Iam a retired MD and can remember well when the birth control pill first came on the market.My initial response was if you were not married I was against perscribing the pill.How wrong I was to impose my values on anyone who chose to disagree. I saw people of all religious persuasions requesting the pill married or not married,no matter their age. They were all of the child bearing age and sexually active . The unfortunate ones that happened to become pregnant ended up in unsavory situations not oftened medically safe .

We have come a long way. The politicians are wrong to impose their views in order to get elected. More power to the people who are willing to help the women who request help in preventing unwanted pregnancy

I, too, have once used Getthepill.com. My doctor at the time refused to issue me with a prescription for emergency contraception "in case", as Planned Parenthood and others recommend; instead, she said that if I ever needed it I should call the office and stay on the line until I got the prescription. When I did need it, of course, I was out of town and she was not at work. Planned Parenthood said I would need to make an appointment; my doctor's office said the soonest they could see me was in several weeks. I googled emergency contraception and found Dr. Wise's site, and only a few hours later I had my pills. (No side effects, either.)

I did not know until today, however, that this site is basically the work of one person. Our thanks, Dr. Wise. I have distributed this site's name to my colleagues, and they in turn have distributed it to students at the university where I teach.

Just one piece of advice: if you have an agreeable doctor, do get a prescription ahead of time. It saves the terror of going into the pharmacy hoping that this pharmacist will do their job and dispense your medicine, with the 72 hours ticking in your head.

It seems to me that this fight over Plan B (and similarly, RU-486) may actually represent a larger and more important battle on the abortion front than even the debate over an O'Connor replacement. I sense that the power brokers who have successfully tapped the abortion debate to energize the right understand something about Plan B and similar technologies; they represent the beginning of the end of making the abortion debate technologically obsolete.

Although it may be decades in coming, I think those that would exploit the debate see Plan B as a threat to one of their core issues. If people really begin to understand that Plan B isn't even, medically speaking, a method of abortion, and if Plan B is just the first of a number of advanced contraceptive technologies, than an issue that has served GOP strategists well for years might finally disappear.

I don't think we're seeing a fight against Plan B, so much as a fight to prevent the end-game from happening and preserve the abortion debate as long as possible. While I can sympathize with and even respect those that oppose abortion on moral grounds, those that would exploit the debate are nothing less than reprehensible, and liberals and pro-choice moderates need to realize just how important this fight over Plan B is.