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Official: FDA to Approve Plan B for 17-Year-Olds
Fox News / AP ^ | 4-22-09 | AP

Posted on 04/22/2009 1:57:35 PM PDT by AngryCapitalist

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....

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ageofconsentlaws; babykiller; culturewar; doover; fda; minors; planb; statutoryrape; teensex

1 posted on 04/22/2009 1:57:35 PM PDT by AngryCapitalist
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To: AngryCapitalist

Obama’s Fault, Baby Killer in Chief.


2 posted on 04/22/2009 2:01:18 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: AngryCapitalist

When the 17 year old start turning up dead as well as the babies; what are they going to do?


3 posted on 04/22/2009 2:02:11 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: AngryCapitalist

17 today, 14 tomorrow? Why the line once we’ve excused some of those below adulthood?

And what if they attempt to take “extra just to be sure” after the fact, since they do not have doctor’s supervision when they use this?


4 posted on 04/22/2009 2:10:48 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
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To: freekitty

Planned Parenthood can botch abortions and run unlicensed abortuaries too.

“Safe - Legal - Rare” is a lie. “Dough - Rey - Me!”


5 posted on 04/22/2009 2:11:55 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
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To: DannyTN

and to think they called LBJ a baby killer.


6 posted on 04/22/2009 2:12:24 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (IRONY - we know more about the First Dog's historical papers than we do of President Barack.)
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To: AngryCapitalist

Want to bet that the 17 year old will be allowed to get the pill without parents’ consent? One of the goals of the left is to promote promiscuity among teenagers, so that they will be promiscuous when they grow up, and thus be good little liberals.


7 posted on 04/22/2009 2:17:17 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (liberalism is truly demented)
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To: a fool in paradise

Of course it is. I don’t think these agencies check any of this out especially in their needless hurry to bring anything unsafe to the marketplace.


8 posted on 04/22/2009 2:48:26 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: freekitty

FDA — Where Your Money Determines Both The Speed And Accuracy Of Our Tests!


9 posted on 04/22/2009 2:58:08 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Good one


10 posted on 04/22/2009 3:21:49 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote.)
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To: AngryCapitalist

Schwing! Now I can date 17 year olds!! WOO HOO!!!


11 posted on 04/23/2009 3:58:12 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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