Via trifecta at New Pairodimes:
A bunch of fundamentalists are gathering together to fight Plan B being available for women. On the radio tonight, I heard one excuse. Pharmacists in Washington State are being religiously surpressed by being forced to dispense this medication.
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A coalition of American pro-life groups and doctors' associations has filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the approval of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for over-the-counter sales of the "Plan B" morning-after pill.
The lawsuit-- brought by the Family Research Council, American Association of Physicians and Surgeons, Concerned Women for America, and Safe Drugs for Women-- charges that the FDA improperly authorized sale of Plan B because of intense political pressure.
Specifically, the suit says that the manufacturers of Plan B failed to demonstrate that the drug is safe for all women, and that the directions provided on the label are adequately understood by the women who will take the drug.
In approving the sale of Plan B, the FDA too an inexplicable step, observed Wendy Wright, the president of Concerned Women for America; the federal overseer made "a high dose of a drug available without a prescription when a low dose of the same drug requires a prescription." Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, charged that the FDS "sacrificed women's health and committed unprecedented violations of the law" in approving the drug for over-the-counter use.
