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Plan B approved for OTC sales (18 and up)
Aug. 24th, 2006 12:37 pmhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14497678/
FDA OKs nonprescription ‘morning-after’ pill
Decision allows over-the-counter sale of Plan B for those 18 or older
WASHINGTON - Women may buy the morning-after pill without a prescription — but only with proof they’re 18 or older, federal health officials decided Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration ruling culminated a contentious three-year effort to ease access to the emergency contraceptive.
Girls 17 and younger still will need a doctor’s note to buy the pills, called Plan B, the FDA told manufacturer Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The compromise decision is a partial victory for women’s advocacy and medical groups which say eliminating sales restrictions could cut in half the nation’s 3 million annual unplanned pregnancies. Opponents have argued that wider access could increase promiscuity.
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So, not everything that people wanted. Still, a vast improvement. Besides, there's plenty of ways to get around the age restriction, as I'm sure everyone with more than 2 brain cells is aware. Compromise is necessary in some cases, and it seems to me it's better to have it available than not.
However, at the end of the article, I was going WTF?
But opponent Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said Plan B’s wider availability could give women a false sense of security, since it isn’t as effective as regular birth control. Wright also worries that adult men who have sex with minor girls could force the pills upon them.
Okay, first off, hormonal birth control isn't for everyone. While I think it's a pretty nifty invention, and wouldn't want to live without it (and with the exception of the little vixen's gestation and the two months previous, haven't done so since I was sixteen years old), I know there are problems with it, and have experienced some of them for myself.
The part that really had me going "uh, uh, uh" however: Wright also worries that adult men who have sex with minor girls could force the pills upon them.
Not to be ugly, but having the EC pills forced upon you is not the big issue on this one. It's the adult men having sex with minor girls that seems to be the problem to me. Yes, there is some risk inherent in the EC pill, just as there is in normal birth control, but they sort of pale in comparison to the threat of pregnancy or STDs.
DV
FDA OKs nonprescription ‘morning-after’ pill
Decision allows over-the-counter sale of Plan B for those 18 or older
WASHINGTON - Women may buy the morning-after pill without a prescription — but only with proof they’re 18 or older, federal health officials decided Thursday. The Food and Drug Administration ruling culminated a contentious three-year effort to ease access to the emergency contraceptive.
Girls 17 and younger still will need a doctor’s note to buy the pills, called Plan B, the FDA told manufacturer Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The compromise decision is a partial victory for women’s advocacy and medical groups which say eliminating sales restrictions could cut in half the nation’s 3 million annual unplanned pregnancies. Opponents have argued that wider access could increase promiscuity.
( Read more... )
So, not everything that people wanted. Still, a vast improvement. Besides, there's plenty of ways to get around the age restriction, as I'm sure everyone with more than 2 brain cells is aware. Compromise is necessary in some cases, and it seems to me it's better to have it available than not.
However, at the end of the article, I was going WTF?
But opponent Wendy Wright, president of Concerned Women for America, said Plan B’s wider availability could give women a false sense of security, since it isn’t as effective as regular birth control. Wright also worries that adult men who have sex with minor girls could force the pills upon them.
Okay, first off, hormonal birth control isn't for everyone. While I think it's a pretty nifty invention, and wouldn't want to live without it (and with the exception of the little vixen's gestation and the two months previous, haven't done so since I was sixteen years old), I know there are problems with it, and have experienced some of them for myself.
The part that really had me going "uh, uh, uh" however: Wright also worries that adult men who have sex with minor girls could force the pills upon them.
Not to be ugly, but having the EC pills forced upon you is not the big issue on this one. It's the adult men having sex with minor girls that seems to be the problem to me. Yes, there is some risk inherent in the EC pill, just as there is in normal birth control, but they sort of pale in comparison to the threat of pregnancy or STDs.
DV
