Congratulations to the fodder and ...

Congratulations to the fodder and Drug Administration for finally recognizing women are adults who can make their have reproductive choices! It only took three years for the FDA to approve Plan B an extremity contraception, as an over-the-counter medicine even though there was no scientific reason for the delay.

The medicine proved safe time and time again, level by the FDA's own scientific panel, became a political impetuous potato denounced by "right to life" disposes as an abortion pill. In fact, the pharmacology of Plan B point out tos it is anything but an abortifacient, and the fact that FDA honcho delayed their decision because of crushing from these groups was mind-numbing.

The put drugs into approval process should not be mired in politics; it should be a safety and health issue.

Plan B also known as the morning-after pill, works if used within 72 hours of unprotect sex; it does not affect existing pregnancies and has no known risks. The pill will be available OTC to women 18 and older; the FDA was make anxioused that younger women get medical advice and a prescription, and this is a compromise most numerous women's health advocates can live with. steady President Bush sided with the decision about making the pill easily available to those 18 and older equal though he was denounced by dint of abortion opponents.

Thank goodnes sanity has finally prevailed.

Copyright CHICAGO SUN-TIMES 2006

Provided from ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved