These folks have told one lie after the other. As a matter of fact, many of the women’s reproductive rights groups were hotting mad at Kathleen Sebelius and President Obama because girls under 15 had to have parental permission to get the morning after pill.
According to mediaite.com:
The Fox News watchdogs over at Media Matters have flagged another clip of conservative commentator Laura Ingraham saying something “outrageous,” which is a bit like flagging a clip of the sky being blue, but in the process, they missed the big, fat lie that Fox and Friends‘ Steve Doocy told about President Obama‘s policy on Plan B emergency contraception. The Justice Department has dropped its appeal of a judge’s ruling that the drug be made available over-the-counter, without age restrictions, which Ingraham called a “good deal for pedophiles” and statutory rapists.
In a bit of surely unintentional irony, Ingraham pivoted from saying “I wish we had people on Capitol Hill, more of them, who are more informed and more curious about the abuse of federal power,” to wishing that the federal government would use its power to override science and medical privacy. Asked about yesterday’s decision, by the Justice Department, to stop the Obama administration’s tooth-and-nail fight to keep age restrictions on Plan B, Ingraham said “It’s a good deal for pedophiles, good deal for people who commit statutory rape against young girls.”
You have got to be kidding me. Anyone who has followed this story for more than a second knows that the Obama administration has taken all sorts of heat from the women’s reproductive rights groups for insisting on having an age limit. Then the courts overturned the age restriction.
“The Obama administration now extraordinarily has said that girls of any age, actually I would imagine men as well,could have access to the morning after pill,” Doocy said, noting that “for a while it was like 17, you had to be at least 17,” but not anymore.
As we’ve already established, it wasn’t the Obama administration that decided to lift age restrictions on Plan B, it was Reagan-appointed U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman. What makes Doocy’s incorrect statement particularly egregious, though, is that he then goes on to mention the previous age restriction, without explaining how that restriction came to be.
In December of 2011, the Obama administration decided to overrule the Food and Drug Administration’s determination that Plan B should be available over the counter, with no age restriction. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sibelius announced that the drug would be available to women and girls 17 and older, but would still require a prescription for those under 17. At that time, President Obama sold the ruling by evoking images of little girls being marketed Plan B “alongside bubble gum and batteries.”
That decision was struck down in April by Judge Korman, who blasted the Obama administration in his ruling. Even after that ruling, the Obama administration not only continued to appeal, it re-labeled the drug “not for sale to those under 15 years of age *proof of age required* not for sale where age cannot be verified,” ignoring the judge’s order.
None of this has been politically easy for the Obama administration, which has taken a lot of heat from liberals over this policy. Initially, I was among those who agreed with Judge Korman that the age restrictions were “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable… politically motivated, scientifically unjustified, and contrary to agency precedent.”
Steve Doocy seems as though he would lie even if telling the truth would be easier–anything to slam the Obama administration it seems. That’s too bad. Doocy needs to be truthful so Americans can have the necessary dialogue. Now isn’t the time to play politics as usual. Meanwhile, Fox and Friends and Laura Ingraham need to stop lying, if that’s possible.
I will still ponder why Plan B might be a “good deal for pedophile and statutory rapists.” Can someone tell me how Plan B might be twisted into a good deal for sexual predators? I have searched my data base and nothing seems to be popping up.
This is what Doocy does – and Fox has been getting worse with half-truths and intertwining stories to try and make political points. Currently, there is not one story line where they do not bring up Benghazi or the IRS – is this how they increase ratings?
In regards to Plan B – this is less regulation, isn’t that what they are always squawking about?? IMO, there are many drugs that one should be able to purchase without first seeing a physician. Thankfully, allergy meds such as Claritan and Zyrtec have been made available over the counter, which allows me to get them without first visiting the Doc.
Love that claratin. It sure has gotten me through the spring.
Yes, the judge ordered less regulation than the Obama administration wanted.
I will still ponder why Plan B might be a “good deal for pedophile and statutory rapists.” Can someone tell me how Plan B might be twisted into a good deal for sexual predators? I have searched my data base and nothing seems to be popping up.
I suppose someone could construe this statement to mean there wouldn’t be a pregnancy with which to link a pedophile or statutory rapist – and, therefore, if no DNA were captured by other means (rape kit) these guys would be free to rape and pillage at their leisure.
Or that a minor would have to point out to a pharmacist or other adult that sex had occurred, at all.
Of course, nothing prevents the adult predator from buying said drugs and bringing them home, since they are not prescription.
I just think the adult predator concept is far fetched. I have no problem with the administration plan. At what point are kids too young to be chosing their own medicine? That’s my thought.
I just think Laura and Doocy deliberately misrepresented the situation and lied about the Obama administration, again.