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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.

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We've all waited long enough.

Thank you.

We signed the “FDA Schedules Vote on Plan B - Make This Time the Last!” petition!

# 19,250:

7:21 pm PDT, Aug 31, Sherri Call, Florida

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6:50 pm PDT, Aug 31, Sharon McKnight, Pennsylvania

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6:38 pm PDT, Aug 31, Name not displayed, West Virginia

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6:09 pm PDT, Aug 31, Corinne Broskette, Florida

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6:06 pm PDT, Aug 31, Delaney Keyes, Michigan

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6:04 pm PDT, Aug 31, Heidi Shuler, Florida

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5:57 pm PDT, Aug 31, Jennie Marks, Hawaii

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5:55 pm PDT, Aug 31, Barbara Babor, Connecticut

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5:46 pm PDT, Aug 31, Michael Thurman, Texas

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5:36 pm PDT, Aug 31, Kathy And Judy Sutter, Florida

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4:50 pm PDT, Aug 31, Elena Loftus, Massachusetts

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4:45 pm PDT, Aug 31, Cynthia Ann Lopriore, Massachusetts
I feel that Plan B is a good thing, I only think that it may discourage the use of condoms that may increase the incidence of the many diseases that are prevalent in all societies, including (of course) AIDS.

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4:44 pm PDT, Aug 31, Carla Ohm, New Jersey

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4:39 pm PDT, Aug 31, Barbara Peinert, Iowa

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4:33 pm PDT, Aug 31, Cayce Frierson, South Carolina

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4:21 pm PDT, Aug 31, Kim Greyson, Illinois

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4:11 pm PDT, Aug 31, Melissa Seaback, Alaska

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4:05 pm PDT, Aug 31, Bellia Wheeless, Idaho

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3:46 pm PDT, Aug 31, Gayle Negro, Oregon

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3:19 pm PDT, Aug 31, Roberta Greenspan, North Carolina

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3:18 pm PDT, Aug 31, Jamil Shahidullah, New York

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2:42 pm PDT, Aug 31, Fernando Del bosque, Florida

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2:11 pm PDT, Aug 31, Robin Tuttle, Pennsylvania

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2:03 pm PDT, Aug 31, Name not displayed, Texas

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1:55 pm PDT, Aug 31, Dawn Johnson, West Virginia

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1:45 pm PDT, Aug 31, Jane Baldwin, Ohio

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1:18 pm PDT, Aug 31, Carol Loar, California

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1:16 pm PDT, Aug 31, Dynelle Smallwood, Alabama

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1:07 pm PDT, Aug 31, Name not displayed, Kentucky

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1:04 pm PDT, Aug 31, Mary Baker, California

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1:00 pm PDT, Aug 31, Catherine Harrington, California

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12:48 pm PDT, Aug 31, MARY HARRISON, Texas

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12:24 pm PDT, Aug 31, Crystal Rivers, New York

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12:18 pm PDT, Aug 31, Darlene Miller, Minnesota

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12:06 pm PDT, Aug 31, Name not displayed, California
Time and again, plan B has proven to be a safe option for an unwanted pregnancy. Plan B is not meant to be, nor will it be used as a primary birth control option. Even with diligent birth control use, accidents happen. Also rapes and incest are part of many women's lives. A woman should not be forced to continue with an unwanted pregnancy when there is a safe, non-invasive method to terminate. We have been through many rounds of this discussion, now it's the time to let us have access to Plan B.

# 19,215:

12:00 pm PDT, Aug 31, Deneen Griffin, Ohio

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11:08 am PDT, Aug 31, Tricia Delia, Virginia

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11:02 am PDT, Aug 31, Marcy Vaj, California
We as women need an alternate to abortion if the medical knowledge can provide it, and at this time in history, it does. Don't continue to ignore our desires and provide for a plan B.

# 19,212:

10:28 am PDT, Aug 31, Suzanne Smith, Maryland
Let's stop pushing womens' health issues to the back burner and take appropriate action NOW!

# 19,211:

9:56 am PDT, Aug 31, Beth Black, Texas

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9:50 am PDT, Aug 31, Nancy Blaine, Kansas

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9:33 am PDT, Aug 31, Joshua Bishop, Missouri

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9:04 am PDT, Aug 31, Seymour Katzman, New York

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8:26 am PDT, Aug 31, Donald Sigler, Oregon

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8:22 am PDT, Aug 31, Melissa anne Christians, North Carolina
i would like to see paln b approve ASAP.

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7:53 am PDT, Aug 31, Name not displayed, Illinois

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7:17 am PDT, Aug 31, Jeannette Lenard, California

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7:17 am PDT, Aug 31, Anthony Dyer, Tennessee

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7:03 am PDT, Aug 31, Manuel Romero, Michigan

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6:48 am PDT, Aug 31, Jordan Flack, Illinois
just like a condom or other ways its the same thing

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