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FDA Schedules Vote on Plan B - Make This Time the Last!

Target: Andrew von Eschenbach, FDA Commissioner
Sponsored by: NARAL Pro-Choice America
The morning-after pill: Women have been waiting a long time to access it without a prescription. Now, the FDA has re-started its decision-making process around the fate of the morning-after pill, also known as Plan B.

Despite FDA experts' own findings that Plan B is a safe and effective contraceptive method for women AND their recommendation that it be approved for over-the-counter use, anti-choice politicians have successfully pressured the FDA to refuse to improve access to it for more than 3 years.

Don't let lack of public pressure be the reason the FDA sits on its laurels again.

Sign the petition to make this THE LAST round of decision-making on the morning-after pill!

Call on the FDA to support its own internal recommendations and stand with the hundreds of thousands of women who favor over-the-counter access to Plan B now!
deadline: 8-1-2007
goal: 40,000
 

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On Thursday August 24th, after a contentious three-year battle, the FDA voted to make Plan B available to women without a prescription.

This victory has been attributed in no small part to the action of women's rights groups and their supporters. Thanks from everyone at Care2 and NARAL Pro-Choice America for giving women the power to choose!

Keep up the good work!


Dear Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach,

I'm writing in regards to the recent announcement that the FDA will re-start its decision-making process over approving the morning-after pill, or Plan B, for over-the-counter use.

Women have been waiting for over three years for the FDA to make this decision. And as you're well aware, your agency's own senior scientists and experts have found that emergency contraception is a safe and effective method for preventing unintended pregnancy and have recommended its approval for over-the-counter use.

We urge you to listen to the findings of your colleagues and to respect the wishes of hundreds of thousands of women around the country by improving their access to the morning-after pill.

[YOUR COMMENT]

We've all waited long enough.

Thank you.
We signed the “FDA Schedules Vote on Plan B - Make This Time the Last!” petition!
# 100:
6:33 am PDT, Aug 2, LINDSEY KISER, Massachusetts
# 99:
6:33 am PDT, Aug 2, David Schultz, New York
# 98:
6:32 am PDT, Aug 2, Sally Keeney, North Carolina
It's our right to choose!
# 97:
6:32 am PDT, Aug 2, Mary Rausch, Washington
This has been stalled long enough please push to get it through.
# 96:
6:31 am PDT, Aug 2, Connie Ferguson, Michigan
# 95:
6:31 am PDT, Aug 2, Stephen Neal, California
Stop baseing decisions on religious beliefs and abide by the constitution. Let people make their own decisions.
# 94:
6:31 am PDT, Aug 2, Amanda Moyer, Pennsylvania
# 93:
6:31 am PDT, Aug 2, Lynn Coffey-edelman, New York
# 92:
6:30 am PDT, Aug 2, Anne Priest, New York
# 91:
6:30 am PDT, Aug 2, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
# 90:
6:28 am PDT, Aug 2, Karyn Giss, California
# 89:
6:27 am PDT, Aug 2, Mark Lewis, Colorado
It's time for the politics and religion to stop and the science and medicine to start!
# 88:
6:26 am PDT, Aug 2, Emily Formica, Maryland
# 87:
6:25 am PDT, Aug 2, Richard Wilkinson, Texas
# 86:
6:25 am PDT, Aug 2, Judi Poulson, Minnesota
This is very important for family planning.
# 85:
6:25 am PDT, Aug 2, Carole-jo Chi, Michigan
Your wife, your daughter, your sister, your mother, your granddaughter, your grandmother, your friend, your girlfriend could accidentally get pregnant, perhaps from rape. Don't you want her to have this option?
# 84:
6:24 am PDT, Aug 2, E. Klein, New Hampshire
Plan B is an essential part of family planning and allows people who are otherwise responsible to deal with unexpected mishaps. It is imperative that we can have this available as part of women's health!
# 83:
6:23 am PDT, Aug 2, Irwin Hoenig, Maryland
# 82:
6:23 am PDT, Aug 2, Nancy Ohm, Pennsylvania
# 81:
6:23 am PDT, Aug 2, Leah Humes, Washington D.C.
Women deserve access to this product.
# 80:
6:23 am PDT, Aug 2, Rana Nickels, Ohio
# 79:
6:23 am PDT, Aug 2, Brian Ainsley, Arizona
# 78:
6:23 am PDT, Aug 2, James M. Thomas, North Carolina
# 77:
6:22 am PDT, Aug 2, John Kevin Laffey, California
# 76:
6:22 am PDT, Aug 2, Judith Chase, California
# 75:
6:22 am PDT, Aug 2, Corina Brandeen, Wisconsin
# 74:
6:22 am PDT, Aug 2, David Roth, Virginia
# 73:
6:21 am PDT, Aug 2, Judi Lewis, Nebraska
# 72:
6:21 am PDT, Aug 2, Jason Wrobel, Michigan
It's time to allow women the right to choose Plan B.
# 71:
6:21 am PDT, Aug 2, Bill Jastromb, Massachusetts
# 70:
6:19 am PDT, Aug 2, Nancy Phipps, Kansas
# 69:
6:19 am PDT, Aug 2, Carol Elliott, North Carolina
# 68:
6:19 am PDT, Aug 2, Name not displayed, Kentucky
# 67:
6:18 am PDT, Aug 2, Robert Hupf, Florida
# 66:
6:17 am PDT, Aug 2, Cheri Livingston, California
# 65:
6:17 am PDT, Aug 2, Jeff Wiles, Minnesota
The time for politicking is OVER. Do NOW what should have been done years ago! No more lame excuses FDA.
# 64:
6:17 am PDT, Aug 2, Tina Thuermer, Virginia
Thank you for helping us keep science and religion out of each others' business!
# 63:
6:17 am PDT, Aug 2, Fred Lavy, Virginia
to save lives and prevent abortions
# 62:
6:16 am PDT, Aug 2, Christiaan Siano, Texas
# 61:
6:16 am PDT, Aug 2, Eric Plourde, Utah
# 60:
6:16 am PDT, Aug 2, Ashwinee Sadanand, Connecticut
# 59:
6:16 am PDT, Aug 2, Cindy Waltershausen, Wisconsin
Women deserve to have the best possible health care.
# 58:
6:15 am PDT, Aug 2, Anca Vlasopolos, Michigan
# 57:
6:15 am PDT, Aug 2, Jeri Pollock-Leite, California
# 56:
6:15 am PDT, Aug 2, Amy Tajdari, Maine
# 55:
6:14 am PDT, Aug 2, Josh Silverstein, California
# 54:
6:13 am PDT, Aug 2, Marcella Guerriero, South Carolina
The more birth control options available to women the better.
# 53:
6:13 am PDT, Aug 2, Barre Simmons, Virginia
# 52:
6:13 am PDT, Aug 2, AnnMarie Wilson, Texas
# 51:
6:13 am PDT, Aug 2, Adrienne Dollyhigh, North Carolina