petition - FDA Approval of OTC EC

[noamnety]

(Copied from an email):

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has until tomorrow, January 20 to decide to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, Plan B®. We've been here before: last year, Care2 members sent over 23,000 comments to the FDA in support of over-the-counter access to emergency contraception (EC). The FDA has already found EC to be safe and effective, and the FDA's own advisors overwhelmingly recommended approving the application.

So what happened? On May 6, 2004 the FDA caved in to right-wing pressure and denied the application. Will the FDA do the right thing this time and help women prevent unintended pregnancy? Or will politics prevail again? Your voice matters: http://www.care2.com/go/z/20613

Here's how far this administration will go to put politics before women's health and lives: The Department of Justice has just released its first-ever medical guidelines for treating sexual assault victims - and they have dropped any reference to EC. Apparently, helping women who have been raped isn't as important to the Bush administration as pushing its own far-right ideology.

Please sign today to help make EC more accessible to victims of sexual assault, and all women who need it: http://www.care2.com/go/z/20613