Rules for Morning-After Pill May Come Soon

[tocqueville]

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer
2 hours, 4 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - By month's end, federal health officials will decide whether to let women buy emergency contraception without a prescription — and if so, if the morning-after pill will be treated more like aspirin off the shelf or like cigarettes.

Regardless of how the Food and Drug Administration ends the two-year saga, it isn't likely to settle the issue. States already are moving to expand access to Plan B, the pill that can prevent pregnancy if taken soon after unprotected sex, amid some competing efforts to restrict it.

And if the FDA does allow easier access, the pills probably would come with an age limit — anyone younger than 16 would still need a prescription. So drugstores would have to "card" young customers seeking to prevent pregnancy much as they now check cigarette buyers' ages.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050808/ap_on_he_me/morning

[TrogL]

1. That's backwards as usual

I thought we were trying to prevent "teenage pregnancy" not prevent preventing it.

I'm getting confused here. :crazy:

[cornermouse]

2. Prediction.

Bush will take it off the market. Its going to get banned.

[HockeyMom]

3. If they can ban this,

then they can ban birth control pills. Morning After is just a higher dosage of it. Actually, since I took the Pill over 20 years ago, this is probably not much higher a dosage than what I took every day.