Plan B vs. the Right Wingnuts

[ximinez]

http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2006/05/the_b_spot.html (possibly NSFW images (don't know b/c I have them turned off for this site from work))

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/04/why_the_wingnuts_hate_plan_b.php (SFW)

This is an issue on which we can completely ignore any assertion that life begins at fertilization (which I personally find absurd), because it's irrelevant: fertilization doesn't take place. No zygote, no fetus, no embryo, no babies. The claim that this argument is about the life of a baby is null and void, and the opposition to Plan B makes it glaringly, brilliantly clear that this isn't about the sanctity of life at all: it's all about controlling a woman's ovaries. She will not be allowed to tamper with the timing of ovulation.

Comments

[knobody.livejournal.com]

there is a problem with this argument, and i believe it's the one that the right wingnuts have the biggest beef with. what if the egg has already been released? fertilization can take place up to 24 or 36 (depending on your source) after ovulation and can happen in as little as two hours after unprotected sex. so, someone has sex, ovulates (and some theorize that sex can trigger ovulation to a limited extent), fertilization takes place, then the next morning someone takes plan b. plan b then possibly prevents implantation of the zygote (according to their own web site). for the "life begins at conception" people it is morally wrong to prevent implantation of a fertilized zygote. the fact that this happens naturally is irrelevent to them. if god takes care of it, then it's his choice, but when people interfere then that is Bad(tm).

i'm not saying i agree with them, but they do have a point that is not mentioned by the above. to be consistent with the theory that life begins at conception and doing anything to prevent that life is wrong, then opposing plan b is the logical view.

[ximinez]

There is a lot of discussion of this very point at the second link. As far as I've been able to put together, despite any marketing claims to the contrary, there is not yet any scientific evidence that Plan B prevents implantation.

[ximinez]

(In the comments, that is.)

[cadrys.livejournal.com]

...reason number thirty-seven why I don't self-label as "Republican"

[tealfroglette.livejournal.com]

hey! i self label as radioactive squirrel! :) wooot!

[ximinez]

And that's why we love you.

[dragonbane.livejournal.com]

I'm going to stick with "Cute Fuzzy Weasel." :)

...Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines...

[ximinez]

*shakes head*

[kittykatkatja.livejournal.com]

Poor baby, someone else is called a weasel, too. *smooches*

[ximinez]

Well, at least I can console myself with the fact that mine starts with "fuck like"...

Did I just say that out loud?

[kittykatkatja.livejournal.com]

Um, it was actually "Go at it like"..., but you've apparently translated it in your head, and _then_ said it out loud. :-P

[ximinez]

My brain has a defective vulgar filter.

But that's ok, because we both dropped "crazed". ;)

[kittykatkatja.livejournal.com]

I'll stick with "Cute Fuzzy Weasel," too :)