Sunday, June 11, 2006

From The Jihad Watch. Just In Case You Have Any Doubt Left These People Are Absolutely Insane.

I've written many times here about the saga of Plan B, the emergency contraceptive hated so much by the right-wing American Taliban, and the American Taliban's jihad to keep Plan B from achieving over the counter status. It annoys me to no end how they just can't admit that they hate women/and or sex and try to frame their opposition by corrupting the scientific process. I suppose though that trying to confuse people with pseudo-science is a far better option than coming up with arguments like this:

Meanwhile a government report later found that Dr. Janet Woodcock, deputy commissioner for operations at the FDA had also expressed a fear that making the drug available over the counter could lead to "extreme promiscuous behaviors such as the medication taking on an 'urban legend' status that would lead adolescents to form sex-based cults centered around the use of Plan B"

An actual medical doctor, serving in a federal agency whose mandate is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of drugs, uses her position and your tax dollars to oppose a medication because of a fear that it will lead to the formation of sex-based cults. Stop reading and let that sink in for awhile.

OK, now that you're back, write your own joke about a woman named Woodcock and sex based cults. It shouldn't be hard.

Not to minimize the danger of cults. They can do some pretty odd things. Like sponsor "purity balls." At these events:

a father gives a "purity ring" to his daughter-a symbol of the promise she makes to maintain her virginity for her future husband. Then, during her marriage ceremony, the daughter gives the ring to her new husband.


The cult in this case would be the Absinence Clearinghouse, and the cult leader a woman by the name of Leslee Unruh, who says "we think the relationship between fathers and their daughters is the key." The Abstinence Clearinghouse website says the purity ball is an event "which celebrates your 'little girl' and her gift of sexual purity"

This behavior would certainly seem to be that of a sex-based cult, not to mention creepingly close to pedophilia. Somehow though this has escaped the notice of the sex-cult watchdogs at the FDA. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that "Unruh" is the German word for "Woodcock." Not really. That was a joke. "Unruhe" can actually be translated as "to disturb the peace" which still seems very appropriate.

What isn't a joke though is how these whack jobs have, and continue to, infiltrate the highest levels of power in your country. I've just given you a little taste of the things the New York Times uncovered in it's Sunday magazine awhile back. If you're concerned about the Christian fascists and their plans for us all, it's well worth taking a look at the whole article. You can get it here.

5 comments:

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Here's the whole article, there, Nazi:
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/050806WA.shtml

At WVU, I have to deal with hearing crap from the "Christian Pharmacists Fellowship, Int'l." They actually believe in writing "faith prescriptions to patients they think need such a thing. Yikes. Google them up if you can, it's good for a creepy kinda laugh.

anne altman said...

do you think 21 years for peddling fake heart and AIDS meds to pharmacies is adequate time in the slammer?

DrugMonkey, Master of Pharmacy said...

Thanks apathetic pharmacy guy. I figured the article was out there somewhere, I was just too lazy to look for it today. Sometimes it takes a village. I'll use my magic hyperlink creator to make it easy for people to take a look.

As for you Ann, so many variables would go into answering your question.

1) Am I the peddler or the peddlee?

2) Am I a defense lawyer or prosecuting attorney?

3) Were the fake meds ultimately ingested by Republicans? If so I would say a small fine would suffice.

4) Did I or anyone I care about take these fake meds? If so, I would say any penalty short of being forced to eat your own feces would be wholly inadequate. Unless the person is the type into fecal eating. I know there are a lot of freaks out there.

philskaren said...

Yes, because saving yourself for marriage worked out so well for Jessica Simpson. Purity rings today, Valtrex tomorrow.

Anonymous said...

Jesse, it could technically be argued that abstinence is about 72% effective, since 28% of American youths are sexually abused or assaulted. Don't get me wrong- abstinence is a smart choice scientifically to reduce risk. It's a wonderful thing in theory. It's the practice that's incredibly flawed. I'd rather risk some idiot teenager use Plan B as a substitute for condoms (which they really shouldn't be able to do if it's behind the counter anyway,) than risk denying it to a woman whose primary method of birth control failed.