Planned Parenthood writes that the morning-after pill, also known as emergency contraception, is birth control you can use to prevent pregnancy up to five days, or 120 hours, after unprotected sex. On April 5, 2013, the age restriction was...
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The emergency contraceptive Plan B will be available without a prescription to girls of all ages within the next 30 days, as ordered in an April 5 ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman. Currently, a prescription is required...
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On Friday, April 5, a federal judge in New York ruled that the age limits currently in place on the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraceptives are "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable."U.S. District Judge Edward Korman...
Read more According to MedPage, Judge Edward Korman of the US District Court's Eastern District of N.Y. cited political pressure as the reason for the decision in 2011 by the Department of Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius...
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Today the medication Plan B, most commonly known as the morning-after pill, was made available for women of all ages without a prescription. Federal judge Edward R. Korman ruled that Plan B should be accessible to any woman...
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Obama's ban on Plan-B, the popular emergency contraception, for women under 17 without a prescription, was overturned by a federal district judge Friday. Citing "improper political influence," a judge ordered the FDA to make the...
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Friday morning (April 5, 2013), a federal judge struck down restrictions imposed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on the age of women seeking access to emergency contraception. When taken within 72 hours, the levonorgestrel...
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A decade-long heated debate regarding the availability of the morning after pill, Plan B One-Step, to all without prescription is now over. On April 5, a federal judge ruled that that the government must make the emergency contraceptive...
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On Friday, April 5, U.S. District Judge Edward Korman, a Brooklyn, New York federal judge who was appointed to the Eastern District of New York by Ronald Reagan, reversed a 2011 FDA ruling and ordering the Food and Drug...
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The FDA has won the case to remove the age restriction for what is call the “morning after pill” by some. Until now, a female had to be a minimum of 16 years old in order to get...
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