Parents Beware of Spitzer:
ByHas Elliot Spitzer given Republicans an opening? Spitzer in his drive for Governor yesterday claimed that he would sign legislation that would force pharmacists to let women and young girls buy the “morning after” pill without a prescription. If we recall Governor Pataki had vetoed the bill previously because he wanted young girls to get parental notification before purchasing it. Spitzer in his comments, said that “politics” should not decide, yet his support of the bill is completely based on politics.
Personally I think any Republican candidate can have a field day with this. There are millions of parents in this state who can have their stomachs turned by the thought of their 13-year-old daughter walking into CVS to buy a “morning after” pill without them knowing, which is what would happen if Spitzer signed the bill. Some well-placed commercials showing young girls abusing the drug, with the tag line “don’t you want to know what your daughter is doing”, should work wonders.
The pro-abortion groups love the bill and the idea of a “morning after” pill is ok with FDA approval for grown women if deemed legal to sell. This however is about people like Elliot Spitzer trying to remove my right and responsibility as a parent to monitor my child.
I find it absolutely hysterical that if a teenager wants to buy a pack of smokes they have to show ID that they’re 18, beer 21, an R rated movie 17 and even Hillary Clinton is trying to get a law passed that would make it illegal to sell a video game to a minor if the rating is M for mature. Yet some 14-year-old girl who wants to buy a powerful drug like the “morning after” pill, no problem.
The contraceptive bill that Elliot Spitzer wants to pass in its current state is nothing more then an attack on parenthood. Elliot for the first time has fumbled the ball and guys like Faso, Manning and Weld should pick it up and run with it.
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6 Comments
February 22nd, 2006 at 7:46 pm
Vertucci I plead with you to work for John Faso. Sign up as his political advisor and cut that commercial.
He’s already anti-choice, and having him use this as a campaign strategy will just highlight that and give Elliot the biggest gift. Pro-choice women like me will only see a man with an agenda who wants to take away women’s rights.
Look at how Doug Forrester was decimated when he veered anywhere near a right-wing talking point and had to flip-flop on his stem cell views and choice just to salvage his campaign.
Vertucci and your ilk you need to learn about liberal Republicans and Rockefeller Republicans and how Republicans used to act in NY to get elected. Your state party is so lost. Listen to Minarik who is a wingnut but knows what is needed to get elected and is pushing Liberal Republicans.
Instead you wankers think lines from Karl Rove playbooks will work in NY – a state that is overwhelmingly pro-choice.
Meghan XX OO
(Who hopes anti-choice Faso gets his party’s nomination.)
February 22nd, 2006 at 8:08 pm
Your comments as usual, have nothing to do with my comments that as parent my teenage daughter should not be allowed to go purchase such drugs without a prescription or my knowledge.
As I said the problem is not selling a morning after pill, the problem is the bill in its current state, which undermines the role of the parent.
February 22nd, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Vertucci are women not allowed to comment on your absurd political strategy for cutting an ad on this issue that you outlined in your post.
Please let me know what the rules are Vertucci because I am just a lowly women here to respond to what you would like.
You want a bite from me on the morning after-pill. Here you go. Teens are sexually active and screw up. They aren’t telling their parents about sex they are having, and if they tell their parents they are pregnant many will get thrown out or worse. Many are victims of abuse.
Not all parents are level-headed or act in the best interest of the child – likely why the child got pregnant in the first place because of parents who never discussed sexual issues, contraception.
I’ve seen it and have had friends go through it. I’m not pro-choice or agree with Spitzer’s stance because it sounds good, but because I’ve seen it and witnessed it and know it’s the right move.
Meghan XX OO
(Who still hopes Faso and Vertucci make the commercial and can’t wait for Spitzer and his yummy Progressive agenda to start-rolling.)
February 22nd, 2006 at 9:16 pm
I respect your passion but unfortunately your emotions lead you to exaggerate the issue.
“Many will get thrown our or worse”?
Lets be real here, are there a number of girls who have been abused or “thrown out” by unfit parents for such a mistake? Yes. Is it the epidemic that you make it out to be? No. The truth is that the majority of parents are not the devil worshipers you want to believe they are and are quite understanding of these things. I grew up in this city too, have had dozens of friends, seen everything from friends being killed, arrested, to having children, and no matter what, have always seen parents, including mine who cared. As a parent and former teenager, I can now appreciate what mine and other parents had to go through and what it must have been like considering the things we put them through.
If there is a parent who is going to abuse their daughter over getting pregnant, than that parent is unfit to begin with and a morning after pill is not going to save that teenager from abuse because they will most likely be abused over something else and have been abused since they were young.
The real point of the matter is that this pill is not like taking aspirin and the sensible parents in this state, who do make up the majority, have a right to be aware of what their child is doing. You want to raise a child, go have one. Then you can be this cool parent and have your own “Real World” in your house.
Whether teenage girls are having sex is not the point, the point is that they are the parents responsibility until they reach the legal recognized age of adulthood and therefore the parents should know what their children are doing and should have the comfort to know that the state is not going to try and undermine that responsibility.
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:09 am
You are so naive. It takes a village Vertucci not just a family. Many uniformed socially conservative parents won’t let their children make informed decisions about their options.
I have friends who got pregnant in their early teens and had abortions without parental consent (most clinics turn a blind eye to age requirements) and they know if they had told their parents they would have had to bring the pregnancy to term.
If you are old enough to be having sex and get pregnant, then you can choose to terminate a pregnancy. It’s that simple.
A woman doesn’t become devoid of her civil rights and control of her body and shouldn’t be forced to make a decision by her parents that will impact her for the next 18 years of her life just because she is a few years shy of being 18.
Your not a woman so you can’t understand that. It’s always the conservative wingnut males who want to control our bodies.
Parents make wrong decisions and uniformed decisions and a woman, no matter what age, has the authority to control her own private reproductive health.
Meghan XX OO
(Who knows Spitzer will pass this legislation easily and Vertucci should just move to Alabama with the rest of the Hallelujah wingnut crowd.)
February 25th, 2006 at 6:50 pm
“It takes a village…not just a family”
I’m sorry you feel that way. You must have had a really disappointing experience.
I’m even more disappointed though that you think so little of the power of the family and that someone like you, who I would bet has no experience in raising a family, thinks she knows all about it and can do a better job because somebody wrote a book saying so.
I really love the whole irony how you sit there and constantly tell people to “stay out of your womb” but have now problem trying to pry open the door of my home to tell me how to raise my children.