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DURHAM D

(32,595 posts)
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 01:48 PM Apr 2013

Judge Strikes Down Age Limits on Morning-After Pill

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/06/health/judge-orders-fda-to-make-morning-after-pill-available-over-the-counter-for-all-ages.html

A federal judge ruled Friday that the government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger. In his ruling, he also accused the federal government of “bad faith” in dealing with the requests to make the pill universally available, and said its actions had been politically motivated.

The decision, on a fraught and politically controversial subject, comes after a decade-long fight over who should have access to the pill and under what circumstances. And it counteracts an unprecedented move by the Obama administration’s Health and Human Services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, who in 2011 overruled a recommendation by the Food and Drug Administration to make the pill available for all ages without a prescription.


In his ruling on Friday, Judge Korman also raised the issue of politics, saying that Ms. Sebelius’s decision was “politically motivated, scientifically unjustified, and contrary to agency precedent.”



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Judge Strikes Down Age Limits on Morning-After Pill (Original Post) DURHAM D Apr 2013 OP
Finally. nt redqueen Apr 2013 #1
As well they should ismnotwasm Apr 2013 #2
Great news. Thanks. n/t MadrasT Apr 2013 #3
A judge with some fortitude! boston bean Apr 2013 #4

boston bean

(36,186 posts)
4. A judge with some fortitude!
Fri Apr 5, 2013, 02:23 PM
Apr 2013

finally. our weak mealy mouthed politicians scoring political points using our bodies must come to an end.

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