Plan B One-Step primer: No testing in teen population; average age was 27 years

Girls as young as 15 can now purchase Plan B One-Step over the counter without needing parental permission.

Photo of product from manufacturer's Web page.Almost all the debate around a federal judge’s regulatory decision has centered around the politics. What’s missing from that debate is a discussion on health risks and proper use. This is especially important because teens tend to get advice on such matters from friends or family members. No doctor will be part of the process should a teen decide to take it.

There are risks and no one is discussing them.

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Obama mentions pay for First Lady amid contraception fracas: Condoms, anyone?

Following the standard of reasoning set by Obama and Fluke, the government should force insurers to cover condoms. (Photo; The US Report)In another in a long (extremely long) line of campaign appearances, Obama told supporters in the swing state of Colorado where he spoke in Denver:

"...I wanna make sure that when she's working she is getting paid the same as men, I gotta say that First Ladies right now don't, even though that's a tough job!"

The president was introduced by Constitutional illiterate Sandra Fluke.

Fluke and Obama are missing a key pillar in the contraceptive debate that really isn't about contraception at all.

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Having voted for Obama, why are Catholics surprised at his abortion policy?

 As evidenced by the banner at the US Dept. of Health and Human Services, the organization's 'goal' is unconstitutional. (US Govnmt. and taxpayers' image)

Obama’s policies on abortion are as far left as you can get, as noted at Issues2000. Among them:

“On March 30, 2001, Obama was the only Illinois senator who rose to speak against a bill that would have protected babies who survived late term labor-induced abortion. Obama rose to object that if the bill passed, and a nine-month-old fetus survived a late-term labor-induced abortion was deemed to be a person who had a right to live, then the law would ‘forbid abortions to take place.’ Obama further explained the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not allow somebody to kill a child, so if the law deemed a child who survived a late-term labor-induced abortion had a right to live, ‘then this would be an anti-abortion statute.’"

Sounds like political doublespeak to me. Late term abortion is a fixed term—nothing flexible about it. I know supporters of abortion rights in some circumstances who are horrified at the prospect of late term abortion. Why are pro-Obama Catholics horrified at Obama's policy now?

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