Plan B
This article was in my daily news email. Now are they going to make birth control an OTC drug as well?
24.08.2006 Associated Press Newswires
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Drug agency allows some nonprescription sales of morning-after pill
WASHINGTON (AP) - Women may buy an emergency contraceptive without a prescription -- but only with proof they are 18 or older, U.S. govrernment health officials ruled Thursday, capping a contentious three-year effort to ease access to what is known as the morning-after pill.
Girls 17 and younger still will need a doctor's note to buy the pills, called Plan B, the Food and Drug Administration told manufacturer Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The compromise decision is a partial victory for women's advocacy and medical groups that say eliminating sales restrictions could cut in half the 3 million annual unplanned U.S. pregnancies. Opponents have argued that wider access could increase promiscuity.
The long delay had ensnared President George W. Bush's nominee to head the FDA. Thursday, two senators lifted their blockade on the nomination, making confirmation of Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach as FDA's commissioner likely next month.
"While we urge the FDA to revisit placing age restrictions on the sale of Plan B, it is real progress that millions of American women will now have increased access to emergency contraception," Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Patty Murray, who had help up the confirmation, said in a joint statement.
Tonight's our date night. That means that we're absolutely not allowed to do laundry, dishes.....wedding stuff even. Other than that, we can do anything we want, as long as we're doing it together--just us--like a date. Any ideas in Denver? or at home? With so many possibilities, it's like "Oh wow, what do we do with a free evening of leisure?"
24.08.2006 Associated Press Newswires
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Drug agency allows some nonprescription sales of morning-after pill
WASHINGTON (AP) - Women may buy an emergency contraceptive without a prescription -- but only with proof they are 18 or older, U.S. govrernment health officials ruled Thursday, capping a contentious three-year effort to ease access to what is known as the morning-after pill.
Girls 17 and younger still will need a doctor's note to buy the pills, called Plan B, the Food and Drug Administration told manufacturer Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The compromise decision is a partial victory for women's advocacy and medical groups that say eliminating sales restrictions could cut in half the 3 million annual unplanned U.S. pregnancies. Opponents have argued that wider access could increase promiscuity.
The long delay had ensnared President George W. Bush's nominee to head the FDA. Thursday, two senators lifted their blockade on the nomination, making confirmation of Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach as FDA's commissioner likely next month.
"While we urge the FDA to revisit placing age restrictions on the sale of Plan B, it is real progress that millions of American women will now have increased access to emergency contraception," Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Patty Murray, who had help up the confirmation, said in a joint statement.
Tonight's our date night. That means that we're absolutely not allowed to do laundry, dishes.....wedding stuff even. Other than that, we can do anything we want, as long as we're doing it together--just us--like a date. Any ideas in Denver? or at home? With so many possibilities, it's like "Oh wow, what do we do with a free evening of leisure?"