News-Virginian:
We are troubled, however, that Allen is profiting off a drug that many of his evangelical supporters consider a form of abortion. Allen is staunchly pro-life yet owns stock in Barr Laboratories, makers of Plan B, or the morning-after contraceptive pill, according to his financial disclosure report.
Taken within 72 hours of intercourse, Plan B prevents pregnancy.
It seems hypocritical to oppose a woman's right to choose while investing in a drug that does just that.
Allen should dump his Barr stock.
And one has to wonder why George Allen hasn't demanded an apology from Sen. Conrad Burns (R) of Montana. Burns, as you may recall, trashed Virginia firefighters risking life and limb to put out wildfires in Big Sky country for $10-12 an hour.
It's even worse than that, with a Burns staffer directly insulting George Allen:
A member of the Daily Press Editorial Board contacted Burns' Washington office to check the story and to see if the senator had any more to say on the subject.
The young man (very young, we surmise) who answered the phone responded with language that would make a sailor, maybe even Burns himself, blush. Imagine a "South Park" tirade in full force, laced with assorted colorful obscenities, and you get the idea.
"And you can tell Sen. George Allen of Virginia to [vulgarity deleted]," said Burns' spokesman.
Hmmm, I wonder what he wanted to tell George Allen? To fuck off? To fuck himself? Whatever it might be, it wasn't very nice.
And yet Allen won't respond. He refuses to stand up for himself. He refuses to publicly stand with his state's firefighters, letting them get rudely insulted by his Senate colleague.
Of course, if the firefighters lived in Iowa, that would probably be a completely different matter.
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