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Title: Obama faces choice on morning-after pill limits
Post by: riky on April 07, 2013, 09:00:26 AM
Obama faces choice on morning-after pill limits

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/obama-faces-choice-morning-pill-limits-074753483--politics.html"><img src="http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KeFqJ_cTvdK4.mHI8gulfw--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9ODU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/b97c8dca7acf2f0b2e0f6a7067001083.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="This undated image made available by Teva Women's Health shows the packaging for their Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) tablet, one of the brands known as the &quot;morning-after pill.&quot; In a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration, a federal judge ruled Friday that age restrictions on over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill are &quot;arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable&quot; and must end within 30 days. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman of New York means consumers of any age could buy emergency contraception without a prescription _ instead of women first having to prove they're 17 or older, as they do today. And it could allow Plan B One-Step to move out from behind pharmacy counters to the store counters. (AP Photo/Teva Women's Health)" align="left" title="This undated image made available by Teva Women's Health shows the packaging for their Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) tablet, one of the brands known as the &quot;morning-after pill.&quot; In a scathing rebuke of the Obama administration, a federal judge ruled Friday that age restrictions on over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill are &quot;arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable&quot; and must end within 30 days. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman of New York means consumers of any age could buy emergency contraception without a prescription _ instead of women first having to prove they're 17 or older, as they do today. And it could allow Plan B One-Step to move out from behind pharmacy counters to the store counters. (AP Photo/Teva Women's Health)" border="0" /></a>WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama supports requiring girls younger than 17 to see a doctor before buying the morning-after pill. But fighting that battle in court comes with its own set of risks.</p><br clear="all"/>

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