Suit seeks to make ‘morning-after pill’ available to girls

[Playinghardball]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Reproductive rights advocates on Wednesday asked a federal judge in Brooklyn to make the “morning-after pill” immediately available to girls of all ages without a prescription.

The move by a coalition headed by the Center for Reproductive Rights attempts to override a decision by U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius that maintains the requirement of a prescription for girls age 16 and younger.

The group asked to add Sebelius as a defendant to an existing federal lawsuit that has been dormant for six years and was reawakened by Sebelius’s unprecedented move two months ago to restrict the availability of Plan B emergency contraceptives for minors.

Sebelius is also at the center of another birth control controversy in which the same advocates applaud her decision to require health insurance plans to offer birth control free of charge, even for Roman Catholic universities and charities.

More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/09/suit-morning-after-pill-available-to-girls/

[TexasProgresive]

1. It will be too late for this H.S. teacher

AUSTIN (February 8, 2012)--Austin high school teacher Tracy Lee Steinberg, 32, has been charged with delivering a dangerous drug after authorities say she gave a morning-after birth-control pill to a teenage student.

Court records show that Steinberg, a physical education teacher at Johnson High School, gave the pill to a 16-year-old student last month after seeing the girl crying in class.

The arrest warrant affidavit says the girl expressed a fear of pregnancy after having unprotected sex.

After experiencing unpleasant side effects, the girl told her mother, who reported the incident to school district police.

Steinberg was placed on administrative leave, and then resigned.

Steinberg was free Wednesday on $15,000 bond.

If convicted, she could be sentenced to up to two years in a state jail.

http://www.kwtx.com/statenews/headlines/Central_Texas_Teacher_Accused_Of_Giving_Student_Morning-After_Pill_138971329.html

[RC]

2. Why does anyone still live in Texas?

[TexasProgresive]

3. Family, job, house, land

Why does anyone live anywhere. If I could live where I wanted it would be in West County Cork Ireland, Ardfield to be exact. But, hey, that's not happening. Besides that there are assholes everywhere.