The morning-after pill known as Plan B is steeped in controversy again. The Department of Health and Human Services has taken the rare step of overruling the Food and Drug Administration and its science advisors and will not allow the pill to be sold over the counter in drugstores unless a woman can prove she is older than 17.
The stunning override of the FDA is bad public policy. This is a case of politics triumphing over science yet again when it comes to matters of reproduction, contraception and abortion in the U.S.
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(Spotted: MSN)
