Can someone tell me why some insurance plans won't let you purchase 2 packs of the pill at once? I've always liked having an extra in case I lost one or something. When I travelled a lot/long periods of time it was necessary to have two packs on hand, otherwise I'd have a break in my schedule (a very bad thing).

Are a lot of women finding it difficult to be seen by an OB/GYN. My physician has SIX MONTH waiting period for non-emergency visits. Holy crap, do you know how difficult it is to schedule and appointment six months out? My insurance plan could change way before then and my doctor might not be within the plan. Or I could move. Or I could be on a business trip. And if I have to reschedule, then I have to hope that my doctor will call in an extension since the prescription is only good for 12 months.

Off-topic question, did I see someone post that hormonal BC is good for IBS? Hmm, I would switch back to a hormonal form of BC if that was true (and if I could find one that didn't kill my sex drive). Then I could get off the anti-anxiety meds.

Oh god, it was so fustrating! I just wanted to smack Hasselbeck when she spouted that line about EC being the same are leaving a baby out on the street. And then her line about "the same people that want the government out of their lives, also want universal healthcare." ARGHHH! If anything, a lack of universal healthcare is MORE like leaving a baby out on the street than using EC.

I also hated how Joy's scenario about her and her husband having a BC accident was brushed off, that they wouldn't need EC because they could afford to have another child. It's NOT just about being able to afford a child, it's about being prepared and wanting a child. My husband and I could certainly afford to raise a child, but we aren't ready yet, that's why we use birth control. We want the best for our family, and that is having a child after my husband finishes school, after we have more than one year of marriage under our belts. We want to have a healthy child, so that means that I need to be off of my current meds and taking pre-natal vitamins. Families need to be able to plan their families so they and their children can have the best lives and opportunities possible. So maybe for Joy and her husband, they don't want to raise at child at age 50. That Joy's health isn't up for a pregnancy, that they don't feel that they could be good parents, for a whole set of reasons. So the best thing for them is to use EC as a back up.

And to Hasselback ranting that a fertilized egg is life and valuable and EC kills it. There may not even be an egg to be fertilized, EC may prevent ovaluation, so there is still no fertilized egg to interfere with. And if even if there is a fertilized egg, which may become a fetus, which may become a baby, I don't find that the value of that possible life, is more than the existing life that would be impacted by an unwanted or unprepared for pregnancy.

As for the line of women up at Planned Parenthood after a long weekend(I'd say there's some hyperbole in that statement), anyway my guess is that they their primary form of BC is "periodic abstinence", but "got lucky" that weekend. Since they aren't having sex on a regular basis, they don't have a primary form of birth control and need EC. I can understand this, lots of women don't like being on hormonal BC if they don't need to be. Yeah, they probably should have used a condom, and maybe they should have practiced more self-restraint...but aren't people that do irresponsible things, exactly the group of people that should wait to have kids?

Hey, you can't really just paint VA as a red state. Our past two governors have been Democrats, in the last Presidential Elections VA voted 54% for Bush, not really a sweeping mandate there. And it's not just NoVa that votes Democrat. I'm in the city of Richmond, which went 70% to Kerry/Edwards. And in the county where Allen made his remarks (Dickenson County), it split 51% for Kerry/Edwards and 48% for Bush/Cheney. Dickenson county's, US Rep is a Dem. Dickenson did go with for Kilgore gov (51%), but that was the only race in which the county went Republican. And you would be wrong to say that Dickenson county is "Allen people" since they didn't help put him in office...they went with Robb in 2000!