Word: triphasil
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Dates: during 1997-1997
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...promote their pills as safe for use after sex. The companies are still reluctant: The FDA, in a highly unusual action, approved a new use for the drug even though the manufacturers hadn't asked the agency to. Approved brands include Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories' Ovral, Lo/Ovral, Nordette and Triphasil, and Berlex Laboratories Levlen and Tri-Levlen. Wyeth said that despite the announcement, it would not market pills as a "morning-after" product in the U.S. Although emergency contraception is not an abortive drug, many anti-abortion groups still oppose it. Serrin Foster, president of Feminists for Life of America, says...
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