Plan B: The fight goes on
SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD It's been a year since Plan B contraception (sometimes referred to as "the morning after pill") became available over the counter, much to the relief of American women. Sales of the pill are "booming"...despite the best efforts of ultra-conservative groups and politicians. But the fight is far from over. A coalition of anti-pill groups has filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming that the Food and Drug Administration was responding to political pressure when it approved Plan B... In her Tuesday column on birth control in the Baltimore Sun, Cristina Page, spokesperson for birthcontrolwatch.org, pointed out that Republican presidential candidates are using certain key words and phrases that intend to not only overturn Roe v. Wade, but to further limit women's access to birth control by defining life as beginning "at conception rather than at the time of implantation"... |
