American Circle of Lucifer's Underlings at it again!

Those "waskalie" wookies at the American Circle of Lucifer's Underlings, commonly just called the ACLU, are at it again. When not persecuting 9 year old boy scouts who don't want to associate with known sexual predators or agnostics and atheists who have a passion for hating the God most Americans admit of AND believe in, they are hounding pro-life Pharmacists of Conscience who will not buckle under their hate of religion, especially if it wiffs of the Catholic or Christian flavor.

Besides the self-evident beauty, this young lady says it all about the ACLU, including their long and deep roots in the American Communist Party, including one supreme court justice (Ruth "Buzzi" Ginsberg) who was voted in with only 3 dissenting votes!



Here's one story about their latest attempt to impose their immorality down the throats of the majority. Whatever happened to the tyrrany of the minority? Oh yeah, right there with the "dictatorship of the proletariat" that these lefty commie kooks are installing in the land of the brave.

And, don't believe their bogus voodo "scientific" poll on the matter of the abortifacient "emergency" abortion pill being available without an Rx. In two separate polls, conducted by secular folks, pharmacists rejected
ACLU's and the abortoholics' premise of a pharmacist's conscience clause: by landslide majorities of 69 and 77% pharmacists overwhelmingly agree pharmacists should be able to step away from dispensing ANYTHING which violates their religious, moral or ethical principles AND not be strong-armed to refer the same said "patients" for drugs which often are used to kill a patient, preborn or born.

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Monday, February 20, 2006
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KENTUCKY GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Bill eases access to 'morning after pill'
Contraceptive stirs abortion debate

By Peter Smith
psmith@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal

A controversial emergency contraceptive would be easier for women in Kentucky to obtain under a bill proposed in the General Assembly.

The contraceptive, called Plan B, is designed to be used after unprotected sex or sexual assault, or when a primary birth control method such as a condom fails. It has been a target of abortion foes because in some cases, it prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.



In that scenario, "it's not contraception" but the abortion of a "tiny human being," said Margie Montgomery, executive director of the Kentucky Right to Life Association.

But the bill's sponsor, state Rep. Tom Burch, D-Louisville, argues that Plan B, which is one of the drugs known as the "morning-after pill," does not cause abortion and that conception begins with implantation.

"People are raising Cain about abortion all the time, but if you don't conceive a child, you don't have to abort the child," Burch said.

Burch's bill would allow a doctor to provide a pharmacist with a standing prescription for Plan B that could be filled for any woman who requests it. This process, which would follow guidelines set by the state, would not be the same as over-the-counter status, which federal authorities have denied.

"Men get all the birth-control stuff they want, and women can't," Burch said in explaining his reasons for sponsoring the measure. "There's not supposed to be any differences."

The bill's filing follows the recent release of a report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, stating that nearly nine in 10 Kentucky pharmacies do not stock Plan B.

While the bill would not force pharmacies to stock the drug, it would streamline the process for those that do.

Advocates for the drug say that's crucial because Plan B is effective only within 72 hours of intercourse. The drug does one of three things, depending on the point in a woman's cycle -- prevents her from ovulating, prevents the sperm from fertilizing the woman's egg, or prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the uterus.

Opponents of Burch's bill include Right to Life and the Catholic Conference of Kentucky.

"People (who) are prescribed drugs should have that happen in the context of advice and counsel and the ability to ask questions of doctors," said Ed Monahan, executive director of the conference.

The bill is pending in the House Health and Welfare Committee -- of which Burch is chairman. Burch said he has not set a hearing date.

Leon Claywell, president of the Kentucky Pharmacists Association, said he stocks Plan B at his pharmacies. Many do not, he said, because it's a "low-demand item."

Claywell said he doesn't see the need for Burch's bill because most pharmacists can order a prescription within 24 hours.

"I feel more comfortable with that being prescribed by" a doctor who knows a patient's medical history, he said. "But if the law is changed … certainly pharmacists could handle it."

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Plan B in 1999.

The FDA denied a proposal in 2004 to make Plan B available over the counter -- an unusual rejection of the recommendation of its advisory committee, a congressional report said.

The decision said inadequate data were available about the drug's effects on the health and sexual behavior of younger teens. Critics said the FDA caved into conservative pressure, which the agency denies.

According to national reports and the Kentucky ACLU study, some pharmacists have refused to dispense the drug on moral grounds.

Four states give pharmacists a right to refuse, and similar proposals are pending in the legislatures of Indiana and several other states, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. States such as California and Illinois require pharmacists to dispense emergency contraceptives.

Kentucky law authorizes pharmacists to use their "professional judgment to refuse to fill a prescription," such as when a patient is allergic or addicted to a drug, said Mike Burleson, executive director of the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy.

But the law neither allows nor forbids a pharmacist to refuse a prescription out of conscience. Burch's bill doesn't address that issue.
ACLU survey

The recent Kentucky ACLU report stemmed from a survey it conducted last fall of 309 pharmacies, or nearly a quarter of the state's pharmacies.

As part of the survey, female callers posing as customers asked pharmacists if they could fill a prescription for Plan B that day.

Only 12 percent of the pharmacies said they had the drug in stock. Five rural counties had no pharmacies willing to dispense it, and a sixth had no pharmacies at all. Another 41 percent of the pharmacies called were willing to order Plan B, but some could not get it within the needed 72 hours, the report said.

"I found it disturbing in the sense that there were so few pharmacies that actually had it in stock," said Amanda Kreps-Long, director of the ACLU's Kentucky Reproductive Freedom Project. "That's really dangerous for women, because it's such a time-sensitive medicine."

The survey used some typical polling methods, such as its random selection of pharmacies and use of the same questions for each call. It was untypical in that the callers posed as customers rather than disclosing that they were doing a survey.

Some pharmacists told callers that their stores didn't stock the medicine as a policy or that they had never heard of the drug, while a few said they would not fill it as a matter of conscience, Kreps-Long said.

The pharmacy board's Burleson said no one has complained to the board about a pharmacist refusing to fill a prescription for Plan B. He added that state law does not require a pharmacy "to carry every medication out there that's available."

Wal-Mart, which has 90 pharmacies in Kentucky, refused to answer repeated Courier-Journal inquiries about whether it stocks Plan B. Industry trade journals say it does not. The ACLU said none of the 19 Wal-Marts it surveyed had Plan B in stock.

Rite-Aid, Kroger, Kmart and CVS allow individual pharmacists to decline to fill prescriptions for reasons of conscience but require their pharmacies to fill them in another way.

"We do have a responsibility to fill the prescriptions that are brought to us," said Kroger spokesman Tim McGurk. At the same time, "we do have a policy in place to ensure we don't force pharmacists to compromise their individual beliefs."

CVS requires each store to fill a customer's prescription even if they have to get it delivered from another store, spokesman Mike DeAngelis said.

Kreps-Long said she was especially dismayed that the survey found some pharmacists who didn't know about Plan B. She said the ACLU would start informational campaigns for pharmacists and the public.

"With more demand, more pharmacists might be willing to carry it," she said.

Reporter Peter Smith can be reached at (502) 582-4469.

Abortoholics use cognitive dissonance: acuse those whom you attack of your vices

Here's a great set of letters from Cristina Alarcon, BSP, pharmacist of conscience in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to some small circulation yellow rag called Georgia Straight.

Enjoy Cristina's sharp logic and the cognitive dissonance of the abortiholic marxist who wrote her emotion-laden rebuttal to Cristina's first letter. Folks we can't make this stuff up if we tried!

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My apologies if you have received this twice. The following is my response to a letter that was published in the Georgia Straight on Feb 9th, 2006. The letter by Ms Duncan is included below, as well as the original article that instigated it.

To: Georgia Straight news

Dear Editor,

I write in response to the letter you printed in the last issue of the Georgia Straight signed Caryn Duncan.

I agree with Caryn Duncan that no one should "make medical claims about drugs and medical procedures to shift the spotlight from their position on abortion". In fact, my stance for not supporting Plan B's becoming available over the counter is not as simple as just being pro-life or pro-choice. It is infinitely more complex than that!

As to Ms Duncan's statements from a McGill University epidemiologist who vouches for the safety of Plan B, I wonder how in the world she could know about its longterm safety when this particular product has only been on the market for a couple of years! Similar claims have been made about HRT (hormone replacement therapy), only to be discarded when studies were eventually carried out years after many women had suffered the consequences of being misinformed.

As to safety for the fetus exposed to Plan B? If the zygote (a new human being with 23 [unique pairs of chromosomes) happens to implant after suffering this hormonal assault then , yes, as far as we know he or she will continue to grow and develop. However, we do know that exposures of fetuses to high doses of estrogens in "birth control" pills have been known to cause male genital defects.

Furthermore, I do not hide the fact that I am pro-life, and take offense at having Ms Duncan imply that I am trying to hide something or trying to "pry" when I counsel my patients according to what I truly believe is the best way to go!

Sincerely,

Cristina Alarcon, BSP
Pharmacist

Feb 9.2006

Letters
Letters Archives

Morning-after-pill story pushes readers’ buttons
Publish Date: 9-Feb-2006

Pieta Woolley’s Plan B story [“Morning-after pill may head over the counter”, Feb. 2-9] ably reflects the complexity of the issues surrounding emergency contraception. However, I take issue with founding member of B.C. Pharmacists for Conscience Cristina Alarcon’s comments. Antichoice crusaders often make medical claims about drugs and medical procedures to shift the spotlight from their position on abortion.

For example, some claim that abortion causes cancer or has long-term health implications. There is no medical evidence to support this.

Ms. Alarcon’s comments about the health implications of Plan B are not supported by medical evidence either. I would be the first person to criticize the pharmaceutical industry for unsafe drugs. Plan B doesn’t warrant this criticism.

Abby Lippman, chair of the Canadian Women’s Health Network and an epidemiologist at McGill University, is on the record stating that Plan B (levonorgestrel) “is safe, will not harm a fetus even if a woman is pregnant, and has no contraindications or serious adverse effects”. The fact is, differing opinions about the availability of emergency contraception is really a debate about whether women should have control over their own bodies.

> Caryn Duncan / Vancouver Women’s Health Collective

Regarding “Morning-after pill may head over the counter”: I am not a pharmacist. Personally, I look at all possible alternatives before swallowing any pill. However, when my husband was very sick, our pharmacist was the one to prevent a catastrophe in the treatment ordered by his G.P., a doctor totally ignorant of the deadly interactions between the meds he had prescribed.

I wonder, then, why pharmacists should not have a say in protecting women from themselves? What if, in a panic, a young girl takes a pill too late and does not abort spontaneously? What intrauterine damage will affect the fetus; what damages will she do to herself?

In this day and age—except in the case of rape—why would a woman have to rely on that pill at all? What about education? Information? Prevention?

But, of course, that does not give the pharmacist the right to act without discretion and compassion.

> Jacqueline Maire / New Westminster

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Morning-after pill may head over the counter
By Pieta Woolley

Publish Date: 2-Feb-2006

Caryn Duncan wants the morning-after pill to become more accessible.

Thirty years ago, Caryn Duncan remembers, you couldn’t buy condoms without first talking to a pharmacist. Ditto yeast-infection cream. That was ridiculous, she said. Now, just as outrageous, Duncan added, the morning-after pill is still stuck behind the counter, with a prying pharmacist sometimes blocking access to the drug.

“Women are smart enough to figure out when and how to take it,” the Vancouver Women’s Health Collective member told the Georgia Straight. “Why can’t we just walk into a store and buy it?”

Buying morning-after pills alongside gossip mags and lip gloss inched closer to reality on January 20. After a meeting of its board, the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia (CPBC) quietly wrote a letter recommending to the B.C. government that Plan B, a morning-after pill used for emergency contraception, become an over-the-counter, nonprescription drug. That means any woman could walk into a pharmacy, verbally answer a couple of questions, pay her money, and take the pills.

The morning-after pill can be taken up to three days after unprotected sex. It’s a high dose of estrogen, about four times the level of a normal birth-control pill. Depending on when during a woman’s cycle it’s taken, the pill may prevent ovulation, fertilization, or implantation of an egg.

By the Georgia Straight’s deadline, the government had not yet considered the college’s recommendations, which would bring B.C.’s treatment of Plan B in line with other provinces.

“This is a pipeline process; it wouldn’t happen overnight,” CPBC spokesperson James Nesbitt told the Straight. “But the wheels have been set in motion.”

The changes will affect a vast number of women. In 2005, B.C. pharmacists prescribed 22,689 sets of Plan B pills to 18,819 women, according to B.C. Ministry of Health spokesperson Sarah Plank. That’s one Plan B prescription for every 40 women between the ages of 15 and 45 last year, if you divide the number of prescriptions into Statistics Canada’s population record of females in that age bracket in B.C.

The new regulations, if they’re accepted, will have two immediate consequences. First, extended health plans and the low-income government insurance plan Pharmacare would probably stop picking up the tab, Nesbitt confirmed. That means women may be out-of-pocket about $60 per Plan B set. It also means the government could save up to $1.4 million per year by offloading those costs to the consumers. Second, the Ministry of Health and the provinces’ doctors will no longer be able to keep track of the number of times a woman uses the drug because, as Nesbitt explained, purchases will no longer be recorded on Pharmanet.

Currently, pharmacists prescribe the pill directly to women after asking three questions: the date of her last period, the date she had unprotected sex, and if a contraception method failed, what that method was. The prescription is recorded on her Pharmanet file, according to Victoria’s director of the Office of Information and Privacy Commissioner (OIPC), Mary Carlson.

The change would eliminate the third question and the recorded information.

Duncan said she welcomes the change but thinks it doesn’t go far enough. She pointed out that without the pharmacist intervention and attendent fees, if Plan B were just available on the shelf the drug’s cost would drop from about $60 to about $25 per dose. The new, nonprescription status of Plan B won’t really hurt women’s wallets, she argued, because most women don’t have an extended health plan and are already paying the full cost.

“This is about controlling women’s bodies and choices,” she said. “Pharmacists are trying to preserve their role in the health-care system. They’re overreaching their role.”

The change wasn’t initiated by pharmacists though; it was a January 6 letter from Victoria’s OIPC to the college that got things started. Director Carlson told the Straight that the commissioner’s job is to minimize government collection of individuals’ information, and this looked like it stepped over the line.

“You can get it [Plan B] anonymously in every other province,” she said. “We asked, ‘Why would you collect this information? Why can’t there just be a dialogue [between the client and the pharmacist]?’?”

In March 2005, Carlson pointed out, Ottawa opened the door for the provinces to offer Plan B as a nonprescription drug. Most provinces did so immediately. At the time, B.C. didn’t change its legislation because local rules offered similar benefits. (In 2000, the B.C. Ministry of Health had already begun to offer Plan B through a pharmacist—the first province to do so.) It’s still considered a prescription, though, and it is not anonymous. The nonprescription format offers better privacy, Carlson said, adding that the OIPC deals only with privacy issues, not ethical or safety issues.

But Cristina Alarcon, a pharmacist for 16 years, told the Straight that safety should be at the top of the decision makers’ minds when changing access to Plan B. She said there’s little information about the long-term consequences of morning-after pills, and especially their repeated use.

“I think this is a really bad idea [to provide the drug over-the- counter],” she said. “I can’t sell hemorrhoid suppositories without a prescription, but this is much more harmful. It’s a potent hormone.”

Alarcon compared Plan B to the menopausal hormones doctors formerly prescribed to women. After years on the market, studies determined that the estrogen-progestin mix was linked to increased risks of stroke, breast cancer, and heart problems. Although the hormones in Plan B are different, Alarcon thinks it’s worth more study before they are offered over-the-counter.

“I foresee women taking it as though it were nothing,” she said. “This is giving the wrong message to the public, that this is as safe as baby Aspirin, which is also over-the-counter.…If it’s so easily available, why would women restrict themselves to using it just once?”

Apart from the health issues, Alarcon has other trouble with the drug. Eight years ago, she helped start B.C. Pharmacists for Conscience, a professional group that advocates for pharmacists to act within their own ethics. A life-long Catholic, Alarcon chooses to not distribute Plan B at all.

“I don’t think it’s good for society to have something as readily available to solve something so complex,” she said. Plus, “if a woman has conceived, this will act to impede implantation. And I believe life begins when fertilization takes place.”

Alarcon claimed that more and more young women come to see her, looking for natural methods to prevent pregnancy—ones that don’t include ingesting hormones. Most doctors don’t explain to their young patients the rhythm of their bodies or how their hormones work and when they are and are not fertile in a month, she said. Understanding those rhythms is the first step to girls and young women respecting their bodies, Alarcon noted.

“We treat our bodies as though our fertility is pathological, as though it’s a disease. It’s not.”

Duncan, however, believes it’s the pharmacist’s role to dispense the drugs, not counsel the consumers. Asking a woman too many questions can be a barrier to access, she said, and in this case that can mean more abortions or unwanted pregnancies.

“This drug has a high success rate. It needs to be available to women when they need it, affordable, and women can figure out for themselves whether they need to take it or not.”

Neither the CPBC nor the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner have received complaints about access to the drug or complaints from women who believe pharmacists ask too many questions.

Klan Parenthood and the scheming wimen-folk

Seems the age-old suspicions in the general populace about some members of the fairer sex never die out. Not from a lack of re-education camps by the liberals and lefty kooks in the nation who wish to impose their own twisted version of kulturkampf on everyone else.

The three "wimen" who recently helped file a lawsuit against big, old bad Wal Mart because the folks in Bentonville, AR made a business decision not to stock the well-known and well-dcoumented abortifacient that goes by, inter alia, the trade name Plan B have admitted to their scheming and, implicitly, their mendacity. Oh, they like to try and fool the public that it is an "emergency" (not!) and that it is magically "contraception" (not!) but the science belies them and their abuse of the scientific nomenclature.

It's OK, absolution granted to the lost souls including Rebekah Gee, MD (who's pic is here)


and her cohorts in crime, nurse and midwife Julia Battel, with Katrina McCarty, who admitted yesterday to the AP that they had schemed on the matter, colluding with the usual suspects of abortoholics and generally haters of women staying in good health without baby killing surgeries and massive doses of steroids to mess up their hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Read on and be shocked how "modern woman" can use the same ol' same tricks of yesteryear, with thanks to our friends at LifeSite News:

Wal-Mart Lawsuit Staged - Women "Denied" Abortion Drug Admit Scheming

Wal-Mart Lawsuit Staged - Women "Denied' Abortion Drug Admit Scheming

By Gudrun Schultz

MASSACHUSETTS, United States, February 2, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Three women who are suing Wal-Mart after being denied the abortion-causing Plan B morning after pill have admitted to the Associated Press that the action was planned with abortion rights groups and lawyers.

Moreover LifeSiteNews.com has learned that at least two of the women involved are themselves activists pushing the abortifacient drugs.

Dr. Rebekah Gee and nurse and midwife Julia Battel, with Katrina McCarty, launched the suit in an attempt to force Wal-Mart to stock the drug on the grounds that it is a "commonly prescribed medicine," the definition given to drugs that pharmacists are required to stock. A new state law allows pharmacists to dispense Plan B without a prescription, but they aren't required to make it available.

Dr. Gee and Ms. Battel have been active promoters of emergency contraception (EC).

Dr. Gee worked with the Massachusetts Medical Society to push for Bill 1643, an "emergency contraception" access act that passed late last year, allowing women to get Plan B without seeing their doctor. Dr. Gee is featured on the Pharmacy Access Partnership website, an organization that works to make EC widely available.

Battel also worked to ensure the passage of Bill 1634, promoting the work of the Massachusetts Coalition for Choice, which backed the legislation, and encouraging colleagues to contact legislators in support of the bill.

In the April 2005 newsletter for the Massachusetts' Nurses Association, posted on their website, Battel makes misleading statements about emergency contraception, stating:

"EC does not cause an abortion…EC will not disrupt an already established pregnancy and will not harm the developing fetus if mistakenly taken during pregnancy."

In fact, Plan B does interrupt a pregnancy by preventing a baby in the very earliest stages from attaching to the wall of the womb. The drug causes abortion of the child when taken in the first few days of pregnancy. Battel includes the term "established" before pregnancy but does not inform her readers that by this she means that she only regards pregnancy as established when the unborn child implants in the mother's uterus.

Simple biology however, informs that the child is conceived when the sperm and ovum join and implantation of that already living unborn child can take several hours even more than a day. Thus Plan B will kill live embryonic children if they have not yet implanted in their mothers' wombs.

To express support for Wal-Mart on line, go to:
Wal Mart Contact

Call toll free: 1-800-925-6278

Mailing address:

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Attn: Customer Service
702 SW 8th Street
Bentonville, AR 72716

Let's see how fairly and unbiased the willing accomplices in the so-called "mainstream media" handle this.

Will they give it the "Alito" or "Bork" treatment??