RSSOfficial: FDA to Approve Plan B for 17-Year-Olds
Carolyn Hileman - The Voice | April 22, 2009
The Food and Drug Administration, reversing field, will now let 17-year-olds get the ‘morning-after’ birth control pill without a doctor’s prescription, a government health official said Wednesday.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the agency will announce that it is complying with a federal judge’s order that overturns a Bush administration policy. The official was not authorized to speak publicly before the FDA announcement, expected later Wednesday.
Last month, U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ruled in a New York lawsuit that Bush administration appointees let politics, not science, drive their decision to allow over-the-counter access to these pills only for women 18 and older. Korman ordered the agency to let 17-year-olds get the medication, and separately to evaluate whether all age restrictions should be lifted.
Plan B is emergency contraception that contains a high dose of birth control drugs and will not interfere with an established pregnancy. Religious conservatives say it’s the equivalent of an abortion pill because it can prevent a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus.
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This should have been done a long time ago. The reasons for the FDA holding this back were theological and political rather than scientific.
I’m curious, what exactly do conservatives want? Complete abstinence? That will never ever happen.
Conservatives don’t want to care for these teen mothers and children. They don’t want to educate teens or offer condoms. Do conservatives have any other ideas on how to deal with teen pregnancy other than abstinence?
As usual you have it purposefully backwards to justify your own beliefs. The “scientific” facts are that from the moment of conception that little lump of cells is human life. This is not even disputable. Human life is guaranteed to be protected and not taken in the United States except for punishment for a crime either committed or being committed (self-defense). Read your Constitution.
You obviously do not like that however and believe that life should be able to be taken on a whim. In which case you would have been right at home it Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Russia because in both instances those glorious nanny states decided that large groups of people were not entitled to their right to life based on the argument that they were not wanted or good for society.
Those are the facts. You will probably not accept delivery however.