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FDA Says Morning-After Pill Must Be Available To Anyone Over 15
The Guardian ^ | April 30, 2013 | Staff

Posted on 04/30/2013 4:48:47 PM PDT by lbryce

The morning-after pill is to be made available over the counter to anyone in the US aged 15 and over, authorities announced on Tuesday.

Days before a court-imposed deadline, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lowered the age limit for Plan B and said it that a prescription would no longer be required to buy it. Instead, the pill can sit on drugstore shelves just like condoms, but buyers will have to prove their age at the cash register.

Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled that Plan B should be sold without restriction and gave the FDA 30 days to act. The FDA said its latest decision was independent of the court case.

Scientists, government health agencies and groups including the American Medical Association, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the American Academy of Pediatrics have recommended unrestricted access to emergency contraceptives for years. The FDA said in a December 2011 memo that "there is adequate and reasonable, well-supported, and science-based evidence that Plan B One-Step is safe and effective and should be approved for nonprescription use for all females of child-bearing potential".

That recommendation, delivered as the campaign for the 2012 presidential election was getting under way, was overruled by the US secretary of health and human services, Kathleen Sebelius.

In a judgment last month, US federal district court judge Edward Korman described the restriction as "a strong showing of bad faith and improper political influence". He said the decision was "arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable", and ruled Plan B should be made available without age restrictions.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

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To: lbryce

As if it isn’t already hard enough to keep a fifteen year old girl child on the straight and narrow path her parents have raised her on.

As soon as this stuff goes on sale, all the teenage girls will be sharing them like candy. Grrrr....


21 posted on 04/30/2013 5:34:46 PM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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Pedal to the metal, off the cliff into the abyss. And then the teenage girls who wait too long for the this abortifacient pill - they'll have to have another cheap and easy way to kill the offspring, so the next step would be free abortions with transportation to and from school, or maybe at the school,

Nothing lasts forever, I wonder what's next up.

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22 posted on 04/30/2013 5:34:49 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: lbryce
you’re responsible for them until they are 18 but apparently the state owns them at 15. Amerika
23 posted on 04/30/2013 5:35:11 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: lbryce
15 years old...

In some states the age of consent is 16 years or even 18 years.... Are the pharmacies going to rat out the recipients of these socially approved pills ?????

Will the sperm-donor get a knock on the door ...and off to the local jail for him? (You know it does take a "him" to be a genuine "sperm donor"?)

24 posted on 04/30/2013 5:38:15 PM PDT by ptsal (E)
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To: lbryce

40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.

http://www.napervilleteapatriots.com/images/Communist%20Goals%20Naked%20Communist%201958.htm


25 posted on 04/30/2013 5:39:16 PM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: lbryce
"A strong showing of bad faith and improper political influence" is the way all liberals view conservative positions.

It was the Obama administration that refused to allow over-the counter sales to minors. It was a Ronald Reagan-appointed federal judge (Korman) who overturned the decision.

26 posted on 04/30/2013 5:39:34 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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To: Jim Robinson
...should be defunded, disbanded, dissolved and permanently shuttered.

That goes for Constitutional federal agencies that comprise the liberal agenda, as well.

27 posted on 04/30/2013 5:44:40 PM PDT by lbryce (BHO:"Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds by way Oppenheiner at Trinity NM)
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To: randita

Then they will go after the pharmacies and try to pull their licesnes.


28 posted on 04/30/2013 5:46:00 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: SkyDancer

I don’t believe you. In what state can a 14 year old girl legally marry a 15 year old boy? And if such a thing happened, obviously the whole gang of them is so whacked out such violence would happen even if she had been allowed to kill the baby in the womb. And another reason your lame argument is fake is because abortion is legal. So if this 14 year old girl went crazy because she had a baby she didn’t want, she could have legally aborted it, or legally had it adopted.

Why are you promoting abortion on FR? The morning after pill is an abortifacient.


29 posted on 04/30/2013 5:49:10 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: Windflier

I can see some sharp marketer packaging a pill in
every pack of condoms...


30 posted on 04/30/2013 5:52:12 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: lbryce

The schools can’t give our children an aspirin, but the FDA can hand out pills and promote abortions? What happens when a minor “dies” from their morning after pill? Who do the parents sue? The Regime?


31 posted on 04/30/2013 5:54:53 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: little jeremiah

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/18/cassidy-goodson-14-year-old-mom-kill-newborn_n_2154995.html


32 posted on 04/30/2013 5:55:05 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: lbryce

Anyone want to speculate how long it will take until some kid dies taking this?

I give it 6 months tops.


33 posted on 04/30/2013 5:56:10 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: little jeremiah

I am not promoting abortion. You obviously do not know how to comprehend the written word. Good luck on your education.


34 posted on 04/30/2013 5:56:10 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: lbryce

Prescription or no prescription, how safe is the morning after pill? When news of this pill first came out I recall reading something about China wanting to supply the pill to Americans. WTF??? How really stupid would it be....for us to accept morning after pills manufactured in China...considering their past track record re: dangerous and destructive products exported here? Not to mention their known human rights violations track record.

If China is indeed allowed to ‘provide’ the morning after pill to Americans with the full sanction by Obama and the Democrat leftists in power, what are they aiming for here? Mass sterilization? I can’t think of a better way for one of America’s enemies to ‘bring us down’ than that. Of course....we probably wouldn’t know the pills caused sterilization until it was way too late.

Call me paranoid, but this issue has been a concern of mine for some time now. And that concern and worry is not going away.


35 posted on 04/30/2013 5:58:53 PM PDT by XenaLee (The only good commie is a dead commie.)
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To: lbryce

“anyone in the US aged 15 and over”

OK, say I’m a male, over 60.

Can I go buy some? Why? Why not?

Does anyone care?

What difference does it make?


36 posted on 04/30/2013 6:00:35 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob ( Concerning bo -- that refers to the president. If I capitalize it, I mean the dog.)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Progressives won’t care.
That’s just more guaranteed income for the tort lawyers.

I see television adverts soliciting lawsuit plaintiffs for birth control all the time.

From these guys
http://www.yazlegalclaims.com/index.html


37 posted on 04/30/2013 6:00:53 PM PDT by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: ExTexasRedhead
The schools can’t give our children an aspirin, but the FDA can hand out pills and promote abortions? What happens when a minor “dies” from their morning after pill? Who do the parents sue? The Regime?

Oh it gets much worse. In some states a girl 16 is medically an adult. Meaning the county health department {funded by state} can do STD, pregnancy testing, even dispense this pill {which has significant risk} without your knowledge or permission. As a matter of fact under some state laws parents can not obtain this information from doctors or health department. This has been going on for some time.

38 posted on 04/30/2013 6:16:25 PM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: boop

I think that the ridiculous assumption here is that 15-year old girls are rational adults, and will follow directions, etc. These are potentially dangerous and powerful drugs. If they did something else - actually, ANYTHING else...I guarantee that they would require a prescription. Basically, “plan B” is an slight overdose of certain hormones, and women have been doing plan B for years by taking several higher-dose types of birth control pills the morning after.

http://ec.princeton.edu/questions/dose.html

The kids (yes, kids) who are supposed to be reading directions are the same ones that believe that you can’t get pregnant the first time and that a rubber band works.

Heh, heh - “rational adults”...I suppose that doesn’t include the 42% that don’t know that Obamacare is a law...


39 posted on 04/30/2013 6:18:09 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is v?ery late in the day.")
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To: Scrambler Bob

Well, I wouldn’t take them because you will might get manboobs.


40 posted on 04/30/2013 6:19:17 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is v?ery late in the day.")
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