A judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the controversial Plan B "morning-after" pill available to 17-year-olds without a prescription.
The morning-after pill is nothing more than a high-dose birth-control pill, notes Wendy Wright of Concerned Women for America. "The FDA has never allowed for a high dose of a drug be available without a prescription for any age if a low dose of the same drug requires medical oversight," she points out. Birth-control pills require a prescription -- but not a higher dose of it, now that U.S. District Judge Edward Korman has handed down his ruling. Wright says the legal basis of Korman's decision is outdated. "Even advocates for the morning-after pill have admitted that the drug is less effective than they used to think," she observes, "and yet this judge based his ruling on political talking points -- old talking points -- that have since been proven to not be true." Researchers do not even know what effect the high dose would have on women and girls for long-term use. "But by making it so easy to get, young women are encouraged to rely on it as a regular form of birth control," adds Wright. "This ruling puts politics above women's health, and intrudes into parents' ability to protect their minor daughters." Judge Korman also instructed the FDA to reconsider whether to make the drug available to girls of all ages without a prescription or parental consent.
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