Judge mandates morning after pill for all ages with no prescription

More crazed, one-man judicial decisions.The pill is already available on a non-prescription basis for girls age 17 and older.

We will have more to follow on this decision.

A federal judge ruled Friday that the government must make the most common morning-after pill available over the counter for all ages, instead of requiring a prescription for girls 16 and younger. In his ruling, he also accused the federal government of “bad faith” in dealing with the requests to make the pill universally available, and said its actions had been politically motivated.

In a decision in a lawsuit filed by advocates, the judge, Edward R. Korman of Federal District Court, ruled that the government’s refusal to lift restrictions on access to the pill was “arbitrary, capricious, and unreasonable.”

Judge Korman ordered the F.D.A. to lift any age and sale restrictions on the pill, Plan B One-Step, and its generic versions, within 30 days.

“More than 12 years have passed since the citizen petition was filed and 8 years since this lawsuit commenced,” the judge wrote. “The F.D.A. has engaged in intolerable delays in processing the petition. Indeed, it could accurately be described as an administrative agency filibuster.”

Comments

[Eileen Peterson]

This is a devastating ruling for children. What happens when these young girls develop breast cancer in their twenties?
Will Judge Korman take responsibility? Another example of parental rights being stripped by judicial tyranny run amok!