February 6, 2010
All US military installations around the world will now stock the “morning after pill” – Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) in addition to oral contraception and condoms. The pill has been available in the US without a prescription. The Pentagon order follows a recommendation by the Pentagon’s Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee, an advisory panel made up of military medical professionals. The Pentagon said the decision was a matter of uniformity and not prompted by the secretary of defense or the administration. The panel recommended the same back in 2002 and it was re-visited in 2006.
So why now?
Because of the rape epidemic?
Because they had to drop Maj Gen Cucolo’s crazy policy of punishing women who become pregnant?
He said he wanted his soldiers to think first before they act – and Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America feels the same way. She told CBN News the pill is “a political tool for abortion advocates” and that “the military needs to focus on discipline and proper behavior, because lives depend on it, not promoting risky behavior.”
How is carrying the morning after pill promoting risky behavior?
Where is this Wendy Wright’s comments on women being raped at a rate twice the civilian population (1 in 3)?
And who is she to talk about what the military needs to focus on and “lives depending on it”?
As a side note, that Tim Tebow Super Bowl commercial – had there been no mention of what it was about before it was aired – you wouldn’t have known what it was about. Did CBS make them tone it down?
