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- Title: Sex, Politics, And Morality at the FDA: Reflections on the Plan B Decision (Essays) (Over the Counter Emergency Contraception)
- Author : The Hastings Center Report
- Release Date : January 01, 2006
- Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 198 KB
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On September 3, 2005, I resigned my consultant t position with the Food and Drug Administration. I did this to protest the agency's August 26, 2005, decision to delay a final ruling on over-the-counter availability of Plan B, the emergency contraceptive, and I wasn't alone: Susan Wood, the FDA's assistant commissioner for women's health and director of the agency's Office of Women's Health, also resigned at about the same time. What in the world has been going on at the FDA? Plan B consists of two relatively large doses of a single ingredient, levonorgestrol, a constituent of many birth control pills. Taken twelve hours apart within seventy-two hours after unprotected intercourse, the drug is about 75 percent effective in preventing pregnancy. Importantly for the question of over-the-counter availability, the drug's contraceptive efficacy decreases dramatically during this seventy-two hour window.