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...politics keeping the long-delayed emergency contraceptive known as the morning- after pill, or Plan B, off the over-the-counter market? Advocates of making the drug more easily available were infuriated when U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Lester Crawford announced on Aug. 26 that he was delaying a decision on the pill yet again to allow time for additional study and public comment. Assistant commissioner Susan Wood, who heads the FDA'S Office of Women's Health, last week resigned in protest, saying she could "no longer serve as staff when scientific and clinical evidence, fully evaluated...
...Crawford's move was unusual in contradicting the advice of scientists at his own agency. In a 12-page internal memo obtained by TIME, Dr. Steven Galson, acting director of the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, urged that Barr Laboratories, which makes the drug, be allowed to sell the pill over the counter, albeit with age restrictions. In the memo, written on Aug. 26, Galson argued that Plan B had been proved "safe and effective without the supervision of a practitioner licensed by law for women ages 17 and older." Subordinates had argued for an even less...
Opponents of the pill, who say they consider its effects indistinguishable from abortion, make no apologies about treating it as a political issue. Two days before Crawford's announcement, a group headed by conservative activist Paul Weyrich forwarded an e-mail to like-minded advocates, asking them to "call the White House comment line as soon as possible to say 'No Plan B!'" Why were the calls directed to the White House and not the FDA? "I'm told they take notes on the calls," says Paul Caprio, author of the e-mail, "and that information gets to the President...
...tiny town of Crawford is Fort Qualls named in honor of Cpl. Louis Wayne Qualls killed in Fallujah last fall. Among the patriotic displays are the three crosses bearing his son's name that Gary Qualls has retrieved from the antiwar protest site. "There is a big difference between our wants and our needs," Qualls said. "We know what Cindy wants, but we know what our needs...
...Santiago family, who drove in from North Texas, were among the thousands of both antiwar and pro-Bush forces who descended on tiny Crawford Saturday. Carmella Bradwell left Dallas and met her daughter Katelyn, who lives in Austin, at Camp Casey II. "I have been getting more and more upset about the war," Bradwell said, "and as a mom I wanted to be here to support the moms and Cindy...