Flimsy Sanity: I solve the Abortion Issue

Flimsy Sanity

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Thursday, December 01, 2005

I solve the Abortion Issue

I have a simple solution to the abortion question - make it illegal already and get on with it. This topic is partially responsible for the piss poor politicians and gestapo judges we have in power. Then, after it is illegal, screw following the law. Let the folks who supply the country with marijuana, cocaine, heroin, crack, etc. supply Plan B and RU486. We don't need coathangers anymore. Times have changed. Let every teen girl carry a pill and every teen boy a condom. The little dumb girl too scared to talk to someone about current birth controls who thinks she is in love with some dumb boy while both are at the peak of natural lust would get a second chance.
There is nowhere in North America where anyone who wants illegal drugs cannot get them, so the delivery system is already in place. A few pills would be easier to transport than bales of weed. The drug industry is huge but I'm sure they are insatiable money-grubbers or do you suppose they are too "moral" for my proposal? Here's a statistic:
"[T]he value of the global illicit drug market for the year 2003 was estimated at US$13 bn [billion] at the production level, at $94 bn at the wholesale level (taking seizures into account), and at US$322bn based on retail prices and taking seizures and other losses into account. This indicates that despite seizures and losses, the value of the drugs increase substantially as they move from producer to consumer."
Source: United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), World Drug Report 2005 (Vienna, Austria: UNODC, June 2005), p. 127.
Contrast that with this:
chart on generic drug markups, and we know name brands are even more.

Since Big PHRMA has a bigger markup than the illegal drug industry women will be better off if it is illegal. Worried about safety that comes from not consulting conventional medical entities?

Last spring, scientists at the University of Toronto announced the results of a new study: By their calculations, the fourth-leading cause of death in the United States is FDA-approved prescription drugs. They weren't talking about drug abuse or overdoses, but rather, appropriately administered drugs. Side effects, they determined, cause close to 106,000 deaths per year. That's more deaths than the annual totals for AIDS, suicide, and homicide combined, and equal to an astonishing 290 deaths per day.
Mother Jones, Nov. 1998, p. 39

6 Comments:

  • At 7:53 AM, Blogger -G.D. said…

    Very interesting use of sarcasm. Good mix of otherwise common words.

    Give 'em what they want....make them drown in their own shit.

    Great blog.

     
  • At 9:52 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Excellent idea. The one concern I have is for women who can not afford to buy the high price online drugs. But, then we would probably get a little underground thingie going. As for me personally, I avoid Dr.'s and Rx drugs like the plague and stay healthier than most of my friends. I say that humbly as I never know what may loom up in the future, but for now, I'll go natural.

     
  • At 10:07 AM, Blogger Shephard said…

    Likewise, I avoid pharms and doctors and stay healthy. You go when you need to, not when paranoia sets in. Shocking statistic about pharm. deaths. ~S

     
  • At 10:17 AM, Blogger Flimsy Sanity said…

    Canada sells Plan B over the counter as do 34 other countries. Mary I agree on the doctor thing. No one who goes to them has just one prescription - they are all taking a handful of pills - and I know a couple people on kidney dialysis related directly to their drugs.

     
  • At 10:34 AM, Blogger Flimsy Sanity said…

    I think the real argument is -should we force people to bear children as punishment for the crime of sex for any other reason than procreation. Boy if we shot the people guilty of that sin, there would be nobody left to pound the pulpit. That might also be the true argument against homosexuality.

     
  • At 3:45 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Really, it all comes down to Choice. I mean if the folks in the pulpit want to harange about it, that's fine. Just make it up to the woman to ultimately make the choice - her body, her choice.

     

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