Action Alert From Pastor Rod Parsley::Judge's Overreach, Wants Plan B As Available as Tylenol (737 hits)
Friday, April 12, 2013
The Obama administration is facing a test of its moral resolve in the face of an ignorant federal-court ruling that would make emergency contraception easily available for young girls. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman of New York, an appointee of Ronald Reagan, said April 5 that the drug, known popularly by the brand name Plan B, must be available without a prescription to females of all ages. We believe the drug should be further restricted rather then being made more widely available.
Let President Barack Obama know you don't support the judge's decision, urging him to appeal Korman’s decision.
Korman’s ruling orders the Food and Drug Administration to allow women under 17 to purchase emergency contraceptives, known as Levonorgestrel, without a prescription within 30 days. He called the decision by Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to require prescriptions (and therefore a doctor’s visit) for younger females. “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable.” The medication must be made available over the counter upon request, and would not necessarily be on drugstore shelves. In 2011 Sebelius had overruled a recommendation from the FDA to allow women under the age of 17 to obtain the drug without a prescription.
Korman’s decision suggests the government acted with political motivation to prevent Levonorgestrel from being made available to teens and pre-teens without a prescription – as though the motivation to make it more widely available was not political as well.
Essentially, Korman has sided with the scientific community and the drug’s manufacturer, and neglected moral concerns associated with making Plan B available without a prescription to anyone who wants them. But there are moral concerns to be considered, if one is compassionate enough to weigh them. One concern is that the drug can be used to provide cover for men who commit statutory rape or incest. A baby could provide convincing evidence of those crimes. A dose of Plan B, at an average cost of $45, would provide reasonably priced insurance against being discovered as a s*xual offender.
A more important concern is that Plan B is an abortifacient. By definition, it works by preventing a fertilized egg from implanting in its mother’s womb. We consider contraception a matter of individual conscience, but abortifacient types of contraception destroy human life, and to our mind should not be available at all. In his rush to win an award of “courage” from the scientific lobby, Korman neglected a much more important consideration: the sanctity of human life.
We hold no illusions that President Obama or HHS Secretary Sebelius hold human life in the same regard as we do. But whatever their reasons, they concluded that Plan B and its generic equivalents should not be made available to females under the age of 17 without a prescription. They have the opportunity to appeal Judge Korman’s decision, and there’s no doubt in our minds that they should do so.
Click link below to send a message to President Barack Obama, encouraging him to defend the sanctity of life and common sense by appealing Judge Korman’s decision making Plan B more widely available without a prescription.
