Plan B: religious belief against free choice
I like to watch 60 minutes, as you might have noticed :)
They had a piece on Plan B, a morning after pill.
It was put on the market in 1999 and was described as an emergency contraceptive that prevents a pregnancy in cases of rape or accidents like condom breaks.
It is only available by prescription. But because women need to take it within 72 hours, the drug's manufacturer applied to the Food and Drug Administration two years ago for permission to sell Plan B over the counter.
The drug is considered totally safe, so the request was seen as a slam dunk. But then Plan B became the target of anti-abortion rights groups, and part of the wider controversy over whether religious beliefs are encroaching on scientific decision-making.
The US administration is doing all it can to stop this medication to become available over the counter and most of the people helping it are doing it out of religious belief.
People working at the FDA are furious that their technical expertise is simply ignored and that the decisions taken don't follow the almost unanimous consensus.
Religion should not take over science and threaten people right to choose freely. At least as long as the country is a democracy, as opposed to a theocracy!
Posted in: _Society , _USA , _HumanRights
They had a piece on Plan B, a morning after pill.
It was put on the market in 1999 and was described as an emergency contraceptive that prevents a pregnancy in cases of rape or accidents like condom breaks.
It is only available by prescription. But because women need to take it within 72 hours, the drug's manufacturer applied to the Food and Drug Administration two years ago for permission to sell Plan B over the counter.
The drug is considered totally safe, so the request was seen as a slam dunk. But then Plan B became the target of anti-abortion rights groups, and part of the wider controversy over whether religious beliefs are encroaching on scientific decision-making.
The US administration is doing all it can to stop this medication to become available over the counter and most of the people helping it are doing it out of religious belief.
People working at the FDA are furious that their technical expertise is simply ignored and that the decisions taken don't follow the almost unanimous consensus.
Religion should not take over science and threaten people right to choose freely. At least as long as the country is a democracy, as opposed to a theocracy!
Posted in: _Society , _USA , _HumanRights
Labels: HumanRights, Society, USA
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