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There’s tons wrong with this article…
Commentary: Plan B risky for 17-year-old girls – CNN.com

Now keep in mind birth control pills require a doctor’s prescription, but a drug that is more powerful doesn’t?

Well, actually, the reason birth control requires a prescription is that it is something you take continually. Thats very different than a one-time event.

I question that, when we are cutting a doctor out of the decision to administer a powerful drug. Timing is essential to the drug’s effectiveness, Plan B supporters say, so getting parents and doctors involved would unnecessarily delay the teen’s ability to pop the pill the “morning after.” Does it really take that long to get a prescription?

Does it really take 72 hours to get a prescription? It can take that long just to get to talk to a doctor. And with the insanity surrounding these issues, it might take significantly longer.

Some argue that a girl can get an abortion without parental notification in some states, so why not Plan B? But just because those states got it wrong by leaving parents out of the loop doesn’t mean others should follow suit.

This might be a valid comparison IF Plan B actually induced abortion. As a rule, it simply prevents implantation.

Here’s some perspective for you: In most states, minors can’t get a tattoo, body piercings or go to a tanning salon without a parent’s permission, but we are going to leave them alone to take Plan B.

Yet we SOMEHOW allow 17 year olds to buy Tylenol. Oh, also, tattoos and piercings aren’t, y’know, medicine.

But let’s get back to the first point: We are making it available to high school girls. We’re enabling teenagers to act carelessly with an easy way out. During a recent discussion on my show, Jackie Morgan MacDougall, supervising producer of the Web site Momlogic.com, said it best. “Teenagers are known for thinking they’re untouchable and here we are saying that they can continue to do that and that there aren’t any consequences.” With Plan B, they can do it now and deal with it later.

Yes, obviously, if your daughter is a whore and gets pregnant, then thats the punishment she deserves. Thats basically the, dare I call it, subtext here. Yes, MAKE THOSE KIDS PAY!!! The best thing is that this kind of tough love doesn’t just hurt the daughter in question. It really dicks over the eventual child. NICE!

Korman didn’t stop there. He asked the FDA to consider making Plan B available to girls of any age. That’s a slippery slope and what’s worse, the ones who will fall are our daughters.

All I can say to this, and most of the article, is if your children behave in a way that you consider wrong or immoral, or whatever, exactly who’s fault is it? Is it the medical community for releasing a drug that helps girls not wreck their lives, or…
Oh, and if you honestly don’t see the difference between an abortion and preventing a pregnancy (btw, the process that Plan B induces happens naturally all the time), well, you should probably move back to 1820.