tfast
> 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.
>
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