Pfizer Wants to Kill Your Grandfather

Kerry Howley | January 11, 2007

Pfizer is talking about an over-the-counter version of Viagra. Since Viagra's death rate is significantly higher than that of the abortion pill and that of hormonal contraception--neither of which is available over the counter--I fully expect the Concerned Women for America to launch a campaign highlighting the health risks of enhanced geriatric potency. There will be Jim DeMint speeches, a movement to suspend the drug's sale altogether, congressional hearings, perhaps a purge at the FDA. Jennifer Roback Morse insists that giving the underclass easy access to the morning-after pill will increase sexual activity and STD rates to the detriment of us all; surely she'll be first in line to oppose the wider distribution of a drug that actually will increase sexual acitivity. Strangely, no one seems to have noticed Pfizer's announcement, but given the Right's concern for pharmaceutical risk assessment and recent support for a vigilant, restrictive FDA, I can only assume that a save-our-grandpas campaign is just around the corner.