Decision on "Plan B" Morning-after pill again delayed by the FDA

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Originally posted by: zendari

Originally posted by: shira

Originally posted by: zendari
Poor little pharma then I suppose. Liberals must be going nuts between their hatred of drug companies and their desire for sexual irresponsibility and promiscuity. Maybe Big Pharma should make this pill again to get on the libs good side.

For example, you oppose needle-exchange programs - proven time and again to reduce the incidence of HIV infection (and, by the way, to save the public approximately $100,000 per AIDS case) without increasing drug usage - because you can't stand the idea that ANY public program should cater to immoral behavior.

The true problem with this scenario is the public funding for people with aids, not the potential needle exchange program. I don't have a problem with druggies self-exterminating themselves if the government wouldn't insist on picking up the bill.

One of the few legitimate (IMHO) government goals should be to limit or eliminate the spread of disease. This should be done with things like the needle exchange program, government supported vaccination plans, and in extreme cases forced quarantine. The government should help fund research and production for cures to communicable diseases, which then should NOT be given exclusive patent to any one company, but produced and distributed by request of the government, at cost, as recompense for the money that the government sunk into their R&D departments. The government should NOT fund symptom relief drugs, or life extending drugs, like the AIDS cocktails, that do not cure the disease in such a way that the person can no longer transmit it.

The goal should be to prevent this disease from spreading, not to improve the life of those that have it. I know it is a harsh reality, but government is not here to make each individual?s life better, but to improve the average quality of life for the nation as a whole, and by helping people that can spread a disease to live a more normal life we are actually encouraging the spread of that disease.

Disease control should not be a partisan issue. Stopping a few people from shooting up heroin is a far lesser goal then wiping out disease. We need to stop putting something as stupid as the war on drugs above the goal of wiping out a disease that kills.