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Birth Control in Vending Machines? It’s About Time.
by Elizabeth Dawes, Reproductive Health Technologies Project (RHTP)
February 15, 2012 - 9:47am (Print)
For the past two years, the Etter Health Center at Shippensburg University, a small-town Pennsylvania school, has provided access to a vending machine that dispenses Plan B One-Step® (among other health products) to students at a cost of $25. While politicians and political elites continue to get their knickers in a twist over contraception, it is heartening to see some public health experts who just get it.
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Physician to President's Scientific Advisors: Plan B Decision Hurt Science, Medicine, Women's Health
by Douglas Laube, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health
January 6, 2012 - 3:41pm (Print)
"As doctors, we prescribe and recommend Plan B to adolescents and adults, knowing it is safer than Tylenol and many other products sold on drugstores' open shelves."
Restricting Plan B Is Bad Politics
by Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality Check
December 12, 2011 - 11:34am (Print)
Kathleen Sebelius clearly upheld restrictions on emergency contraception as a naked political move, but it wasn't even smart politics. Young women, a big voting bloc for Democrats, are insulted and will likely be demoralized by this decision.
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In Astounding Move, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Overrules FDA Recommendation to Make Plan B Over-the-Counter
by Jodi Jacobson, Editor in Chief, RH Reality Check
December 7, 2011 - 2:33pm (Print)
In what can only be called an astounding move, today Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) overruled a much-awaited decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make emergency contraception (EC) available over-the-counter (OTC) to women of all ages. No HHS Secretary has ever before overruled an FDA decision, according to the New York Times.
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