I've been following this for a while now.


This is one of the downsides of what happens when a conservative Republican president runs the White House.

While I am vehamently opposed to frivolous lawsuits, this is one situation where I would look into the option of sueing.

You can bet your bottom dollar that this is one of many reasons I'm voting Democrat in the next election. God save us from the Moral Minority. And you know what...I'm sorry, moral or otherwise, I don't consider a collection of cytoblast cells a baby. They are talking primarily of first month terminations.

Get the heck away from my ovaries folks! Start worrying about more important things...like the fact that our president has quietly declared miles of federally protected national park land now open to private enterprise.

Contributing to unwanted children and overpopulation is oh so much more important than the systematic distruction of some of our last natural reserves in the name of profit.

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1. I'm pagan.
2. Its homepage has a column on the right hand side that is updated regularly with new, important pieces of news, many which are controversial (ie, Arnold Schwarzeneggar's announcement to have animals in shelters killed faster to save money...and a few hours later, him deciding that money saving idea was best left in the trash after the public outcry)
3. It is the only page I've found that has intelligent feedback left for news stories (unlike yahoo.com, where idiots mostly post)

Katse

That's interesting. I have to give Bush a little help here, most of these physicians are actually deciding this on their own.

In my own opinion, a doctor has the right to not prescribe something. However, if the patient feels otherwise, they should find another doctor. For example, some psychiatrists won't prescribe pills for patients with depression or what not. Again, that's their opinion and their right. But a patient who feels that their problem is a chemical imbalance should find another doctor and discuss it with them.

Pharmacists, however, don't have that right. The doctor has prescribed the medicine. Birth control is used for quite a few more things than birth control, such as severe menstrual cramps and weight control (yup, weight control). The doctor's job is to decide whether or not to prescribe something. The pharmacist's job is to fill those prescriptions. Period. If they feel strong enough to not do so, they need to leave the business.

Birth contol, used for its original purpose, is used to prevent the need to decide what to do with an unwanted baby. I feel it's better to be on the pill than to abort the baby or worse.

I have strong opinions on abortion, primarily because I know so many young women who've miscarried. To me, adoption is a better route than abortion, primarily because of my religious beliefs and because so many women I know want a child so badly.

But again, birth control is not abortion. It prevents the choice having to be made entirely.

As for the parklands being opened up, it isn't like the parks are actually protecting the land. Faced with the choice to allow a designated amount of land to be cleared and then replanted in order to stop the beetle invasion or allow the invasion to continue, they decided to allow it to continue. As a result, rather than at least be turned into usable lumber, the trees died, became useless, and added to the danger of forest fires, which wiped out even more. It's true that the parks try to prevent human-inflicted damage, but natural damage can be a problem as well. What's worse is that the areas destroyed by the fires won't be replanted. Rather than lose a chunk of trees that would have been replaced, the people decided to lose whole forests. What I'd like to know is if some of these areas were the ones stricken by the beetle. If so, there's nothing there but dead trees. It would take decades for the area to grow back. It makes sense to go ahead and open the area up.

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