A federal district court overturned Friday the Obama administration’s ban against women under 17 purchasing over-the-counter emergency contraception without a prescription.
Describing the restriction as “a strong showing of bad faith and improper political influence” Judge Edward Korman of the District Court of Eastern New York directed the Food and Drug Administration to lift it within 30 days.“The decisions of the Secretary with respect to Plan B One-Step…were arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable,” Judge Korman wrote, directing the FDA to “Make levonorgestrel-based emergency contraceptives available without a prescription and without point-of-sale or age restrictions within thirty days.”
i have a daughter now 40 and two grandaughters under 18, that said i think now not then mindset was hell no you can't, but i evolved and although kids don't always make the right decision at what poit do you start trusting them?
i also realize this could be seen by the kids as a green light of sorts that part i fear would be grossly abused.
Health and Human Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected in 2011 a request to allow teenage girls and women to buy Plan B over-the-counter in drugstores and pharmacies. In doing so, she overruled the FDA, which was set to rule that the morning-after pill be made available to all women, with no prescription necessary.Women’s health groups quickly derided the decision as political, and blocking access to a safe medication. The Center for Reproductive Rights filed this lawsuit within days of Sebelius’s announcement.
understand children but women?
The FDA first approved Plan B as a prescription emergency contraceptive in 1999. In 2003, its manufacturer asked the FDA to make the drug available over the counter. The FDA rejected that request, citing a lack of data on how the drug effected young teenagers.In 2005, two FDA officials resigned when the FDA announced plans to indefinitely postpone any further review of bringing Plan B out from behind the counter. Within a year though, the agency decided it would allow women over 18 to purchase the drug without a prescription, although they would still need to request it from the pharmacist.
so if they were concerned about affects why not speed up the research instead of locking women into potentially unwanted pregnancies.
