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Several months ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) considered a proposal to make emergency contraception over the counter and place this birth control right on pharmacy shelves. Yet despite its potential to reduce teen pregnancy, politics trumped rationality and an organization that was created to keep partisanship out of important medical decisions caved in under political pressure. In a letter to the FDA, 44 members of Congress wrote, "We urge you to reject the petition currently before you to make the morning-after pill as accessible to our nation's teenage daughters as aspirin or hair spray." Apparently, these...
Never mind that both the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists both promoted over-the-counter emergency contraception as medically safe. Forget the fact that an FDA advisory panel voted 24-3 to recommend that emergency contraception be available without a prescription. Ignore the estimate that over-the-counter availability is predicted to result in 1.7 million fewer unwanted pregnancies and 800,000 fewer abortions each year in the United States. While the FDA technically functions as a medical regulator—not a morality stipulator—it decided to delay a decision...
What makes over-the-counter access to the morning-after pill all the more important now is that it would render many of these restrictive measures moot and keep these morality demagogues out of a woman’s personal family planning decisions. Yet the FDA seems more concerned with how this policy will affect teen sex rates rather than how it could reduce teen pregnancy rates. A recent editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine condemns the FDA for allowing “political considerations” to delay their decision on this issue...
...halls. “Honestly, I do look at nutrition facts when I go through dining halls,” says Trujillo. “Other than working out, I watch what I eat,” he adds. “I’m a borderline calorie-counter.” However, others brag about not having to stick to a rigid diet to maintain their bodies. “I don’t watch what I eat,” boasts Goonan. “I eat what I want.” Either...
...cheese category. It’s easy to see why: with tall fridges of softer goat’s milk cheeses against the walls, semi-cooled nests of sheep’s milk cheeses along the aisles and the harder cow’s milk cheeses displayed on the counter, the Whole Foods Market is a veritable cheese museum. A nutty Manchego with quince preserves (or even a dining hall pear) is sublime, and a good aged cheddar served with a few Spanish olives never fails. And if you’re in the area, don’t forget...