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Thursday, April 23, 2009

Morning After Pill Approved for 17-year-olds

www.OneNewsNow.com

The Food and Drug Administration, reversing field, will allow 17-year-olds to 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 comply with a federal judge's order overturning a Bush administration policy that restricted access. 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 the 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.

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1 comment:

  1. This is awful. More superficial solutions designed only to cover up symptoms instead of fixing the heart of the problem.

    Teach abstinence, not contraception!

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