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Taxpayers Paying for Plan B on Military Bases »

February 2010

In two different public opinion polls last year, a majority of Americans said they were opposed to abortion, while even more Americans oppose taxpayer funding of abortion. Strange, then, that a supposedly “independent panel of experts” recommended that the Defense Department require American military bases around the world to stock supplies of the so-called “emergency contraception pill,” also commonly referred to as the “morning after pill.”

Let’s get one thing on the table right now – “emergency contraception” is a dishonest and purposely misleading phrase used to condition Americans to believe it is a benign method to prevent pregnancy.

According to the Pentagon, an independent panel of alleged doctors and medical experts has recommended that American taxpayers should pay for abortions for soldiers and Defense Department personnel all over the world. I use the term “alleged” in front of the phrase “doctors and medical experts” because one would think that “doctors and medical experts” would understand medical terms like “conception” and “contraception.”

In fact, this pill doesn’t merely prevent conception, it can and does prevent a fertilized egg – yes, a newly conceived child – from implanting itself in the uterine wall where it would normally gestate and develop for the next nine months until the mother gave birth. That’s not “contraception.” That’s abortion. And taxpayer funded abortion at that.

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