Morning After Pill Study Contradicts Claims by Foes

[Southpaw Bookworm]

Another example of the anti-choice, anti-women groups' lies, and the truth being revealed. But of course, this is only science, and we know how much the Talibornagains respect that.

Providing women with easy access to the emergency contraceptive Plan B did not lead them to engage in more risky sexual behavior, a study of more than 2,000 California women has concluded.

The study did find that women given a supply to keep at home were more than 1 1/2 times as likely to use the drug after unprotected sex as those who had to pick it up at a clinic or pharmacy. The findings led the study authors to conclude that easy access to Plan B, also called the morning-after pill, could reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies while posing no apparent risk to women.

The study contradicts a key claim made by opponents of easier access to Plan B at a time when the Food and Drug Administration is preparing to decide on a second application to allow nonprescription sales of the drug.

In an indication of the strong feelings on both sides, advocates of Plan B are planning a sit-in at FDA headquarters in Bethesda on Friday. Some protesters have called for civil disobedience if the FDA official who rejected the first Plan B application, Steven Galson of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, refuses to meet with them.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48377-2005Jan4.html

[WildClarySage]

1. They throw this out because 15yr olds MIGHT have more sex

and leave Vioxx on the shelf for years killing approximately 33,000.

I think I would have more sympathy for the FDA if they'd not been so blatently politically motivated by the whole issue of EC.