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F.D.A. Easing Access to ‘Morning After’ Pill

Posted: 04/23/2009

By GARDINER HARRIS

Published: April 22, 2009

 

WASHINGTON — Seventeen-year-olds will soon be allowed to buy morning-after contraceptive pills without a doctor’s prescription after federal drug regulators complied with a judge’s order and lowered the age limit by a year.

 

The decision on Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration, which overturns one of the most controversial health rulings of the Bush administration, was scorned by abortion opponents and hailed by their abortion rights counterparts.

 

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