Plan B (reprise)

FDA has announced that it's moving to make the Plan B pill an over the counter drug available to women without a prescription.

Unless you're under 18. Then it's just tough luck. And if you get pregnant? Well Congress is doing its best to ensure that it will be illegal for your friends or even relatives to drive you across state lines for the purposes of letting you get an abortion. But don't worry, if you have to give that child up for adoption because you're too young or were raped by a family member, there are tons of social services available to help you and the child. Oh no, wait, hmmm, apparently there aren't. Ok, well, your tough luck, then.

And if you're 18 or older? Cross your fingers that your pharmacist will actually provide you with this legal medicine that you are entitled to. And that he/she isn't a psycho religious fanatic who thinks his/her personal belief system trumps your life.

Yes, indeed, at the dawn of the 21st century, isn't it just great to be a woman in America. In such wonderful full control of our lives and our bodies.

As long as we do as the administration says.

It's this sort of thing that always crosses my mind everytime somebody from the administration talks about fighting in Iraq & Afghanistan for women's rights. Like so many things, this is much easier to fight for it overseas than to deal with at home.