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Government to Decide on Morning-After Pill Without Perscription
WASHINGTON – By month’s end, federal health officials will decide whether to let women buy emergency contraception without a prescription - and if so, if the morning-after pill will be treated more like aspirin off the shelf or like cigarettes.
Regardless of how the Food and Drug Administration ends the two-year saga, it isn’t likely to settle the issue. States already are moving to expand access to Plan B, the pill that can prevent pregnancy if taken soon after unprotected sex, amid some competing efforts to restrict it.
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WASHINGTON – By month’s end, federal health officials will decide whether to let women buy emergency contraception without a prescription - and if so, if the morning-after pill will be treated more like aspirin off the shelf or like cigarettes.
Regardless of how the Food and Drug Administration ends the two-year saga, it isn’t likely to settle the issue. States already are moving to expand access to Plan B, the pill that can prevent pregnancy if taken soon after unprotected sex, amid some competing efforts to restrict it.
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