Carnival of Cordite #38 is up over at Gullyborg. Included is my very first contribution, a Wal-Mart boycott to go with your BUYcott, for this year’s Ammo Day.
I originally suggested that Jacqueline Mackie Paisley Passey blog about this, seeing as she is both a woman and a Libertarian, but she failed to take the bait. Then, days later, I posted a comment over at Nashville is Stalking, but brittney either lost it, never got it, or failed to approve the comment for some reason. It’s funny how that only happens to me when I post to lefty feminists type blogs. Oh well, no explanation is needed, they have their forum and I have mine.
The meat of the matter is here: Rape victim: ‘Morning after’ pill denied
Although it is safe, effective and legal, emergency contraception - the “morning after” pill - can be hard to find in Tucson.
After a sexual assault one recent weekend, a young Tucson woman spent three frantic days trying to obtain the drug to prevent a pregnancy, knowing that each passing day lowered the chance the drug would work.
While calling dozens of Tucson pharmacies trying to fill a prescription for emergency contraception, she found that most did not stock the drug.
When she finally did find a pharmacy with it, she said she was told the pharmacist on duty would not dispense it because of religious and moral objections.
“I was so shocked,” said the 20-year-old woman, who, as a victim of sexual assault, is not being named by the Star. “I just did not understand how they could legally refuse to do this.”
But many stores are. A 2004 survey of more than 900 Arizona pharmacies found less than half keep emergency contraception drugs in stock, with most saying there is too little demand, but some cite moral reasons, according to the Arizona Family Planning Council.
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Now upon hearing that one of my local pharmacists would refuse to sell something like ?Plan B’, I would refuse to spend my dollars there, even though I’m male and the decision does not really effect me. Some of the commenters were saying that because they were state licensed Pharmacist, they should be forced by the government to dispense the medication even if the Pharmacist was personally against anyone using the medicine. The idea that just because they are licensed by the state means anything is just crazy. Should gas stations, licensed by the state, sell gas 24/7 just because they are near the freeway and someone might run out of gas? Should all Doctors be forced to have weekend hours just because some people might get sick? Although I don’t necessarily support abortion, I don’t believe it’s the the governments place to either outlaw the procedure nor force someone to sell a product. For a feminist to say otherwise is to promote a double standard. Next time, call for a boycott. It’s your money, you and your like minded friends can spend it any way you want.
I’m a male so this isn’t the type of Standard Mischief I’d normally post in my blog, but Planned Parenthood has an excellent page on making your own :
Pill Brand Manufacturer Pills per Dose
Alesse? Wyeth-Ayerst 5 pink pills
Aviane? Duramed 5 orange pills
Cryselle? Barr 4 white pills
Enpress? Barr 4 orange pills
Lessina? Barr 5 pink pills
Levlen? Berlex 4 light orange pills
Levlite? Berlex 5 pink pills
Levora? Watson 4 white pills
Lo/Ovral? Wyeth-Ayerst 4 white pills
Low-Ogestrel? Watson 4 white pills
Nordette? Wyeth-Ayerst 4 light orange pills
Ogestrel? Watson 2 white pills
Ovral? Wyeth-Ayerst 2 white pills
Portia? Barr 4 pink pills
Seasonale? Barr 4 pink pills
Tri-Levlen? Berlex 4 yellow pills
Triphasil? Wyeth-Ayerst 4 yellow pills
Trivora? Watson 4 pink pills
(Just for the record, I think you need 2 doses, spaced 12 hours apart, and the above lists the number of pills per dose. Before relying on me, the guy that’s not a Doctor, for medical advice, you really ought to talk to/call/consult a Doctor or pro-emergency contraceptive Pharmacist. At the very least, click on the link and read the Planned Parenthood website)
You see, emergency contraceptive isn’t some kinda special, pure unobtainum mojo. It’s just a large dose of everyday birth control pills that prevents pregnancy by preventing an egg from implanting. If Planned Parenthood is charging $70, it’s so it can offer the pills to people in need at a lower cost. I’ve never bought anything but over the counter type birth control but I don’t think the pill is that expensive. Those dummies that refuse to sell ?plan B’ more than likely stock one or more types of birth control pills.
Let’s all take a lesson from hurricane Katrina. When the chips are down, the last thing you want to do is rely on the government to bail you out. In a free county, business have a right to be able to run their business as they see fit. I have a spare tire. I have a first aid kit. I have a few days of food and a plan to leave town and stay at my brother’s in an emergency. While I think I might have a problem convincing my Doctor that I need some reserve birth control pills, I imagine it would not be a problem for most women. I’d imagine that every woman knows one or two other ladies that might be using the Pill. In a emergency, I wouldn’t deny a friend some of my medication. Encourage this. It’s easy, smart and makes sense. Push for the availability of more drugs without a prescription, because I’m there with you, but keep your laws off my Pharmacist.
Update 2005-11-15: Please see this post first for an update
I know I’m a late comer to the fold, but I’d like to let everyone know I’m fully behind the concept of National Ammo Day.
The idea here is this is an ammunition BUYcott. What you are doing is here is letting people know, by voting with your dollars, of your support of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms. You go to your local gun store, hardware store, or department store and buy at least 100 round to put in the hands of the normally law abiding. November 19 is the day, and if you have any more questions, you can click on the above link and get more information.
Having said that, I’d like to add one more small request. This year after the hurricane Katrina, Mall-Wart decided that it would be best if they shut down their sales of firearms. I’m sure most of my readers are RKBA supporters and they understand how important the firearms were to the protection of the non-looting public. I would like to request that this year, that you do your BUYcott somewhere else, anywhere else than Mall-Wart. Hopefully they will see a little dip in sales and make the connection.
Mall-Wart can sell what they want, and I’m sure they thought the shutdown either made themselves look better or covered their asses. After all, they would hate to have had sold anything to the looters. But looters loot and the shutdown affected mostly just innocent people. Let’s vote with our dollars and let Mall-Wart know that next time, doing that would be a bad idea.
And as a final note, If you know me and I haven’t taken you plinking lately, or at all, and you are interested, please let me know. If you are a non-firearm owner you don’t have to buy your own ammo, but you are welcome to go support ammo day anyway.
Update 2005-11-10: There seems to be a number of people who are planning to coordinate their purchase at the same time at Mall-Wart. Besides the fact that y’all have failed to even try to munge the store’s proper name, and the store in question most likely googles regularly for it’s own trademark (so it won’t really be a surprise), I’m of the opinion that the message I’m trying to send (a one day boycott of only one class of product) is a bit more important than your fun. Is there any way I can get you to change your mind? Perhaps put it off for a bit?
There also seems to be the suggestion of picking up a copy of Red Dawn on DVD. I love it! I haven’t seen that movie in a few years but it’s one of my favorites. Ordinary people pick up arms and make a difference in the fight against a foreign enemy. Very un-politically correct, we are suppose to let the military keep us safe. I’ll likely join you here, but no ammo.
