Responding to an April mandate from a federal district court that would make the emergency contraception drug Plan B available without a prescription to all women regardless of age, the Obama administration reduced current age restrictions on the pill from 17 to 15.
That political compromise, despite being the U.S.’s most progressive legislation on emergency contraception to date, continues a historical pattern of ignoring the very studies U.S. administrations have ordered to evaluate the safety of the drug and the societal effects of increased access to emergency contraception.
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