The New Morning After Pill

Fireworks over New "Morning After Pill"?

FDA Panel Mulling "Ella," Which Works Up to 5 Days Later; Current Pill, "Plan B," Is Effective for 3 Days 

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  Harry Smith spoke with Dr. Jennifer Ashton about new birth control option 'Ella,' which is pending approval by the FDA.

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(CBS)  A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel was slated to meet Thursday to discuss approval of an emergency contraceptive pill, dubbed "Ella," that's already sold in 22 European countries.

"Ella" is expected to prove highly controversial here.

It's designed to prevent pregnancy if taken up to five days after intercourse, two more than "Plan B."

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On "The Early Show" Thursday, CBS News Medical Correspondent Dr. Jennifer Ashton observed that, "Obviously, there are heavy moral, ethical, social, even financial, political issues with this. We're going to stick to the medical ones, which really, for the most part -- most experts are saying the real big difference between Ella and Plan B is just the duration of time in which they can be used."

One thing raising eyebrows, co-anchor Harry Smith, is the chemical similarity between Ella and the so-called abortion pill, RU-486.

Plan B, Ashton explained, "is made of Levonorgestrel, which is a progesterone-like hormone compound. It can prevent pregnancy up to 72 hours after intercourse ... and it's about 85 percent effective. Ella, or the new one, works up to 120 hours, or five days. (It contains) Ulipristal Acetate, which works to moderate the progesterone effects on ovaries and possibly the uterus."

You don't need a prescription for Plan B in the U.S. If Ella is OK'd, it would only be available with a prescription.

As for Ella's side effects, Ashton says, the most common ones reported include nausea, headaches, abdominal or pelvic pain, menstrual-like pain, fatigue and dizziness -- you're always gonna see those things."

What will the panel and FDA be looking at in considering whether to approve Ella?

"Is it effective," Ashton responded, "does it work in the 120 hours, as it's said to? Is it safe? Obviously, always important. Do there need to be special recommendations for subpopulations, in terms of obese women, and will there be the potential for off-label use? They're going to have to address that."

FDA advisory committees don't have the final word on matters they take up. They're made up of outside experts who make recommendations to the agency, which makes the final decision -- though it usually heeds the advice of the panels. 

They openly admit that there are issues with the original pill, then why do they have to go out of their way to make a new one that does the same thing, when the issues are political!?

What poppes up when you type in "funny pope pictures" and more

I was looking for this picture of the pope and this popped up (below)

Now tell me what the heck is going on with the word when the popes face is put on condoms to make fun of him? It's a sad fact that this is influencing our children, our future is being told everything they see on TV is true (but they so happily don't show them EWTN or other Christian stations). If any one reading these has children, first off YOUR AWESOME! don't let anyone tell you other wise! Second of all don't let your kids believe everything they see, because that is what really gets us in the end is when the parents just let the kids sit their and don't even bother to tell them that what the new caster or talk show host said isn't true.


Oh and one more thing, the fact that people are using the sex scandals to try and show that the Church is horrible in more ways than one and it's just dumb, because the closer you get to the true faith the more the Devils going to try and pull you away and not everyone has the power to resist his power. Not everyone has the strength of the Saints, but we can if we just ignore Satan.


God Bless all,
Teen for Life

Health "Care", and what people are doing about it

"Note to House Reps: We'll remember in November

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 4/27/2010 6:20:00 AM

Major pro-life organizations are letting members of the U.S. House of Representatives know they haven't forgotten the vote approving healthcare reform.

The House's action on "ObamaCare" means federal funding for abortion, despite the president's executive order barring use of the money for that purpose. Dan Kennedy, CEO of Human Life of Washington, along with roughly 50 others, signed on to a letter sent to members of the House.

He explains, "The bottom line is we're telling the House of Representatives that we understand and that we think they understand that the executive order really does nothing" because the law as passed by Congress has more authority than a presidential edict.

"Sometimes Washington, DC, does a lot of posturing and thinks the flyover country is filled with idiots -- and we want to make sure that they understand that we understand what it's all about," Kennedy adds.

He believes healthcare reform is the most radical change America ation has experienced and that it is time to put a stop to it. "That's why the elections, I think, are the most immediate action that we can take," he comments. "This is critical for citizens to become involved with good candidates and to make sure they get elected."

The pro-life CEO notes that he does not think the public's memory will fade between now and November."

First off I just want to say YOU GO MAN!! I mean really how many times have people gone up to our state representatives and have been totally blown off, now these people are getting the press to turn there heads and see that there are peaceful pro-lifers out there. Also this man has a major point in one of his quotes, Congress thinks that were just going to sit back now that this "Health Care" bill has been passed. Well we need to show them that they are dead wrong, we need to pray that much harder, go out to abortion clinics even more if you can and stand outside and pray for them. We also need to pray for our congress men that someday they'll wake up from this nightmare and realize that there making a very big mistake in agreeing with this massacre of baby's.