Going against the strong urgings and advice of the senior FDA officials, the Plan B emergency contraceptive still isn't available for over-the-counter sales.
Part of the hold-up, how to restrict sales to females 17 and over.
Again, the Bush Administration puts its dirty hands into something that could help society out greatly and once again, religious zeal and politics trump science.
WASHINGTON - The
Food and Drug Administration had intended to allow over-the-counter sales of Plan B last year but delayed the move while determining how to limit those sales to women 17 and older, a process that should have wrapped up by now, the agency's former chief testified.
But Crawford said his Aug. 26, 2005, announcement that the agency was delaying its decision on Plan B wasn't a move toward denying over-the-counter sales. Instead, it was a bid for time to work out how to enforce restricting nonprescription sales to women 17 and older. Girls 16 and younger would still need a prescription.
"There was no talk of denial, there was talk of trying to get straight what the enforcement procedures would be," Crawford testified, according to a transcript of the May 24 deposition that was released late Monday by the Center for Reproductive Rights which has sued to force the FDA to allow over-the-counter sales of Plan B for all ages.
So basically, the fundys rather someone have a child out of wedlock that they can't support rather than allow them to easily take this pill and avoid a very hard life for a obvious unwanted child.
How nice of them..
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