FDA Ordered to Rethink Age Restriction for Plan B Judge Says Politics Influenced Policy on the

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Contraceptive

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/23/AR2009032301275.html

By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, March 24, 2009; Page A02

A federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration yesterday to reconsider its 2006 decision to deny girls younger than 18 access to the morning-after pill Plan B without a prescription.

U.S. District Judge Edward R. Korman in New York instructed the agency to make Plan B available to 17-year-olds within 30 days and to review whether to make the emergency contraceptive available to all ages without a doctor's order.