CRR: Unrestricted access to Plan B – even at the expense of Teenage Girls

By Lisa Correnti | December 9, 2011

No other proof is needed then this latest fundraising email from staunch international pro-abortion group, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR), that their only objective is unrestricted sexual and reproductive rights for all, regardless of a young girls age and the associated health risks.

CRR expressed shock in the recent Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) decision to prevent the FDA from removing the age restriction for adolescent girls to access Plan B – the morning-after pill.

HHS did the right thing; there has not been adequate studies conducted on young girls whose reproductive system may still be developing – and this, is just the medical reason not to do it.

Nowhere in the CRR fundraising email do they tell their subscribers that the objection to lowering the age restriction is out of concern for young girls. The president of CRR, Nancy Northrup writes that the refusal is unprecedented:

“For the first time in history, an HHS Secretary overruled the FDA to deny women over the counter emergency contraception. Women deserve better.”

Well Nancy, its time to grow up and act like an adult. Adolescent girls are not women. They should not be making these decisions on their own. As adults we are supposed to put politics aside in the best interest of our children.

The email goes on to say that CRR needs your money to fight back to achieve the ultimate goal of making emergency contraception available to all women.

“We’re already fighting back. Next Tuesday, we’ll be heading into federal court to hold the FDA accountable for broadening access to emergency contraception as science, reason, and [as]a federal judge demands. It’s the best chance we have of changing the momentum on this issue—and achieving our ultimate goal of making all forms of EC easily available to women of all ages, Northrup concludes.”

Again, nowhere in the email does Nancy tell you that emergency contraception is already available to all women 17 years and older without a prescription.

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