5.07.2004

FDA: No OTC Morning After Pill

In another measure designed to make the president's ultra-nut wingbase happy, CNN via AP reports this:

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- The government rejected over-the-counter sales of morning-after birth control Thursday, citing concern about young teenagers' use of the pills. But regulators left open the possibility they will reconsider.

    Proponents immediately accused the Food and Drug Administration of bowing to conservative political pressure -- noting that the agency had overruled its own scientific advisers, who had overwhelmingly called easier access to emergency contraception a safe way to prevent thousands of abortions.

Let's be sure that we can't even stop a pregnancy while it's still just a microscopic speck. After all, fat, old, women-chasing, white men are always the best judge of what a woman should do with her uterus.