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...morning-after pill has been around for years, but obstacles to access often hinder its widespread use. In most states, women seeking emergency contraception must first set up an appointment and make a trip to the doctor’s office to obtain the necessary prescription. But most doctors’ offices are not open on the weekends—a time when the most number of women are probably in need—and pharmacies are not always free from moral prejudice. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that currently only six percent of women of childbearing...
...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 members of Congress would rather see their daughters pregnant...
When it comes to pregnancy prevention, high school and college females have always been the victims of these kinds of morality policies. While the FDA approved the birth control pill in 1960, state laws and local policies made it nearly impossible for a single woman to obtain a prescription. And until the late 1960s, it was actually illegal for an unmarried woman under 21 to obtain the pill without consent from her parents. Sex—or more accurately—safe sex was considered inappropriate in the eyes of the government for single gals. Those who violated these social...
Almost 45 years later, we still can’t seem to shake our nation’s sexually conservative agenda. A pending bill in Missouri would allow pharmacists to refuse to fill prescriptions for the morning-after pill on moral grounds and similar legislation was introduced in Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, North Carolina and Washington this past year. Meanwhile, the Colorado state legislature recently decided that medical care providers should not be required to inform rape victims that emergency contraception is available to them. And in Virginia, the state legislature is considering a bill that would prohibit the health clinics...
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...