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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (262826)	12/1/2005 1:29:24 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574269

Arguing an exception is time consuming. Amy tried to play the same game. The parent notification laws on abortion are argued on the same grounds. We must allow all 14 year old girls to get an abortion without notifying their parents since we must write the law to allow a 14 year old girl to get an abortion at 3 o'clock in the morning because her parents cannot be located.... An average of 1500000 abortions are performed each year with 80% of them on unmarried women. Medically necessitated abortions are the exception and should not be used as the argument for the mainstream wholesale slaughter of unborn children.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (262826)	12/1/2005 2:13:53 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574269

Forty studies and 15,000 pages of documents, reviewed and approved by FDA staff, made Plan B's safety and effectiveness clear. Yet Dr. Steven Galson, then the acting director of the agency's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, focused instead on whether easy availability of Plan B would make younger teens more promiscuous or more likely to have unprotected sex. In rejecting over-the-counter status, Galson overruled advisory panels and sub-directors of FDA offices. But he invited Barr Laboratories Inc. to come back with a proposal to make the pill available only to older teenagers and adults. latimes.com How safe is Plan B? No serious complications have been associated with Plan B. Used as directed, Plan B is safe for most women. Plan B should not be used by women who are already pregnant, who have undiagnosed abnormal genital bleeding, or who are hypersensitive to an ingredient in the product. Do women who use Plan B experience side effects? Some women experience temporary side effects after taking Plan B. Approximately 23.1 percent of women taking Plan B experience nausea (compared to 50.5 percent with the older Yuzpe regimen of high-dose estrogen-progestin pills), and 5.6 percent vomit (compared to 18.8 percent). Other side effects may include lower abdominal pain (17.6 percent), fatigue (16.9 percent), headache (16.8 percent), dizziness (11.2 percent), breast tenderness (10.7 percent), and menstrual changes, including heavier bleeding (13.8 percent) and lighter bleeding (12.5 percent). ec.princeton.edu On the other hand.... juiceguy.com Would you rather have abortions instead? Al

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (262826)	12/1/2005 4:13:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574269

Al, Sure...because you need a prescription to get it. ... As far as I know the drug is considered to be perfectly safe. Tons of side effects. Anything is better than the morning-after pill, short of abortion. When you're using massive doses of hormones to force an out-of-cycle menstruation period, you're obviously asking for trouble. Really? Here are the noted side effects for the morning after pill and those for aspirin. Frankly, I think the aspirin may be more dangerous: "Common side effects [for the morning after pill] include nausea, vomiting, lower abdominal pain, fatigue, headache, breast tenderness, and menstrual changes." womensissues.about.com "Gastrointestinal reactions: Doses of 1,000 mg per day of aspirin caused gastrointestinal symptoms and bleeding that, in some cases, were clinically significant. In the largest postinfarction study (the Aspirin Myocardial Infarction Study (AMIS) with 4,500 people), the percentage of incidences of gastrointestinal symptoms for the aspirin (1,000 mg of a standard, solid-tablet formulation) and placebo-treated subjects, respectively, were stomach pain (14.5%, 4.4%), heartburn (11.9%, 4.8%), nausea and/or vomiting (7.6%, 2.1%), hospitalization for GI disorder (4.9%, 3.5%). In the A.I. and other trials, aspirin-treated patients had increased rates of gross gastrointestinal bleeding. Symptoms and signs of gastrointestinal irritation were not significantly increased in subjects treated for unstable angina with buffered aspirin in solution." rxlist.com