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Judge strikes age restrictions for "morning after" pill

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The Food and Drug Administration must make emergency contraceptives available to girls of all ages within 30 days, a federal judge has ruled, saying the agency's decisions regarding the so-called morning-after pill were "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable."

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman came as the result of a lawsuit brought by reproductive-rights advocates, who had sought to remove age and other restrictions on the so-called "morning after" pill.

The Center for Reproductive Rights and other groups have argued that contraceptives are being held to a different and non-scientific standard than other drugs, and that politics has played a role in decision-making. Social conservatives have said the pill is tantamount to abortion.

The morning-after pill currently is available without a prescription only to those 17 and older who can prove their age. Younger teenagers must get a prescription.

In 2011 the Food and Drug Administration had been prepared to lift a controversial age limit and make Plan B One-Step -- the nation's first over-the-counter emergency contraceptive -- available for purchase by people of any age without a prescription.

But in December of that year Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius blocked the move, deciding that young girls shouldn't be able to buy it on their own. Sebelius said that while young girls are physically capable of bearing children, they might not properly understand how to use the emergency contraception without guidance from an adult.

President Barack Obama said at the time he supported Sebelius' decision.

In his ruling Judge Korman said Secretary Sebelius' directive to the FDA to reject Plan B One-Step for OTC sales "forced the agency to ride roughshod over the policies and practices that it has consistently applied in considering applications for switches in drug status to over-the-counter availability."


Full Story: Judge strikes age restrictions for "morning after" pill - CBS News

Should minors be able to purchase Plan B?
 
Should minors be able to purchase Plan B?

NO!!

This sucks!

I can't buy some kinds of cough syrup w/o ID,

But girls can buy this stuff ??

Whats wrong with these people ???:rantoff:
 
Another step forward in the liberal pedophile agenda.
 
unless there is some health issue with a minor taking it the FDA has no business getting in the way. Why they were asking for public opinion on the matter is beyond me since their only concern should be the scientific safety of the drug. If the bible thumpers do not want to buy it they are free to walk on by it. The bible should have nothing to do with the FDA's decision. I actually do support selling it over the counter to kids who may need it. It is cheap, it doesn't involve surgery, and the girl can fix her mistake without making a huge issue about it. We need to get the government out of the practice of enforcing some insane twisted abstinence moral values that don't work on kids who are going to have sex whether the christians like it or not. A baby is not a punishment for a promiscuous teen. Christians need to stop pretending a living human being is god's punishment on girls for having sex.
 
NO!!

This sucks!

I can't buy some kinds of cough syrup w/o ID,

But girls can buy this stuff ??

Whats wrong with these people ???:rantoff:

recreational cough syrup use is a little different than birth control. I am pretty sure you don't pop a whole lot of BC pills and get high.
 
NO!!

This sucks!

I can't buy some kinds of cough syrup w/o ID,

But girls can buy this stuff ??

Whats wrong with these people ???:rantoff:

Yeah, the rules on cold medicine suck.
 
Another step forward in the liberal pedophile agenda.

One more step and you can get to bestiality too. It still will be an insane logic leap, but I am sure you can bring in some other obscure unrelated items.
 
I have a bad feeling about this one.

My concern is someone else putting it in a woman's food to cause losing a ZEF she wants or to prevent pregnancy to begin with - her not even knowing. People not only can go crazy to try to prevent an abortion, other people also can go crazy trying to terminate someone else's pregnancy.

I'd prefer it be 1.) be behind the counter and 2.) limited to sales to females and 3.) a record kept of anyone who buys it.

There also needs to be INTENSELY harsh laws passed about giving this to someone without the person's knowledge. Some men and some parents totally freak out learning their girlfriend, mistress or daughter is pregnant. I see potential problems. A women likely wouldn't even known why she lost the ZEF thinking it just a miscarriage. In regards to ZEFs, its like selling cyanide pills OTC. Just slip one to any woman and end a pregnancy she wants, but you don't, in the learn stage. Or even routinely without her knowledge to avoid it happening in the first place. There also is the question of what happens if someone takes a lot of them or slips someone a lot of them at the same time.

For those reasons I'm not fond of that ruling. Those all are not only very legitimate health concerns, but also assault concerns.
 
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unless there is some health issue with a minor taking it the FDA has no business getting in the way. Why they were asking for public opinion on the matter is beyond me since their only concern should be the scientific safety of the drug. If the bible thumpers do not want to buy it they are free to walk on by it. The bible should have nothing to do with the FDA's decision. I actually do support selling it over the counter to kids who may need it. It is cheap, it doesn't involve surgery, and the girl can fix her mistake without making a huge issue about it. We need to get the government out of the practice of enforcing some insane twisted abstinence moral values that don't work on kids who are going to have sex whether the christians like it or not. A baby is not a punishment for a promiscuous teen. Christians need to stop pretending a living human being is god's punishment on girls for having sex.

No one mentioned the bible or religion, where are you getting that from?
 
The fewer unwanted children and teenage mothers the better.
 
unless there is some health issue with a minor taking it the FDA has no business getting in the way. Why they were asking for public opinion on the matter is beyond me since their only concern should be the scientific safety of the drug. If the bible thumpers do not want to buy it they are free to walk on by it. The bible should have nothing to do with the FDA's decision. I actually do support selling it over the counter to kids who may need it. It is cheap, it doesn't involve surgery, and the girl can fix her mistake without making a huge issue about it. We need to get the government out of the practice of enforcing some insane twisted abstinence moral values that don't work on kids who are going to have sex whether the christians like it or not. A baby is not a punishment for a promiscuous teen. Christians need to stop pretending a living human being is god's punishment on girls for having sex.

I would feel better if the Judge set the minimum age at the legal age when a child becomes an adult. If a parent is still responsible for the minor, then the parent should be the one to okay the drug or not for their child.
 
No one mentioned the bible or religion, where are you getting that from?

The reason why people want the morning after pill banned is because of religious objections to birth control. That would also be the only reason to get public opinion if you were something like a federal science organization capable of testing medical issues with a drug for yourself. The FDA does testing and evaluation and that should be based on science and not religious opinion. If the drug poses minimal to no health risk to the minors then they have no business opposing it's sale to minors.
 
One more step and you can get to bestiality too. It still will be an insane logic leap, but I am sure you can bring in some other obscure unrelated items.

Hardly. You know laws that don't require parental consent in the name of protecting victims of underage rape and incest actual enable the victimizers to continue to rape or molest by preventing adults like the police from becoming involved. This is no different. You are insulating rapists and molesters from being caught with your "to protect the victim" nonsense.
 
I would feel better if the Judge set the minimum age at the legal age when a child becomes an adult. If a parent is still responsible for the minor, then the parent should be the one to okay the drug or not for their child.

You see, that is an issue the FDA should not be deciding. If the legislature wants to deal with that sort of thing then that is their thing. The FDA should be scientific in their evaluations of the effects of the drug. There should be no parental, religious, or personal objections for the FDA. The judge was right in smacking the FDA for their BS.
 
In addition, the MAP is huge levels of hormones NOT meant for routine birth control. I can see 14, 15 year olds taking one every time she has sex and doing so thereafter. What would be the effects of someone taking 5, 10, 15 every month, month after month?
 
Hardly. You know laws that don't require parental consent in the name of protecting victims of underage rape and incest actual enable the victimizers to continue to rape or molest by preventing adults like the police from becoming involved. This is no different. You are insulating rapists and molesters from being caught with your "to protect the victim" nonsense.

There is nothing in here that limits a child's ability to report rape or molestation. There is nothing in here that keeps a parent from doing so either. That was a sad argument that has no basis in the fact the FDA is concerned with the scientific evaluation of the health issues regarding the drug. If you want to oppose the drug because it supposedly makes children get molested then bring that up in the legislature and see if they buy the BS, but the FDA has no business back dooring in regulations that have nothing to do with their purpose. Oh, and we all know the argument against this pill has everything to do with hate of BC, and nothing to do with stopping molestation and child rape.
 
In addition, the MAP is huge levels of hormones NOT meant for routine birth control. I can see 14, 15 year olds taking one every time she has sex and doing so thereafter. What would be the effects of someone taking 5, 10, 15 every month, month after month?

hmmm, if only we had a scientific organization who could have brought up studies showing the dangers of such use if they existed. Because that would be a reason to require a prescription, not public opinion. So why do you think the FDA did not bring up the concerns that you just presented? Are we to believe the FDA is not familiar with people who use more than the recommended dosage? Or perhaps there was no evidence that there are huge health risks. Because that would have been something I would imagine would have been important evidence as to why the plan B pill should be prescribed and not offered OTC if it existed. maybe the FDA just left those studies in their office during the trial.
 
hmmm, if only we had a scientific organization who could have brought up studies showing the dangers of such use if they existed. Because that would be a reason to require a prescription, not public opinion. So why do you think the FDA did not bring up the concerns that you just presented? Are we to believe the FDA is not familiar with people who use more than the recommended dosage? Or perhaps there was no evidence that there are huge health risks. Because that would have been something I would imagine would have been important evidence as to why the plan B pill should be prescribed and not offered OTC if it existed. maybe the FDA just left those studies in their office during the trial.

No, no, no. You can't condemn the FDA as incompetent and then do the exact opposite and claim their opinion makes your point because they are experts - all in the same thread.
 
Morning after pills are emergency contraceptive pills that have to be taken within 72 hours of unprotected sexual intercourse.These pills work by either inhibiting ovulation or inhibiting fertilization of the egg or preventing the attachment of the fertilized egg to the wall of the uterus.
These pills are about 40 times as strong as regular contraceptive pills and thus, are more likely to cause severe side effects.
Contraceptive pills can cause serious side effects such as blood clots in heart, intestines and lungs.
They are not advisable for women who have diabetes, liver problems, heart disease, and deep vein thrombosis and breast cancer.
The risk further increases with women having smoking habit or history of migraine and cardiovascular diseases.
Other possible side effects include nausea and vomiting, headaches, fluid retention, dizziness, diarrhea, abdominal pain, breast tenderness, irregular bleeding and chest pain.
The common side effects of morning after pills are the same as those of ectopic pregnancy. In such a pregnancy, the embryo gets stuck in the fallopian tubes rather than the womb. Women, who are not under medical supervision, may confuse the abdominal pain and nausea of ectopic pregnancy with the side effects. Moreover, studies have shown that the use of some emergency contraceptive pills increases the risk of ectopic pregnancy.
Use of oral morning after pills is associated with significant weight gain, gall bladder disease, respiratory disorders, high blood pressure, liver tumor, cyst enlargement, visual disturbances, increased risk of ectopic pregnancy and death.
Other than these, adverse or allergic reactions of the body to the pill include skin irritation, an outbreak of rash, and difficulty in breathing and swallowing.
The potential for regular use emergency contraceptive pills also raises concerns about the safety. Emergency contraceptive pills are claimed to be safe as per studies based on their occasional use. The large amounts of hormone per dose aggravate the risk significantly.
Women older than 35 years of age, who either smoke or have a history of heart disease, are not advised to take emergency contraceptive pills.
Over the counter availability of the morning after pills raises serious questions about its misuse by youth:

  1. The rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) among youth may increase.

  1. An increase in the rate of sexual violence may be seen.

  1. It will expose young girls to serious health risks.
 
unless there is some health issue with a minor taking it the FDA has no business getting in the way. Why they were asking for public opinion on the matter is beyond me since their only concern should be the scientific safety of the drug. If the bible thumpers do not want to buy it they are free to walk on by it. The bible should have nothing to do with the FDA's decision. I actually do support selling it over the counter to kids who may need it. It is cheap, it doesn't involve surgery, and the girl can fix her mistake without making a huge issue about it. We need to get the government out of the practice of enforcing some insane twisted abstinence moral values that don't work on kids who are going to have sex whether the christians like it or not. A baby is not a punishment for a promiscuous teen. Christians need to stop pretending a living human being is god's punishment on girls for having sex.

this this this and this

its weird that this type of common sense logic isnt so "common"
 
People are just lining up on the typical pro-choice v. pro-life teams. How unfortunately predictable.
 
People are just lining up on the typical pro-choice v. pro-life teams. How unfortunately predictable.

well those people would be stupid if thats what they base this on since its not an abortion topic.

i base mine on simply consistency, the drug should be treated like other drugs of it dangers/side effects etc.

if they deem it to need a prescription on that, thats fine by me but no other reasoning should be used.
 
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