Plan B pill was stalled by politics

[brooklynite]

WASHINGTON - A scathing government report due out late this month backs Sen. Hillary Clinton's charge that White House appointees played politics with the morning-after pill, sources said yesterday.
The Food and Drug Administration shot down an application in May 2004 to sell the emergency contraceptive over the counter after a panel of its scientists overwhelmingly found the drug safe in 2003.

The pill's manufacturer submitted more information, but the FDA delayed making a final decision on the matter. Administration officials then promised Clinton and Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) that the FDA would act by September, which it did not do.

Now, sources say a report being drafted by the Government Accountability Office finds top managers of the FDA stuck their fingers in the decision-making process - and may have preordained the initial denial.

...snip...

A congressional source told the Daily News meddling may have come from FDA boss Lester Crawford. "The contents of this report point to the fact that this was the case, and as high as the commissioner," the source said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/355575p-303028c.html

[shoelace414]

1. Hillary was preventing the FDA boss from being confirmed

until she got assurances that Plan B would be approved, so they told her it would be, she allowed the confirmation, and guess what. they lied to her.

[MsAnthropy]

2. Playing games with women's health

It just makes me nuts! The Bushies were so ticked off because the head of the women's health section quit in protest, they tried to appoint a male veterinarian to the position until they got blasted for it. What a bunch of clowns. Everything is a fucking joke to them.

[imouttahere]

3. All part of BushCo's sick, twisted...

worldview. You want Viagra, no problem. You want female contraception, get lost slut.

[MaineDem]

4. The Senators were lied to and pregnancies weren't prevented

I have faith the "pit bull in size 6 shoes" the Administration has to worry about will be one of our women Democratic Senators. I believe they are pissed!