Feds to comply with N.Y. morning-after pill ruling (order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency
Source: NBC
Feds to comply with N.Y. morning-after pill ruling
By Tom Hays, The Associated Press
The federal government on Monday told a judge it will reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions.
The Department of Justice, in the latest development in a complex back-and-forth over access to the morning-after pill, notified U.S. District Judge Edward Korman it will submit a plan for compliance. If he approves it, the department will drop its appeal of his April ruling.
Last week, the appeals court dealt the government a setback by saying it would immediately permit unrestricted sales of the two-pill version of the emergency contraception until the appeal was decided. That order was met with praise from advocates for girls' and women's rights and with scorn from social conservatives and other opponents, who argue the drug's availability takes away the rights of parents of girls who could get it without their permission.
The government had appealed the judge's underlying April 5 ruling, which ordered emergency contraceptives based on the hormone levonorgestrel be made available without a prescription, over the counter and without point-of-sale or age restrictions.
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Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)JoeyT
(6,785 posts)a given with anything that gives women any control whatsoever over their bodies.
K&R
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)whenever someone tries to pass anti-discrimination laws.
Miserable hypocrites.
And ups to the president for actually acting like a Dem for once.
RussBLib
(8,985 posts)And just to be clear, in the real world, we're talking about a major shift in public policy that's likely to reduce unwanted pregnancies. Plan B will now be available, without a prescription, without age limits, and without ID, to anyone who wants to buy it. It will simply be on drugstore shelves, just like other common consumer products.
Read more: http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/06/11/18901036-obama-admin-relents-clears-morning-after-pill