NARAL: Unprotected Sex is an Emergency
April 24th, 2007 at 11:04 am
April 24th, 2007 at 11:04 am
The Columbus Dispatch reports that NARAL has surveyed about half of Ohio’s emergency rooms to see if and when they hand out “emergency contraception.”
“The picture has improved in Ohio but is not perfect. For women who experience contraceptive failure or have unprotected sex, there are still significant hurdles,” said Jamie Miracle, spokeswoman for NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio, which issued the report.
I understand the desire for “emergency contraception” for victims of rape. I don’t necessarily agree with it (two wrongs don’t make a right), but I understand the sentiment. Avoiding the consequences of desired sexual contact is on another ethical plane.
Failed contraception isn’t an emergency, either.
We minimize risk all the time, but when the minimization of one’s risk involves the maximization of risk to someone else, it’s best not to engage in that risky activity. We are reduced to animals when we consider all scenarios to be emergency situations and damn everyone else.
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April 24th, 2007 at 12:55 pm
“Lack of preparation on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.”
April 24th, 2007 at 7:11 pm
Um, but you can’t get mentioned during the night time news if you don’t create an emergency. After all, as Art Modell once said (I’m paraphrasing), “Good press and bad press both beat no press.”
I’m guessing that NARAL didn’t check how many of these folks were high or drunk when the, er, “incident” occurred.
And what about the cost for a box of “protection” versus the cost of emergency room care. Imagine reporting that one to your HMO…oops, I’m assuming these people have jobs and health insurance. Probably a bad move on my part.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:01 am
So handing out emergency contraception to anyone who wants it is wrong, but letting someone bring a child into this world or worse yet get an abortion because that emergency contraception wasn’t available is okay. I say hand out the emergency contraception. Put it in CVS, Walgreens, put it in the gas station bathroom vending machine with all the other fancy items. If it stops unplanned pregnancies and abortions then lets go for it. Better yet it has the tendency to make you sick as a dog when you take that many hormone pills all in one fell swoop, so maybe you will think about it the next time.
April 25th, 2007 at 10:22 am
From the FDA (yes, we are suspect as to what the government says
) with respect to Plan B:
If we accept that life begins at conception rather than implantation, then an abortion occurs if there’s a fertilization and Plan B prevents implantation. If Plan B didn’t mess with implantation, there wouldn’t be as much objection to it.
April 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am
Emergency contraception simply addresses a symptom of the problem.
There are several problems here:
1. is the desire to undo after-the-fact the consequences of a bad decision. (emergency contraception)
2. is the temptation to commit to the bad decision in the first place.
3. is the desire to not call the bad decision a bad decision, and seek methods (legalized abortion) to help us justify our bad decisions as acceptable.
And since we are all simply intelligent apes, (at least as the public school system teaches) then we might as well treat ourselves as mere animals.