Shock pundit Laura Ingraham is at it again. This morning on Fox News, Ingraham made the following comment about the Obama Administration’s decision to drop age restrictions on the sale of the morning after pill, “It’s a good deal for pedophiles, a good deal for people who commit statutory rape against young girls. If mothers and fathers across this country hear this, and they think, ‘Well, I guess my daughter or her boyfriend or her rapist can go out to a pharmacy and get a bunch of, you know, hormone pills to give a little girl’… We don’t really know the effect of a spiking or dropping a little girl’s… in many cases a young woman’s or a little girl’s hormonal levels. It’s outrageous!”
Of course, Ingraham is wrong, ” As Katie McDonough pointed out over at Salon in May:
This line of argument is not based in reality: forensic investigations do not require a pregnancy to confirm an assault and women’s bodies are not incubators for evidence in rape cases.”
Rapist will attack someone because they want to, not because there is a morning after pill that will hide the evidence. In addition, “Women’s health experts have long supported universal access to the morning-after pill. Nancy Northrup, CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights, said of the administration’s reversal that she was “pleased that women should soon be able to buy Plan B One-Step without the arbitrary restrictions that kept it locked behind the pharmacy counter when they needed it most urgently.”