FDA Debating Morning-After Pill Again

[Doodlebug02]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has until January 20 to decide on another petition to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, Plan B®. If it were up to medical experts and scientists, the morning-after pill – which significantly reduces a woman’s chance of becoming pregnant after sex or sexual assault – would have been available without a prescription last year. But science doesn’t seem to matter when it comes to making policy on women’s reproductive health in the Bush Administration. In May 2004, President Bush’s FDA rejected the recommendations of its own experts and denied an application to make EC available to women over the counter.

Will the FDA do the right thing this time and help women prevent unintended pregnancy? Or will politics prevail AGAIN? Send a message to the FDA encouraging the agency to approve EC for over-the-counter status.

http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/fda_ec_otc_1_7_05/wnbg6eu4157n887

 

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http://prochoiceaction.org/campaign/fda_ec_otc_1_7_05/wnbg6eu4157n887

Done - and I signed up for more action alerts!! Thanks for the opportunity

Bob

 

[Doodlebug02]

Done - and I signed up for more action alerts!! Thanks for the opportunity

Bob

Anytime!