By PAM BELLUCK Published: April 06, 2013 A federal judge has ruled that the United States government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and under.
The decision, on a fraught and politically controversial subject, comes after a decade-long fight over who should have access to the pill and under what circumstances, and it counteracts an unprecedented move by the Obama administration's Health and Human Services secretary who in 2011 overruled a recommendation by the Food and Drug Administration to make the pill available for all ages without a prescription.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
OK Rooters has some more info: "In his ruling, U.S. District (New York) Judge Edward Korman said the FDA's rejection of requests to remove age restrictions to obtain the pill was "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable."
However, I have little reason to expect that fedgov will appeal. The regime now has a ready excuse in hand, a judge has ruled...
By PAM BELLUCK Published: April 06, 2013 A federal judge has ruled that the United States government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and under.
The decision, on a fraught and politically controversial subject, comes after a decade-long fight over who should have access to the pill and under what circumstances, and it counteracts an unprecedented move by the Obama administration's Health and Human Services secretary who in 2011 overruled a recommendation by the Food and Drug Administration to make the pill available for all ages without a prescription.
[Look out below! Stunning, just stunning.]
Wonder if the idiot judge realizes he's now an acoomplice to obstruction of justice, in that, by allowing underage girls and potential older boyfriends to buy the pill, he is helping to potentially destroy evidence of statutory rape.
"The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader