One story out today was a woman quit a senior position at the FDA over their changes in plans to authorize the Plan B contraceptive. It's a pill with a super heavy dose of birth control that if it's taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex will greatly reduce the chances of pregnancy.

LAURAN NEERGAARD

Associated Press

WASHINGTON - The highly regarded women's health chief at the Food and Drug Administration resigned Wednesday in protest of her agency's refusal to allow over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception.

Assistant Commissioner Susan Wood charged that FDA's leader overruled his own scientists' determination that the morning-after pill could safely be sold without a prescription, and stunned his employees last week by instead postponing indefinitely a decision on whether to let that happen.

"There's fairly widespread concern about FDA's credibility" among agency veterans as a result, Wood told The Associated Press hours after submitting her resignation Wednesday.

Response

There are a couple of issues here. One is the age limit. The FDA thinks girls under 17 should have a prescription based on whether or not they administer it properly. The problem you run into is that in order for it to be effective, it has to be taken ASAP and sometimes prescriptions on the fly aren't feasible.

The other issue is the pro lifers consider this tantamount to abortion. Pro choicers see this as an answer to abortion. I agree with the latter. What do you think.

posted by Stithmeister @ 11:11 PM
 
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