FDA Ordered to Rethink Age Restriction for Plan B


A federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration yesterday to reconsider its 2006 decision to deny girls younger than 18 access to the morning-after pill Plan B without a prescription.

U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman in New York instructed the agency to make Plan B available to 17-year-olds within 30 days and to review whether to make the emergency contraceptive available to all ages without a doctor's order. Article.

Why is anyone taking this vile pill in the first place?! This should never have been approved by the FDA -- but it was a political decision that was made at the time-- and not one that even remotely considered the dangers of this drug to the woman or to our society. After all, what's another human life worth to the culture of death? To many politicians, politics is more important than a woman's health. Taking this pill has not reduced the number of pregnancies or abortions, but has only increased the numbers of women who are exposed to the risks of the drug. More and more women are using this drug as a form of birth control. Who knows what kind of effect this will have on them in the long run? No long-term studies have been done on this drug. But what we do know is this: They will be exposed more frequently to STD's, they will be more at risk for life blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks.

In 2005, Judie Brown, President of American Life League, testified that "these high doses of artificial hormones can and do terminate the lives of human beings after their lives have begun at conception/fertilization; these pills are dangerous for women, particularly adolescent women, and the damage to family life would be severe. Emergency contraception is not contraception...the Food and Drug Administration has a moral and ethical responsibility to assure, to the best of its ability, the health and welfare of every member of the human family."

If the FDA were really concerned about women's health and human life, they would take this dangerous drug off the market.

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  1. This, coupled with the story below is one reason I refuse to get a flu shot. I refuse any medication that isn't absolutely necessary because I don't trust the medical profession any more. I have taken my name off the organ donor list because if no one close to me is present, who is to say that I won't be used to "harvest" organs.

    P.S. You cannot take organs from a dead person, they must be alove!

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