In Reversal, Obama to End Effort to Restrict Morning-After Pill

[JI7]

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Source: new york times

The Obama administration has decided to stop trying to block over-the-counter availability of the most popular morning-after contraceptive pill for all women and girls, a move fraught with political repercussions for President Obama.

The reversal by the government means that any woman or girl will soon be able to walk into a drugstore and buy the pill, Plan B One-Step, without a prescription.

Mr. Obama had expressed personal concern about making the drug more broadly available last year and offered support to Kathleen Sebelius, his secretary of health and human services, when she blocked a decision by the F.D.A. that would have cleared the way for nonprescription distribution to all girls and women regardless of age. He said that as the father of two young girls, the idea of making the drug available to them without a prescription made him uncomfortable.

But a federal judge angrily accused the administration of blocking the drug because of politics, not science, and ordered Ms. Sebelius to reverse her decision. Last week the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City partially refused the Justice Department’s request for a delay in the judge’s order while the government appealed.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/11/us/in-reversal-obama-to-end-effort-to-restrict-morning-after-pill.html?google_editors_picks=true

[Scairp]

1. So when will it be on the shelf next to the condoms?

I've yet to see a date when this will go into effect and stores begin to carry the product. Does anyone know? And what about certain asshole stores and/or pharmacists who refuse to put it on shelves next the condoms, which anyone of any age can buy? Apparently the irony is lost on these fools. And if it's on the shelf and a teen girl picks it up and goes to pay for it, will someone give her a bunch of shit over it? I expect this will happen over and over again. I think to save themselves grief, the girls who have someone over 18 who will go and buy it for them and keep it confidential should do so, at least until the newness of it wears off, and it will. Eventually it will be no big deal but for the first year I think the girls (and women), who do go to buy it could face a rash of verbal abuse from people who have no business opening their big fat mouths about it. I would encourage these girls to not go alone, take a friend, or for those who have good parents, take their mothers along. That will shut the fascists up. They need someone there who has their back and won't allow them to be abused without giving it back to the stupid, ignorant fucktards who can't mind their own business.

[mountain grammy]

2. Right on! Good to see some passion for women's rights.

[ElizabethWarren2016]

3. Nice

Judge Korman: W
Obama: L

(Note: I was going to use a favorite nickname for Obama but I didn't want to get banned so soon...)

[Tx4obama]

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