Judie Brown, president of American Life League and a longtime friend of the Phillips family, announced on Wednesday that:

“Warning signs should be posted in every airport.... But unbelievably, the news that women on the birth control pill are at increased risk for potentially deadly blood clots on long airline flights is being ignored. The Federal Aviation Administration should be ordered to disclose this important information to all female passengers. It could save lives.” The story reported in Newsmax.com and on the Associated Press, reveals that these findings are contained in a new study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

“Once again, medical science is echoing a genuine concern of the pro-life movement: that use of birth control pills is dangerous to the health, safety and lives of women,” said Brown, “and the risk will be even greater if high-dosage birth control pills are sold over the counter as is currently proposed.”

Newsmax.com writes:

This information about air travel comes to light as the Women’s Capital Corporation, a group closely associated with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, is seeking Food and Drug Administration approval to make one morning-after pill formulation — known as Plan B — available as an over-the- counter medicine. While Plan B, a regimen of four birth control pills per dose, does not present the specific problem noted in the air travel study, there are many other health concerns associated with this formulation. “If taking a daily dose of one birth control pill presents a significantly increased health risk to women taking long airline flights, then taking mega doses of chemicals like Plan B provide even great health concerns,” said Brown. “There’s a bundle of money to be made by ignoring scientific studies and health concerns. Planned Parenthood and other like-minded groups repeatedly prove that their true concern is not preservation of women’s health but generation of huge organizational profits. And, if they get their way, and the FDA does approve over the counter status for Plan B, others are certain to follow. Sales of birth control pills, including the morning-after abortion pill, are becoming a significant profit center for Planned Parenthood. Each year, the organization makes more money from pill sales. These sales helped Planned Parenthood net a $36 million profit in the 2002-2003 fiscal year, according to the organization’s own annual report. “As long as these pills help bring in the money, the high priestesses of contraception and abortion will never admit there’s even a hint of risk,” said Brown. “The birth control pill is simply bad medicine, regardless of how you look at it. And now we learn that from 35,000 feet, the view is even worse.