So, the availability of pregnancy prevention pill Plan B to girls and women is actually about easing the fears of predators and rapists? Rapists, who by Ingraham’s estimation, dose victims with Plan B then make a follow-up visit with them 12 hours later for the second pill. By the way, any adult could purchase Plan B, it was just made available to minors so it actually has no effect on Ingraham’s theory that pedophiles were just waiting for the chance to dose the chocolate milk, so to speak.
As for her concern about the health of women and girls that take Plan B, Dr. Nancy Stanwood, chair of Physicians for Reproductive Health, said in a statement released today:
Multitudes of studies have demonstrated that emergency contraception is safe for use by teens of all ages and that teens, like adults, can follow the instructions safely. Too many women in the U.S. have gone without this necessary medication because the pharmacy counter is closed, they don’t have government-issued ID, or they’re under 17 and lack a prescription.
I think I’ll put my faith in the physician and not the pundit.
Also on today’s #TWiBRadio, we discussed more of Fox News’ speculation theatre, a highly problematic federal judge, and smooth *ahem* body parts.
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Baud
I think you mean “easing” instead of “teasing.”
I hope.
Elon James White
Oh dear … all fixed.
shortstop
Ah, but now it’s going to be repackaged into multicolored, glittery packages festooned with photos of Justin Bieber, the Jonas Brothers and horses. You wouldn’t give a Centrum or a One-a-Day to a kid instead of a Flintstones, would you? Big Pharma pedophiles are slicker than that.
Corner Stone
pokeyblow
I’m predicting a big surge in altar-boy rapes, because of Plan B.
Citizen_X
And somebody immediately asked Ingraham the obvious question of why a pedophile would be interested in birth control, right? Right?
Just Some Fuckhead
Thank God no one has a Teenie Creampie fetish.
? Martin
@Just Some Fuckhead: That’s your way of telling us you have a teenie creampie fetish, isn’t it?
piratedan
well since Plan A was so incredibly effective (the aspirin between the knees trick), I have no idea on why we would even need a Plan B
The Other Chuck
My god, the places the conservative mind immediately goes to. These people have seriously broken minds and souls.
MomSense
Was Ingraham serious about this? I really thought that Pedophiles Rejoice, Plan B is available was an onion headline.
The Republicans have ruined satire!
Yatsuno
@? Martin: You now owe me a lifetime of therapy bills and an unending supply of brain bleach. Ewwwwwwwwwww.
PsiFighter37
@Just Some Fuckhead: Uh…wow.
Mnemosyne
IIRC, studies show that most young teens who give birth were impregnated by an older man, often a family member (eeewwww!), but also sometimes an older boyfriend in their 20s or 30s.
In the rational world, this means we should try to prevent those pregnancies, preferably by getting healthcare for those girls so they can talk to doctors and get out of the bad relationship. In Conservativeland, this is even more proof that we have to force young girls to have babies rather than letting them have contraception or abortion — that way, there’s proof of a crime! CSI: Pedophiles!
Just Some Fuckhead
@? Martin: I don’t even know what it means. It’s just a category I saw on a pornsite next to the grandmilfs category.
PsiFighter37
@Just Some Fuckhead: Yeah, you are TOTALLY believable in your claim of ignorance. /not
It’s okay. I won’t judge you for your predilections on the naughty intertubes.
Violet
@Mnemosyne: Wingnuts do not want to prevent pregnancies. They want to control people, particularly women. Patriarchy as policy.
quannlace
Yes, cause we all know a rapist’s number one concern is whether he’s gonna get his victim pregnant. That worry alone is enough to stop him in his tracks.
^^^^^^^^^
Thanks Dr. Laura, for proving that women can be total dicks. Equality!
WereBear
@Mnemosyne: Exactly. Why we should force motherhood on those who did not seek it and do not want it…
Well, #Wingnutthinking.
I swear, all of these people were beaten as children. It is what makes all the stupidities… make sense.
Chris
@Violet:
Quoted for truth.
Bill in Section 147
@Just Some Fuckhead: I thought you were trying to embiggen my genius by philosophizing my sexuality. But then I realized you were not my professor and I was not in Florida and your off-color cream humor fell flat.
Yatsuno
@PsiFighter37: Rule 34. Balloon Juice is not immune. Yes this means there are Tunch fanfics.
beltane
@quannlace: Well, there was that guy in Ohio who repeatedly impregnated one of his victims and then beat and starved her until she miscarried. Under the circumstances, as horrific as they were, I’m sure she would have preferred Plan B to the savage beatings. (not that this would have been a consideration of her rapist kidnapper anyway).
A Humble Lurker
@Corner Stone:
Fixed.
Mnemosyne
@WereBear:
Because it’s for their own good. Not surprisingly, I’m pretty sure that’s what child abusers tell their kids as they hit them, too.
I thought it was bad enough that girls were being told they had to keep their babies for punishment. Now apparently they’re supposed to spend 18 years raising a crime scene.
Corner Stone
@A Humble Lurker:
A Humble Lurker
@Corner Stone:
Fixed.
Just Some Fuckhead
@PsiFighter37: Years ago, my girlfriend told me she thought I was a pedophile. I didn’t even know how to respond. Then I said quietly, “That’s a pretty big word for a 10 year old.”
Just Some Fuckhead
@Yatsuno:
I hope you are kidding. That’s just sick.
pokeyblow
Plan B: Strong enough for a little boy, but made for a woman.
WereBear
Just wanted to add: I’ve gotten hooked on the podcast.
And, heaven help me, when astonishingly stupid things happen, I got “whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?” the way Elon James does. In my head.
Can’t help it.
Corner Stone
@A Humble Lurker: Unfortunately for you, your argument is with reality, not me.
So, please proceed.
pokeyblow
@Corner Stone: it’s like that.
Litlebritdifrnt
It was interesting this morning on Morning Joe when they were discussing this, after they had talked about it at the top of the 6am hour and again at the top of the 7pm hour Mika said, “isn’t it strange when we are talking about this (pregnancy) we are only talking about girls” and Katty Kay said (in the background) “exactly Mika, it takes two you know”.
WereBear
@Litlebritdifrnt: Oh, heavenly lawd.
Mika. Get a brain.
PsiFighter37
@efgoldman: I would beg to disagree. I wrote a fanfic that was an add-on to the end of the series ‘Animorphs’ 12 years ago, mainly because the ending as was written sucked terribly. It was quite well-received, and it had no perversions, unless you count talking about what happens after you die and not counting God or Heaven or any of that crap as part of the equation.
pokeyblow
@Litlebritdifrnt: Isn’t it an article of faith that the decision to end a pregnancy is, ultimately, exclusively the woman’s?
Raises a question I think has been settled… I assume a man couldn’t compel a woman to take Plan B, even though (my understanding is) it doesn’t technically end a pregnancy, but rather prevents one. Right?
lockout
Laura is very attractive and has adopted children from Central America.
Corner Stone
@PsiFighter37: You wrote fanfic when you were 10?
Did JSF offer any encouragement in this endeavor?
WereBear
@efgoldman: I know. I am glad the children I raised are very grown now, so I don’t have to explain “yes, stupid people become rich and famous but it’s still not a career path.”
A Humble Lurker
@Corner Stone:
You’re very welcome.
A Humble Lurker
@Just Some Fuckhead: Welcome to the Internet, my good man.
muddy
@Yatsuno: What about John Cole dressed as Tunch furries fanfic?
Yatsuno
@muddy: I put nothing past some of the strange folk that inhabit this blogosphere. This also means yiffing with Glenn Greenwald. That is not embedded in your brain.
Aji
@Mnemosyne: So stolen, Mnem. The “crime scene” part, I mean.
And your first conjecture is correct. Even though I wish I didn’t know that.
Aji
@Yatsuno: You should be disciplined for that. I can’t unsee that abomination, after all.
muddy
@Yatsuno: I am not familiar with the term, and refuse to look it up. Foiled you!
I got to thinking about John in a Tunch suit, and I thought since he is also big and pale, all he needs to pull it off is an orange tail. Distressingly though, he would probably refer to the tail as his “strap-on” and offer to choke people out with it.
Southern Beale
I’m confused, Plan B prevents pregnancy. Children can’t get pregnant. So pedophiles need it because …?
PsiFighter37
@Corner Stone: Well, this is pretty much a sign you don’t read closely, which is pretty much in-line with what I expect coming from you.
jonas
Did you know 97% of pedophiles used either public highways or public transportation to travel to the site where they abused a minor? Better blow all those things up to prevent further child abuse!
Corner Stone
@PsiFighter37: What do you mean? You said 12 years ago. Aren’t you like 22 now?
I’m not saying JSF fucked you or anything, just asking if when you were 10 he encouraged you to write slashfic as an outlet.
pluege
the stupid that goes on inside conservatives brains is just astounding. It must be horrible to be them.
nineone
I thought they weren’t going to talk about rape anymore. Y’know, rebrandings and autopsies, kinder, gentler outreacharounds and the like. Who the fuck is writing their shit anyway, the Gimp? If Cole is going to choke anyone out with a strap-on start with republicans (small ‘r’ – they don’t get to use the big letters until they grow the fuck up), and the whiny cow IngraScam should be near the front of the line.
FFS Mr. President, hurry up with those FEMA camps please.
zoot
@Southern Beale: lady folk commonly go through puberty as young as 9 years old. As dumb as conservatives are, I’m pretty sure they’re thinking any molester of girls younger than 18 are pedophiles.
p
gagging on ignorance and stupidity
and it’s not even 7:30 a.m.
brantl
The plan B that is publicly available, by the administration’s choice is the single dose.