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[unbibium]

So I hear that they've invented a male birth control pill. Awesome, I think. This'll give men the opportunity to take some initiative, and prevent all the pregnancies caused by selfish losers who won't wear a condom.

But not in America, because Bush is going to fill the FDA with Jesus freaks, including a Dr. W. David Hager, who "appears to have endorsed the medically inaccurate assertion that the common birth control pill is an abortifacient." Common consensus is that his first target will be the RU-486 emergency contraceptive, though it's a safe bet that he'll dismiss the male birth control pill as being "anti-family."

mezdeathhead is vectoring a petition that invites you to spread the word to anyone who cares about women's rights, and E-mail the President. I seriously doubt he'll read a single one of them, nor would it sway him it every woman in America e-mailed him. If Jesus can trump scientific facts in the mind of a scientist, then he can trump voters in the mind of a politician who would hire such a scientist, and who got the bright idea to confine protesters to "free speech zones" where they can't spoil his fun.

I'm looking for an alternative. If mez's post is to be believed, then Congress can't stop him. Is there anyone who can?

Comments

[kerri9494.livejournal.com]

I have heard the assertion that the 'common birth control pill is an abortifacient'. (By 'common', I think this refers to the currently available female birth-control pill.)

In some cases, it surely is. There are various different kinds of birth-control pills, including the estrogen/progesterone pills, and the progesterone-only pills. In women where these pills are not successful at suppressing ovulation, they are also able to prevent implantation, which some people consider 'abortifacient'. Of course, this is what people with nothing better to do DEBATE.

However, the 'common birth control pill' for women IS used as an abortifacient when it is taken as a 'morning-after pill', a series of estrogen/progesterone pills taken over a few days after potential conception. But that doesn't always work, thus the need for something like RU-486.

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

Right. The only way a morning-after pill would work for men is if it changed your blood type.

(That joke is funnier in the original Latin.)