The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is about to decide on another petition to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, Plan B®. The deadline for the agency's decision was Thursday, January 20, but the FDA has delayed their decision.
If it were up to medical experts and scientists, the morning-after pill which significantly reduces a woman's chance of becoming pregnant after sex or sexual assault would have been available without a prescription last year. But science doesn't seem to matter when it comes to making policy on women's reproductive health in the Bush Administration. In May 2004, President Bush's FDA rejected the recommendations of its own experts and denied an application to make EC available to women over the counter.
Will the FDA do the right thing this time and help women prevent unintended pregnancy? Or will politics prevail AGAIN? Please sign this petition to send a message to the FDA encouraging the agency to approve EC for over-the-counter status.
We signed the “FDA Debating Morning-After Pill Again” petition!
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10:20 am PDT, Oct 18,Jeremy Litberg, Washington
its a great idea speially for rape victims. if you get raped and pregnant then you obviously didnt want it. or if the condom breaks. and its mutch better that wating for the fetus to form
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7:36 pm PDT, Oct 14,Chris Beane-martin, New Hampshire
Hey mken first off BUTT THE HECK OUT OF OUR BUSINESS!!!! I think it would be better for women to use that pill in the 1st 24 to 48 hours after sex than to slaughter a baby that is months along inside the uterus inside the mother and suck it out in pieces. And, I am so sick of you assholes in washington thinking you have the right to tell women what we can and can't do with our bodies.
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7:43 am PDT, Oct 13,Hallie Mc, Illinois
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9:14 am PDT, Oct 11,Jimelle Austin, Kansas
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7:36 pm PDT, Oct 5,Scott Korman, New York
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7:13 am PDT, Oct 4,Donna Hamsher, Louisiana
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8:03 pm PDT, Oct 2,Lorie Gols, Massachusetts
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3:50 am PDT, Sep 30,Name not displayed, Wisconsin
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3:00 am PDT, Sep 29,Name not displayed, New York
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6:21 pm PDT, Sep 28,Lynne Stanford, Texas
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7:23 pm PDT, Sep 27,Kay Mosko, California
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3:31 pm PDT, Sep 22,Name not displayed, Massachusetts
2:54 pm PDT, Aug 31,MaryAnn Barnes, Canada
Un wanted pregnancies are just that unwanted! Do the math.
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9:34 pm PDT, Aug 29,Heather Little, California
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8:36 pm PDT, Aug 26,Lorena Ramirez, Arizona
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8:27 pm PDT, Aug 26,Morgaine Dayton, California
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5:16 am PDT, Aug 26,Sherry Pilgrim, Alabama
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4:12 am PDT, Aug 25,Name not displayed, Massachusetts
With the stupidity of the debate, I often wonder if people realize the form of "birth control" identified as an IUD is actually a more debateable issue? IUD's prevent a FERTILIZED egg to implant itself while the pill has similar effects but is less aggressive as the IUD. I agree to the right to choose and I am completely supportive of forms of birth control. Abortion is an option, absolutely, just a lot more traumatic to women.
If the people fighting this debate brought this to people's attention, wouldn't there be another way to discriminate a woman's choice to decide what is best with them? I am sick of stupid people trying to push their views... go as aggressively after men who don't pay child support and that energy to children HERE!!!
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3:26 pm PDT, Aug 24,Samuel Ford, California
What sounds better, a woman using contraception, or a child being abused because the mother had not wanted children? Think about it: contraception curbs the number of unintended births and makes numerous women happier. Is keeping contraception away from women and allowing children to be born only to face abuse truly a good idea?
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12:55 am PDT, Aug 23,Jenni Casella, Florida
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12:27 pm PDT, Aug 22,Name not displayed, Tennessee
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8:46 pm PDT, Aug 20,Michele Harris, New York
Its a womans right to choose. Who makes up these kooky laws----------MEN!
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4:44 am PDT, Aug 19,Name not displayed, Illinois
They are safe. And it is an American right.
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2:12 am PDT, Aug 19,Abid A, India
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9:35 pm PDT, Aug 18,Larry Bibayoff, California
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12:45 pm PDT, Aug 18,Amy Mays, Indiana
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2:17 pm PDT, Aug 15,Arifi Waked, Arizona
It has been proven to be a safe and reliable way of terminating an unwanted pregnancy before the fetus has time to approach anything resembeling a child. Abortions will happen no matter how difficult you make access to them. But by denying women access to this pill, all you are doing is ensuring that later and later term abortions of more dangerous means will be resorted to.
