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To: Alighieri who wrote (262866)	12/1/2005 9:28:35 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574046

Al, comparing the morning-after pill with aspirin? Not even Planned Parenthood is willing to go there. You made a statement that there are many reasons for not allowing Plan B to be dispensed OTC, but never explained yourself clearly. I thought you were talking about side effects, and posted links showing that there are no severe adverse side effects...hence the aspirin link. Why don't you defend YOUR position and post a link showing that there are effects, as you intimated... Without knowing it, I made the same comparison. I think he's playing the my-wife-is-a-pharmacist's-card and she knows best. ted

To: Alighieri who wrote (262866)	12/1/2005 10:04:16 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574046

The scientific panel that reviews drugs for OTC status for the FDA found no reason not to allow "Plan B" (which is a different pill than RU-486) not to be made available over the counter and recommended it be made legal without prescription. In all cases BUT this one, this has meant the drug immediately became approved for OTC sale. The Bush-appointed, bible-thumping FDA head stopped it. The head of the science panel resigned, to shine a light on the fact that the Bush FDA is making decisions based on right wing abortion politics, not science. Last week's 60 Minutes had a segment on it.

To: Alighieri who wrote (262866)	12/2/2005 12:38:03 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574046

Al, I thought you were talking about side effects, and posted links showing that there are no severe adverse side effects...hence the aspirin link. Why don't you defend YOUR position and post a link showing that there are effects, as you intimated... LOL, you can't even keep a consistent argument. You already posted the 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). And those side-effects are typical when prescribed in a controlled fashion. (Those aren't all of them, either.) Then you post a link to aspirin's side-effects, but those are more typical of overdosing and/or complications with countless medical conditions, which will obviously pop up when hundreds of millions of people take aspirin for the most mundane things. With the side-effects of the morning-after pill already orders of magnitude more significant than aspirin, making it OTC is just plain old asking for trouble. Millions of women will start considering it a normal form of birth control instead of what it was always meant to be in the first place: emergency contraception. Tenchusatsu