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kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-07-11 03:00 PM
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11. What legal restriction on age could possibly be justified beyond the local "age of consent"?
Edited on Wed Dec-07-11 03:02 PM by kenny blankenship
FDA says Plan B is as safe for younger women as older. So if the (local) law says a teen girl is in charge of her body at whatever age, so that she can get married if she wants to, and isn't jail bait anymore for a lover if she doesn't want to, how can her access to Plan B possibly be restricted by a different standard - presumably based entirely on what some unelected Nannycrat thinks is unseemly? I think someone else besides the drunk driving head of the FAA should be resigning in disgrace this week.
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  -In Astounding Move, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Overrules FDA Recommendation musette_sf  Dec-07-11 02:11 PM   #0 
  - come on....  Armin-A   Dec-07-11 02:18 PM   #1 
  - Can POTUS overrule her?  Myrina   Dec-07-11 02:19 PM   #2 
  - This was a political decision that came from the top.  Maven   Dec-07-11 02:27 PM   #5 
     - Yep.  musette_sf   Dec-07-11 02:33 PM   #7 
  - I am hoping and praying  musette_sf   Dec-07-11 02:22 PM   #3 
  - Well, DUH. FDA should have held this for a year, sorry.  MADem   Dec-07-11 02:24 PM   #4 
  - Sadly, I think you are right.  Old and In the Way   Dec-07-11 02:35 PM   #8 
     - You know, I really would rather not be right, but they can either hold this for a year  MADem   Dec-07-11 02:43 PM   #9 
  - This present regime  marsis   Dec-07-11 02:28 PM   #6 
  - -1. Obama doesn't want to be labeled as a guy who facilitates sex for little kids  MADem   Dec-07-11 02:47 PM   #10 
     - I agree with your posts on this issue. (nt)  redqueen   Dec-07-11 04:36 PM   #12 
  - What legal restriction on age could possibly be justified beyond the local "age of consent"?  kenny blankenship   Dec-07-11 03:00 PM   #11 
  - Many states have that age set at eighteen. The most common age is sixteen.  MADem   Dec-07-11 05:48 PM   #13 
     - Since you acknowledge at least that the age of consent in many states is 16  kenny blankenship   Dec-07-11 07:51 PM   #14 
        - Sure there can--this ruling has made it so.  MADem   Dec-07-11 08:57 PM   #15 
           - Your argument is shit since the FDA already ruled the Plan B medication safe for OTC  kenny blankenship   Dec-07-11 09:29 PM   #16 
              - Sorry. The FDA isn't "the decider" and that's where your argument "fails."  MADem   Dec-07-11 09:37 PM   #17 
                 - Obama > Women's Rights  kenny blankenship   Dec-07-11 09:39 PM   #18 
                    - No. You let the GOP run this issue into the ground, and use it to GOTV  MADem   Dec-07-11 10:01 PM   #19 
  - Has anyone stopped to wonder WHY  Feldspar   Dec-09-11 03:28 PM   #20 
 

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