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And now morning-after pills are prescription only in the U.S.A. - New York Times article
Thankfully, if the F.D.A. does a study that shows that adolescent girls can understand the packaging label, it will be a non-prescription drug again, but it irritates me all the same - it smacks of a political agenda. (25 sixteen-year-olds were in the initial label study, though the article doesn't say how well they fared on comprehension.)
Advocates say that making the pill more broadly available will prevent unwanted pregnancies while opponents say it will encourage promiscuity and risky sex.
Promiscuity? Maybe, but it isn't their choice to regulate the personal freedoms of people in the bedroom (outside of rape, which is someone removing another's freedom of sexual choice anyway). As for risky sex, the best way to deal with that is teaching people that you can still get STDs if you're on birth control.
God forbid that we give people and edjumacation.
"The F.D.A. is right to be cautious about having a potent drug that can be harmful to women sitting next to candy bars and toothpaste," Ms. Wright said. Broad availability of Plan B would allow people to slip the medicine to women without their knowledge, Ms. Wright said.
One: I somehow doubt it's next to candy bars and toothpaste. The drugs section is usually well seperated from those. Second: it's not a freaking date rape drug, and any woman who swallows pills that she can't identify is already headed down a pretty stupid path. (I have no idea if it's dissolvable.)
But just you wait. This drug will get approved, and a few months, maybe a year later, controversy will erupt because some woman took pills that her husband/boyfriend/fuck toy gave her without finding out what they were, and is suing him because she didn't get pregnant.
On that day, my faith in humanity will reach absolute zero.
Thankfully, if the F.D.A. does a study that shows that adolescent girls can understand the packaging label, it will be a non-prescription drug again, but it irritates me all the same - it smacks of a political agenda. (25 sixteen-year-olds were in the initial label study, though the article doesn't say how well they fared on comprehension.)
Advocates say that making the pill more broadly available will prevent unwanted pregnancies while opponents say it will encourage promiscuity and risky sex.
Promiscuity? Maybe, but it isn't their choice to regulate the personal freedoms of people in the bedroom (outside of rape, which is someone removing another's freedom of sexual choice anyway). As for risky sex, the best way to deal with that is teaching people that you can still get STDs if you're on birth control.
God forbid that we give people and edjumacation.
"The F.D.A. is right to be cautious about having a potent drug that can be harmful to women sitting next to candy bars and toothpaste," Ms. Wright said. Broad availability of Plan B would allow people to slip the medicine to women without their knowledge, Ms. Wright said.
One: I somehow doubt it's next to candy bars and toothpaste. The drugs section is usually well seperated from those. Second: it's not a freaking date rape drug, and any woman who swallows pills that she can't identify is already headed down a pretty stupid path. (I have no idea if it's dissolvable.)
But just you wait. This drug will get approved, and a few months, maybe a year later, controversy will erupt because some woman took pills that her husband/boyfriend/fuck toy gave her without finding out what they were, and is suing him because she didn't get pregnant.
On that day, my faith in humanity will reach absolute zero.
