy women made up in their heads -- until I went off the pill, now for one week a month I am the bitch from hell!

[Melanie_]

BTW, Melanie, bc pills don't cause bitchiness (PMS) in fact, they lessen or eliminate it. I was happy as a lark on the bc pill for 15 years. I thought PMS was something wimpy women made up in their heads -- until I went off the pill, now for one week a month I am the bitch from hell!

We had different experiences, I guess. But when it comes to PMS now, I bet I can take you on! I just repeat my favourite mantra, though:

Being In Total Control, Honey!

[Black Dog]

FDA approves "morning after" pill

The Food and Drug Administration today approved over-the-counter sales of the “morning-after” contraceptive pill to women 18 and older, resolving one of the most contentious issues in the agency's 100-year history.

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Anti-abortion groups strongly opposed Barr's application to switch Plan B from prescription to over-the-counter status, saying that the medicine is an abortion pill whose widespread availability could lead to an increase in sexually transmitted diseases.

Abortion rights advocates pushed equally hard to get the application approved, contending that easy access to Plan B would sharply reduce the nearly 1 million abortions performed each year in the United States.

Both sides are wrong, studies suggest. Couples in the United States have so much unprotected sex (half of all pregnancies are unplanned) that even if the pills were passed out like lollipops, they would be unlikely to cause a major change in abortion and disease rates.

"Emergency contraceptives don't work if, like condoms, they're left in the drawer," said Dr. James Trussell, director of the office of population research at Princeton University. "And studies show that even if women have the pills on hand, the drawer is where they remain."

So perhaps the solution is more education about the utility of contraceptives.

[FTA Lawyer]

Yes. I know. I'm not against it sheesh. Just worried what effect this has on my health care costs later on. I don't want to be paying for other people's easily preventable mistakes and constant irresponsiblity.

Relax, I'm not saying you were against it. It just doesn't seem like the kind of thing that one would take frequently. And your repeated use of the word "constantly" leads me to beleive that the only people who take this are irrespopnsible sluts who screw like bunnies pop these pills like Pez. In other words, you might not be against it, but your definitely judging anyone who would need it. As for the cost issue: mistakes happen and I'd rather pay for that than cover the social costs of an unwanted kid.

Have a limit like any insurance plan would... you get it twice a year, more than that, and you do hard labour for it? Shouldn't be my money funding people's irresponsibility.

PLEASE tell me this pun is intended...LMAO!!!!!

FTA

[geoffrey]

Have a limit like any insurance plan would... you get it twice a year, more than that, and you do hard labour for it? Shouldn't be my money funding people's irresponsibility.

PLEASE tell me this pun is intended...LMAO!!!!!

FTA

I wish it was intended.

[Black Dog]

Supporting use of the morning after pill... I don't know if that is wise, though I wouldn't question your judgement. If it were an emergency, yes.

But isn't it sending the wrong message to be telling kids that no matter what you do, you can be responsiblity free with just a little pill? Maybe it's this zero responsibility attitude that is behind the spread of AIDS and other STD's that's skyrocketing in teens and young adults these days.

I think the appplications of the emergency contraceptive pill, birth control and condoms are failry self-evident. If people dont know what hey are for, then the key is educating the users, not restricting the availability of the contraceptives. If someone is getting the wrong message about what the morning afte rpill can do, that's not the pill's fault.

Not that the Birth Control pill prevents AIDS either, just gives people another reason not to use a condom.

Is the pill and now the morning after pill behind the increase in STD's?

Again: a lack of education is the problem. Comprehensive sex education, not misinformation.