Helpful Information About Plan B

CMDA Morning After Pill Resources
Standards 4 Life: Infertility & Reproductive Technology
Plan B Fact Sheet (PDF)
The "Morning-After Pill," Abortion and Informed Consent
Plan B: Russian Roulette Anyone?

Dumbfounded

Access to Plan B May Have Limited Effect

Excerpted from "Access to Plan B May Have Limited Effect." By Andrew Bridges. The Associated Press. August 25, 2006--Wider but still restricted access to the morning-after pill may not have the dramatic effect on unintended pregnancy and abortion rates touted by some advocates, reproductive health experts say. Expanded access should spur increased sales of the pills, called Plan B, but it probably won't have a major public health impact. Planned Parenthood hailed the decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow nonprescription sales of the pills to adult women, saying expanded access could prevent up to 1.5 million unintended pregnancies and 800,000 abortions a year. [The next day], it revised that estimate downward:

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Political Pressure

August 24, 2006--The nation's largest faith-based association of doctors today issued a statement opposing the FDA's decision to allow "emergency contraception" to be purchased without a physician's prescription and oversight, with the intended exception of purchases by minors.

Dr. David Stevens, Executive Director of the 17,000-member Christian Medical Association (www.cmda.org) noted, "The FDA's plan seems designed as a political compromise, but the FDA is supposed to insure health and safety apart from politics. The FDA seems to be making the same mistake with 'Plan B' that it made with RU-486--making a decision influenced by political pressure. Full Release

Family Concerns

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• Officials to Re-Examine Studies of Emergency Treatments (Reuters)
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• After Katrina, Choosing to Stay (CNN)
• Call for Stem Cell Research on Plants (The Age)