The stunning override of the FDA is bad public policy. This is a case of politics triumphing over science yet again when it comes to matters of reproduction, contraception and abortion in the U.S.

Plan B has stirred strong emotions from the minute its manufacturer sought FDA approval. During the Bush administration, abortion foes tried to stifle the drug on the grounds that it works as an abortion agent even though the drug actually prevents a fertilized egg from implanting in the womb, which is not in the scientific sense of the term an abortion. Some docs and pharmacists made headlines by saying they would not prescribe the pill even in the case of a rape. Some hospitals will not stock it.

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