Morning-After Pill Study Contradicts Claim by Foes -WP

[Rose Siding]

Providing women with easy access to the emergency contraceptive Plan B did not lead them to engage in more risky sexual behavior, a study of more than 2,000 California women has concluded.

The study did find that women given a supply to keep at home were more than 1 1/2 times as likely to use the drug after unprotected sex as those who had to pick it up at a clinic or pharmacy. The findings led the study authors to conclude that easy access to Plan B, also called the morning-after pill, could reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies while posing no apparent risk to women.

The study contradicts a key claim made by opponents of easier access to Plan B at a time when the Food and Drug Administration is preparing to decide on a second application to allow nonprescription sales of the drug.

In an indication of the strong feelings on both sides, advocates of Plan B are planning a sit-in at FDA headquarters in Bethesda on Friday. Some protesters have called for civil disobedience if the FDA official who rejected the first Plan B application, Steven Galson of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, refuses to meet with them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48377-2005Jan4.html

[tk2kewl]

1. imagine that...

science trumps religion again

[FreepFryer]

2. This kind of thing is exactly why we have to fight. Want our daughters on

back-room abortion tables, 'cause there was no morning-after pill when she was date-raped?

Stand up for Women.

Stand up for Your Children.

Impeach Bush.

[NickB79]

3. So by the logic of Plan B opponents

I shouldn't keep a fire extinguisher in my house, because that will make me less responsible when playing with fire?

[NYC]

4. That's the logic.

Sadly.

[KDLarsen]

5. It sort of makes sense..

.. as much as I'm sure some women would love to be confident with their doctor, I think it's pretty humiliating to have to go one in order to get a prescription for a morning-after pill. I think much more women would use it if it was readily available without prescription.

But then again, it might just be me.