Despite Reversal, Don’t Look for Emergency Contraception Soon - Vitals
The Obama administration may have backed down after a decade of fighting over emergency contraception, but don’t expect to see Plan B, or any other morning-after birth control product, out from behind the counter anytime soon.
For one thing, the federal government has come back to the judge handling the case with an offer that he may or may not approve. For another, it will take the company that makes the product a while to re-apply to for approval and re-package the pills in a way appropriate for selling out in the aisle.
But reproductive rights groups and medical groups welcomed the decision.
“This is a game-changer,” says Judy Waxman of the National Womens Law Canter.
“The administration finally saw that it had nowhere left to go,” said Susannah Baruch, who heads the Reproductive Health Technologies Project. But, she added, “I don’t expect to see the product at the corner pharmacy immediately.”
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