Comments on: Liberal Lawyer: Bush Made Me Have An Abortion http://conservativedialysis.com/~mnick/wp/index.php/2006/06/05/liberal-lawyer-bush-made-me-have-an-abortion/ Removing Liberal Waste From The American Bloodstream Tue, 17 Apr 2012 21:30:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Nick http://conservativedialysis.com/~mnick/wp/index.php/2006/06/05/liberal-lawyer-bush-made-me-have-an-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-799 Nick Tue, 06 Jun 2006 21:17:39 +0000 http://conservativedialysis.com/~mnick/wp/index.php/2006/06/05/liberal-lawyer-bush-made-me-have-an-abortion/#comment-799 You are correct -- Plan B and RU486 are two different things. The post will be updated accordingly. You are correct — Plan B and RU486 are two different things. The post will be updated accordingly.

]]> By: PG http://conservativedialysis.com/~mnick/wp/index.php/2006/06/05/liberal-lawyer-bush-made-me-have-an-abortion/comment-page-1/#comment-797 PG Mon, 05 Jun 2006 19:35:34 +0000 http://conservativedialysis.com/~mnick/wp/index.php/2006/06/05/liberal-lawyer-bush-made-me-have-an-abortion/#comment-797 One more time for those of you who ride the short bus: Plan B is not RU-486. RU-486 causes an abortion, i.e. the death of a growing fetus. Plan B *prevents* pregnancy by keeping the ovaries from releasing an egg, and potentially by thickening the wall of the uterus so that a fertilized egg cannot attach to it. Plan B is a form of emergency contraception, not an abortifacient as the term is medically understood. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0605170224may17,1,7360684.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed" rel="nofollow">RU-486 coupled with a rare bacterium</a> may have caused the death of five North American women; Plan B was approved by the FDA in 1999 after having been available over the counter in Europe for years without any reported deaths. The more recent debate is over whether it should be available for over the counter use, because of the problem adverted to in the Washington Post piece: difficulty in reaching a doctor who can give a prescription. The FDA advisory panel that considered this issue voted 23-4 in favor of allowing over the counter dispensation of Plan B. The science of contraceptives is not perfectly understood, but either you do not know what you are talking about, in which case I recommend doing some reading before you post about these matters, or you do know what you're talking about and you are deliberately muddling RU-486 with Plan B as part of an overall <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/magazine/07contraception.html?ex=1149652800&en=c8ff9e0481c611e3&ei=5070" rel="nofollow">conservative strategy to make contraception contested ground</a> as well. One more time for those of you who ride the short bus: Plan B is not RU-486. RU-486 causes an abortion, i.e. the death of a growing fetus. Plan B *prevents* pregnancy by keeping the ovaries from releasing an egg, and potentially by thickening the wall of the uterus so that a fertilized egg cannot attach to it. Plan B is a form of emergency contraception, not an abortifacient as the term is medically understood. RU-486 coupled with a rare bacterium may have caused the death of five North American women; Plan B was approved by the FDA in 1999 after having been available over the counter in Europe for years without any reported deaths. The more recent debate is over whether it should be available for over the counter use, because of the problem adverted to in the Washington Post piece: difficulty in reaching a doctor who can give a prescription. The FDA advisory panel that considered this issue voted 23-4 in favor of allowing over the counter dispensation of Plan B.

The science of contraceptives is not perfectly understood, but either you do not know what you are talking about, in which case I recommend doing some reading before you post about these matters, or you do know what you’re talking about and you are deliberately muddling RU-486 with Plan B as part of an overall conservative strategy to make contraception contested ground as well.

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