[lbo-talk] "Plan B, " emergency contraception, why the right hates it

[B.]

tfast wrote:

"What no diagram?"


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Har har. I think I chose a poor teaser for what really
is an excellent blog entry at Pharyngula. The entry
details how a major goal of the right is control of
the female body, not preserving "the sanctity of
life."

To wit:

"[Plan B contraception] is a form of birth control
that tells the woman's ovaries to hold off on
releasing any eggs for a short while. It's called
emergency contraception, because it is used by a woman
who has, for whatever reason (rape, a broken condom,
misplaced enthusiasm, second thoughts, anything) had
unwanted sperm in her reproductive tract, and she
wants to make sure that this isn't the moment her
ovaries happen to pop a follicle.

[...]

Plan B is not an abortion.

Plan B doesn't help if one is already pregnant, and it
doesn't affect any implanted zygotes. Pregnant women
produce progesterone naturally.

Plan B gives women the ability to control, to a
limited extent, when they will expel a gamete. In
purely reproductive terms, it's a bit like a male's
ability to control when he will ejaculate, or expel
his gametes. That's it. No fertilized zygotes are
involved, so that level of the birth control debate
isn't even relevant. It's simple, responsible, and
safe. You'd have to be insane to object to Plan B."


That would've been better than me including the pssage
about the diagram - heh.

-B.