Or the fact that many on the right wing wrongly refer to the morning after pill as “RU-486″ in their efforts to mislead the public?

I think both would make great blog posts

“Mendell’s note referred to Gambit Weekly’s Nov. 4 endorsement of Bobby Jindal, which noted that Jindal supports making what this paper called “emergency room contraception” available to rape victims. These events illustrate the general confusion surrounding emergency contraception.”

http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2003-12-02/feat4.html

And this just goes to show that Jindal is willing to misuse terms in order to make his point. Instead of calling it the “Morning After Pill” (which many confuse with RU-486… a completely different pill), he incorrectly calls the MAP “emergency room contraception”.

I asked him a question on WTIX 690 when Jeff Crouere had him on as a guest. I asked him about what he felt about a woman with an ectopic pregnancy. The procedure that Jindal described in an endorsement of treatement for that condition was the most invasive of all the available procedures. The only reason he supported it is because that procedure did not “target the embryo, so it wouldnt be considered an abortion”. In reallity, an abortion is the termination of a pregnancy, regardless of the cause.

So he doesn’t use the correct definition of abortion and he doesn’t know the correct term for the morning after pill. Some healthcare expert, huh?

Unfortunately, some in the extreme religious right wing try to frame the “abortion debate” to include “discarding unused embryos” when performing IVF… completely ignoring the number of embryos that are naturally discarded via natural conception practices.

Jindal has gone on record in the past supporting the use of the “Morning After Pill” in cases of rape, something extreme groups like the “American Life League” opposes. Unfortunately, many rape victims do not seek medical help immediately after being attacked and the opportunity to use the MAP goes away. In these cases, Jindal is clear. These women will be forced to have their lives altered for 9 months just because some creep couldnt understand what “no” means. It’s just disgusting to force a rape victim to do that.

As I said, there are just some policy stances that should make people completely reject you as a candidate, and this issue is one of them. Anyone who holds the view of “no abortions, no exceptions” has no business serving the public.