I was scheduled to be on CNN’s new online “Live” format last Thursday, before they knew what the “topic of the day would be”. Turned out to be the FDA’s approval to allow Plan B, a.k.a “the morning-after pill”, to be sold to 17 year-olds after they were ordered by a U.S. District Court to do so. The judge also ordered the FDA to re-evaluate whether all age restrictions should be removed, following a determination that the Bush Administration’s FDA had used politics, for years, instead of science, in determining whether Plan B was safe and effective enough to be sold over the counter.
Here’s the video from my appearance along with a coupla other bloggers, Rachel Campos Duffy of AOL’s parentdish and Gina Cooper from GinaCooper.com (she blogged about her appearance here). No comment on the use of the cutesy “Blogger Bunch” name for the segment, or for the allegation that Brad “leans to the Left” during the intro, even though Rachel, who doesn’t “lean”, but rather seems to live “on the Right” isn’t described as such. But, as I say, no comment on any of that. I look forward to being invited back again soon…
There’s got to be a morning after . . .
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Good work, Brad.
I really, really wish someone would pipe up and state that it doesn’t matter how young the girl is, if she doesn’t want a baby, she should not be MADE to give birth to one, especially when there are safe means to avoid it, including Plan B, and abortion if they’ve really messed up. That isn’t a parent’s prerogative. Parents don’t have the right to dictate their daughters’ uterine output, so to speak, whether they will become parents before they’ve even gotten out of junior high. That is what that woman was trying to avoid blurting out. She wants the fear of pregnancy to prevent her daughter from messing around. That might have worked on some girls up to sixty or seventy years ago, but it has ceased to work long since.
Anyway, no matter what age you are, or what your parents think, you do not have to have a baby just because they think it’s murder if you don’t. It isn’t up to them to make your punishment for having sex to put your baby up for adoption and leave you with that ache until you die.
I hate people who shove their own religious views down the throats of their children. It’s child abuse.
I always suspected you were a “radical leftist”, now we know! Thank you CNN!
Again, message to conservatives: mind your own business and KEEP OUT OF PEOPLES’ BEDROOMS AND SEX LIVES AND MARRIAGES! MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS! That seems more of an anti-big govt conservative sentiment than a leftist one, actually.
Old US, “From the womb to the tomb”
New US, “In the womb…fuck ya”
Way to go Brad – getting in the last word and everything. Looks like you the the babe to the left (no pun intended) pretty well showed the gal on the right that she just wasn’t “right” after all! And way to go getting on CNN – movin’ up, move on up!
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That woman looked aghast when you called her bullshit. She was shocked and awed.
Nicely done, Brad. Your ending argument exposed the irrationality of the religious right on this particular issue.
Rachel Campos Duffy: “I need to be able to help my daughter according to my values”
Right, and that worked how well for Bristol Palin?
Good job Brad’ you even pwned the CNN science advisor, LOL.