Dear Michele: There Is No Such Thing As A ‘Morning-After Abortion Pill’

[pokerfan]

Of course, her and her ilk are no doubt against contraception so it doesn't really matter. She might as well call it the morning after baby-killing drug.

As I was (briefly) watching Fox and Friends this morning, I heard Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) reference the “morning-after abortion pill,” the second time I’ve heard a GOP candidate mention the mythical drug in the past week. Host Steve Doocy failed to correct Bachmann, and although this bit of misinformation hasn’t spread much yet, I’d like to dispel it before it attaches itself to the media’s uterine wall. Any interviewer who hears this phrase has a duty to correct it.

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But the fact is, Plan B is not an “abortion pill,” it is an emergency contraceptive. In fact, as the drug label clearly states, it won’t work if you’re pregnant.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/dear-media-theres-no-such-thing-as-a-morning-after-abortion-pill

[Richardo]

1. "...I’d like to dispel it before it attaches itself to the media’s uterine wall."

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[pokerfan]

2. yeah, that was sheer brilliance

Mediaite has become one of my favorite blogs over the last year.

[Liberal Veteran]

3. It doesn't take much to start a meme, but once it has metastasized the prognosis is poor.

"Death panels"
"Partial Birth Abortion"
"Welfare Queens"
"Union Thugs"

It's a constant game of whack-a-mole.

[HockeyMom]

4. As an old lady, NO there is no such thing as Morning After Pill

It is just a marketing gimmic of what women already on the Pill have been doing for DECADES. Forget to take your pill? Just double or triple up on it.

Sometimes I wonder what these moron religious nuts would like to do with women already ON the Pill. BAN it I suppose.

[LeftinOH]

5. The 'War on Birth Control' is the second front. They've been battling

Roe vs Wade for nearly 40 years; now they are chipping away at reproductive rights from a different angle.. hoping the two efforts will meet, pincer-style.

[pokerfan]

6. to them it's all the same

so the conflation is deliberate.

[spanone]

7. don't interrupt her fantasy....what's amazing is that she holds a seat in the u.s. congress

[nadine_mn]

8. shhh even now, I (along with other Minnesotans) am closing the gates from Iowa to MN

so she cannot come back here