Morning After Pill Access
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Drug Agency Lowers Age for Next-Day Birth ControlThe Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that it would make the most widely known morning-after pill available without a prescription to girls and women ages 15 and older, and also make the pill available on drugstore shelves, instead of keeping it locked up behind pharmacy counters.
From the Right
Backers will seek contempt ruling if Obama balks at morning-after pill rulingA legal fund suing the Obama administration over access to a “morning-after birth control pill says it will not sit idly if the government does not comply with a court order to make the drug available to all ages.
From the Left
FDA approves morning-after pill without prescription for girls 15 and olderThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it approved the availability of the Plan B One-Step emergency contraception pill without a prescription for women 15 and older.
This move comes just weeks after a federal judge in Brooklyn, New York, ordered the FDA to make the morning-after birth control pill available to women of any age, without a prescription. Tuesday's FDA announcement, which pertains to an application from Teva Women's Health, Inc., is not related to that, the FDA said.
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