Sufficient Scruples

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June 13, 2005

The Clock is Still Ticking on Emergency Contraception

by @ 11:59 am. Filed under General, Autonomy, Provider Roles, Women's Issues, Access to Healthcare, Reproductive Ethics, Sex, Biotechnology, Healthcare Politics

The Center for Reproductive Rights has a set of statements and briefing papers on the FDA’s religiously-dictated refusal to certify “Plan B” emergency contraception for over-the-counter sale. They also show running clocks counting up the time since the original petition for OTC status was filed, and the number of unplanned pregnances in the US that are estimated to have resulted since (1,580 days as of today, and 13 million unplanned pregnancies, respectively).

Women’s lives, health, and liberty hang in the balance as this shame continues.

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