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Once Jones—in Counter’s words a “noted philanthropist and humanitarian”—was suggested as a potential recipient, the choice was easy. Jones quickly and enthusiastically accepted, Counter said...
...program began with a gospel performance by the Harvard Kuumba singers, and included remarks from Gomes, Counter, the Foundation’s undergraduate interns, and, in a surprise appearance, Mayor of Cambridge Michael Sullivan, who presented Jones with a key to the city...
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...
Never mind that 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...