Morning-After Pill Decision Investigated

Report: FDA Decision-Making on Emergency Contraception 'Unusual,' Political Motives Suspected

By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer

 

WASHINGTON Nov 14, 2005 — Federal health officials didn't follow normal procedures in rejecting over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill and some documents suggest the decision was made even before scientists finished reviewing the evidence, congressional investigators reported Monday.

 

Politics trumped science, immediately charged long-suspicious members of Congress who had requested the independent audit.

 

"We are deeply opposed to this subversion of science," Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and 17 other lawmakers wrote Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt.

 

Whole story: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory?id=1311811

The politicization of health care options for women? I’m shocked!

 

One interesting story that I haven’t tried to follow up on, but I’d love to have the real low down scoop – why did the FDA head bail with no explanation just 2 months after his confirmation? Oh well, I guess there’s another conservative veterinarian just waiting to be tapped by Bush for the job.

Denying the approval of a morning after pill must reach beyond ethtical issues--right?

 

Is the Bush Administration afraid more women will engage in unprotected sex because of the pill? Just seems like a trivial reason for Congress to establish clout within a company intended to serve the general public.

Denying the approval of a morning after pill must reach beyond ethtical issues--right?

 

Is the Bush Administration afraid more women will engage in unprotected sex because of the pill? Just seems like a trivial reason for Congress to establish clout within a company intended to serve the general public.

I think that there are portions of the religious community in this country that are afraid of exactly that. They're the ones afraid that if you give condoms (and associated education) to african countries to try to help them fight AIDS it will encourage sex despite evidence to the contrary, etc.