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That sets the stage for the latest chapter in a battle that has raged for more than a decade. Critics claim--although studies are inconclusive--that using synthetic bovine growth hormone could lead to such health problems as premature puberty or even cancer. But the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) studied the issue before it approved RBST in 1993, when it reported that tests showed no significant difference between the milk from treated and untreated cows...
...making the morning-after pill over-the-counter, the FDA will improve widespread access and availability for all women and help to reduce unwanted pregnancy. In a society where the right to choose is increasingly scrutinized, an opportunity to prevent the problem before it starts cannot be passed...
...Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally decided to consider alleviating these obstacles by putting emergency contraception on pharmacy shelves without a prescription. Given that both the American Medical Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists have both supported this proposition as medically safe, it seems reasonable to assume that the change would be relatively uncontroversial. But then again, what would America be without its anti-choice, sexually conservative ideologues...
...current FDA policy is unnecessarily inconvenient and the United States is embarrassingly behind the rest of the world in offering this pregnancy prevention option. Emergency contraception was already available over the counter in 26 countries by 2000, ranging from Britain, Israel and Switzerland to Sri Lanka, Albania and Madagascar. If women around the world can handle the daunting task of taking a pill all by themselves, why can’t we? For a country that professes to be a leader in the global fight for women’s rights and access to birth control, we certainly drag...
Albano could even be prosecuted, although the defiant mayor says the FDA couldn't stand the political fallout. "It would be a serious mistake to prosecute an elected official," he says. "If they're going to prosecute me, they better prosecute all those senior citizens on the bus to Canada too." --By Nathan Thornburgh