A Government Accountability Office probe has confirmed suspicions about the Food and Drug Administration’s foot-dragging on allowing over-the-counter sales of the Plan B emergency contraceptive: It’s a case of abortion politics overruling scientific expertise — and manipulating and undermining standard FDA procedure in order to do so. Top FDA officials reportedly didn’t even wait for the scientific review process to play out last year before deciding to nix the application. Some administration officials take issue with the GAO’s facts, but women shouldn’t be denied access to what scientists call a contraceptive because some political appointees can score points by treating it as an abortion pill.
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Considering how many lobbyists the health industry has in Washington, and this decision which proves out to be politically motivated.
How can we trust that the medicine the FDA has approved was done because of good medicine, or good politics?
Are there medicines that work with less side effects being rejected, because the company didn’t have enough political clout to go through the process?
Will they try to get spermacides outlawed next?
Didn’t you know? ANY form of birth control is immoral, since it defeats god’s directive to go forth and multiply. Must be some pill, if it’s stronger than god!
“Go forth and multiply”!! Are you sure God wasn’t wanting us to learn our mathematics? :)
Well, we certainly got division down pat!