Tuesday, October 25, 2005

New Rule: Anti-Choice Advocates Must Raise the Unplanned Childred of Rape Victims

My hope is that the few women advocating against contraception, emergency or otherwise, or those who paste the vomit-inducing "abortion stops a beating heart" stickers on their gas guzzling minivans on their way to child-labor supporting Wal-Mart never get raped or have a pregnancy that, if not aborted, could result in their own death.

On the other hand, I must admit I'm strongly curious to see what happens when they're put in that position.

So is a 20-year-old woman who was recently the survivor of a sexual assault, and couldn't find a morning after pill at any pharmacy surrounding Tucson.

Except one.

Whew - so she found what she needed after a long search, took the medication, and was able to avert the disaster of giving birth to a child created during a vile rape, right?

Well, not quite.

The pharmacist refused to give her the very legal, very effective morning after pill, commonly referred to as “plan B.”

From the Arizona Daily Star:
When she finally did find a pharmacy with [the pills], she said she was told the pharmacist on duty would not dispense it because of religious and moral objections.

"I was so shocked," said the 20-year-old woman, who, as a victim of sexual assault, is not being named by the Star. "I just did not understand how they could legally refuse to do this."

But many stores are. A 2004 survey of more than 900 Arizona pharmacies found less than half keep emergency contraception drugs in stock, with most saying there is too little demand, but some cite moral reasons, according to the Arizona Family
Planning Council.

Yet, family-planning agencies say they've seen a 60 percent increase in demand for the drug in recent years. The statistics are creating what advocates say is a frightening situation for some women.


Excuse me - Mr. Pretend doctor, wearing the same lab coat my little cousin wore last Halloween? That's not your uterine wall a fetus/rape byproduct might attach itself to. Oh, and I almost forgot - it's also not your fucking decision.

A while back I wrote a blog about this very phenomenon, admittedly not having cited an actual example of this happening. Well, here’s your example.

And as a fit ending, if this woman does end up getting pregnant, the pharmacist who denied her civil, human, and American right to contraception must:

1). Be raped himself
2). Have a large cantaloupe stuffed up his rectum to be held there for about 36 weeks or so, after which
3). He must pass a golf ball through the opening at the end of his penis
4). Raise, care for, and financially support for the rest of his life the sack of flower you had to carry around in health class (I don’t trust him with the actual child).

Thankfully this kid’s chances of getting pregnant from the assault are about as likely as snow in Miami (Be sure to Google Mr. Leon Holmes and his thoughts on this).

Welcome to Red State America everyone.

3 Comments:

Blogger Chris said...

Thank you for visiting my site and leaving comments.

October 24, 2005 11:19 PM  
Blogger Handsome B. Wonderful said...

Well said. I totally agree.

October 26, 2005 12:55 PM  
Blogger JT said...

For all their talk about saving babies' lives, you'd think all the adoption agencies would be empty.

October 27, 2005 8:50 PM  

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