Guttmacher Spokesperson: Use of Morning After Pill increasing but “there’s room for improvement”

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More U.S. women using “morning-after” pill: study – Yahoo! News.

The above article purports a single mechanism of Plan B, levonorgestrel, to operate by stopping ovulation.  It is known that progestin-only (a class of hormone analogs)  pills perform this job very  poorly, or not at all if taken in the latter third of the fertile period of a human female.   The media claim that this is their only operative mechanism of action would hinge upon extremely poor performance,  a failure rate of  approximately 40 percent per use.

From the Prescribing information of Plan B One-Step:

CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY
12.1 Mechanism of Action
Emergency contraceptive pills are not effective if a woman is already pregnant. Plan B One-Step is believed to act as an emergency contraceptive principally by preventing ovulation or fertilization (by altering tubal transport of sperm and/or ova). In addition, it may inhibit implantation (by altering the endometrium). It is not effective once the process of implantation has begun.

Note that it contradicts the above linked article by mentioning the fact that levonorgestrel affects the endometrium and may act to inhibit implantation.  This stops the life of a human embryo at the blastocyst stage of development, and is one of the bases for controversy concerning dispensing and use of this form of birth control.  Unmentioned in the package insert is that effect on tubal transport also influences the transport of the very early embryo prior to implantation. 

Here’s the quote of the year concerning Plan B:

“It has more than doubled since the last time the data were collected,” said Megan L. Kavanaugh, a senior research associate at the Guttmacher Institute in New York who worked on the study.

However, she said in an interview, “its use still seems relatively low, given that it’s easy to access. So there’s room for improvement.”

Somehow, in the fevered brain of Ms. Kavanaugh  it represents an improvement to fail in the more reliable forms of preventing pregnancy, and require the use of the LEAST reliable modality, the morning after pill, tossed over the counter by the local pharmacist, who could be  censured for attempting to ascertain  clinically appropriate application of the drug.   Kavanaugh credits the media, and not health care professionals, for stimulating the increase in this dependency.  (A tiny silver lining in this cloud.)

The above article suggests that the number of women who require afterthought birth control is on the rise, since the levonorgestrel form of morning after pill has been given over the counter status, and that this is a positive development.   It is one more reason that women should not obtain medical information and advice from the mainstream media.

The prescriber info of Plan B One-Step admits to a failure rate of  16 percent, per use  (which corroborates  the multiple mechanisms of action), and admits to the cumulative problem of failure should a woman rely on the morning after pill  as her main form of birth control.

How does the Guttmacher institute spell “improvement”??  Birth control failure.   It sells abortion.

Retraction Watch: Eminent Surgeon Censored and Punished for Editorializing on the Salutary Effects of Semen

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Forget chocolate on Valentine’s Day, try semen, says Surgery News editor. Retraction, resignation follow « Retraction Watch.

You might want to  link to Retraction watch itself, if you have an interest in freedom of speech, scientific progress, and the issue of political correctness.

Dr. Lazar Greenfield, an eminent surgeon and inventor has been drummed out of his position as Editor in Chief of the ACS (American College of Surgeons)  for having too much fun while writing an editorial.

He noted a study concluding that women who use condoms, and abstinent women suffer more depression than women who do not use condoms during sex, and related it to the salutary components found in semen, and the efficiency of the vaginal mucosa as an avenue of drug delivery.

His offense was to ruffle the feathers of the feminazis by stating that semen may confer myriad chemical benefits, and to  imply that this is one reason that women really need men.

The ACS, afflicted by overdoses of estrogen, and without a sense of the hormone’s  utility,  has ‘temporarily’  removed the entire issue containing Greenfield’s editorial from its website.

Pharmer pasted her own comment to the news article at Retraction Watch:

Both sex and abstinence are very good, in their respective ‘seasons’.  It’s likely that depression during abstinence is  more frequently  from a loss of hope in finding a worthwhile partner, and exacerbated by a lack of  good memories to fall back on.

Theories that the offended censors are dwelling in a prolonged stage of hopelessness are not without basis.

Greenfield’s take on the evidence for physiological bases of sex attraction is hilarious, and should not have been removed, nor should he have been otherwise punished.

The humorless lefties who hate the existence of  sexual dimorphism  should not be permitted to rule over the rest of us, who appreciate it.

Pharmer would have been expecting  comparative clinical trials  of chocolate by oral delivery vs. vaginal instillation of semen  (normal  sex)  for antidepressant efficacy,  had the PC police not clamped down with their suppression of scientific inquiry.

See Obama’s April 25th, 2011 version of his birth certificate

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White House Releases Obama’s Long-Form Birth Certificate – FoxNews.com.

Yes, it is the 4/25/11 edition, a supposed copy of the long form, with no seal, and of course it’s genuine.

Thank Donald Trump for inspiring this latest effort.

Click HERE for a look — and see  the term “African” used to designate a race.

Also amuse yourself with the sharp edged black corner in the upper left of the 4/25/11 version. This is not what happens when you copy out of a book. Try it and see.

Read the story of Kapi’Olani hospital.

Gaia = Mother Earth Demoted to Human Status by the Leftists

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U.N. Prepares to Debate Whether ‘Mother Earth’ Deserves Human Rights Status – FoxNews.com.

Attention all you Gaia worshippers!   The lefties have been denigrating your religion with the new policy to accord human rights to Mother Nature.

That’s Right!  Your god has been demoted to Mere human status!!

Your religion has been dragged through the mud by the lefties, and dissed in a similar manner to Christianity.

Under the Bus, Gaia!   You can now be sued, just like any other human.  In addition,  (in case you become sick or disabled)  there’s a reason to consider new problems associated with the demotion:  abortion and euthanasia.

Dr. Elaina George Points at IPAB, the Death Panel

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» The Administration’s Answer To High Healthcare Costs is…. Rationing – Big Government.

The unelected 15 member Death Panel, known as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, is created to ration Obamacare.

Sick people won’t have the energy to fight through the roadblocks that this group will put in the way of obtaining health care, and will obligingly Die, for lack of access to the promised  “free” services.

Dr. Elaina George recognizes both the death panel, and the cronyism that drives Obamacare in her article, linked above.

We Could Have A Real American For President

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The fading lamestream media would tell you that Republicans do not have strong contenders for the next presidential race. Wrong! There are a bunch of good ones, including Herman Cain, a successful American Businessman, who could easily smash the Arugula Eater in a debate. Here’s a guy who could lead America out of the economic abyss. Listen up!

Your iPhone is Watching You

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iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go | Technology | guardian.co.uk.

There’s a hidden program which  records a log  of your movements (as long as you’re carrying your phone or iPad) and stores them on a hidden file which is then synced with your computer.

You can learn more about your iPhone snooper HERE, and obtain a program which will show you where the file is on your computer and let you see what’s in it.

Apple doesn’t want to tell us too much about this, but insists that it’s not for specfically spying on you, but for use with location based applications.

While you’re having fun with digital data,  Look HERE.