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NYT: Obama Health Secretary Stops Plan For Over-the-Counter Emergency Contraception
I'm sure Erica will have a "the-C-is-for-Conniption-Fit" when she gets back from her 11:30 interview and reads the breaking news from the AP, but I wanted to link it now.
Yesterday afternoon, Erica was hopeful that the FDA would put Plan B on the shelves. I guess she forgot about the Obama Administration's iffy record on women's health care and didn't count on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stepping in.
In a surprise move, the nation's health secretary stopped the Plan B morning-after pill from moving onto drugstore shelves next to the condoms, deciding Wednesday that young girls shouldn't be able to buy it on their own.
The Food and Drug Administration was preparing to lift a controversial age limit and make Plan B One-Step the nation's first over-the-counter emergency contraceptive, available for purchase by people of any age without a prescription.
But Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius intervened at the eleventh hour and overruled her own experts.
Plan B instead will remain behind the pharmacy counter, as it is sold today — available without a prescription only for those 17 and older who show an ID proving their age.
Yesterday afternoon, Erica was hopeful that the FDA would put Plan B on the shelves. I guess she forgot about the Obama Administration's iffy record on women's health care and didn't count on Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius stepping in.