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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reversed a policy
decision of the Bush Administration.
Seventeen-year=olds will soon be able to buy a "morning after" pill to
be used as an emergency contraceptive. Fox News reported the story this way on
April 22:
WASHINGTON -- Seventeen-year-olds
will soon be able to buy the "morning after" emergency contraceptive
without a doctor's prescription, after the Food and Drug Administration bowed
to a federal judge's order Wednesday.
Reversing a contentious policy of
the Bush administration, the FDA said in a brief statement it will not appeal a
judge's order that overturns restrictions limiting over-the-counter sales of
"Plan B" to women 18 and older.
U.S. District Judge Edward Korman
ruled last month in a lawsuit filed in New York that Bush administration
appointees let politics, not science, drive their decision to restrict
over-the-counter access.
Korman ordered the FDA to let
17-year-olds get the birth control pills. He also directed the agency to
evaluate whether all age restrictions should be lifted.
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