Bill would push FDA on 'morning-after pill'

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Bill would push FDA on 'morning-after pill'

By Susan Heavey Thu Nov 3, 2:09 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers frustrated with U.S. regulators' slow pace introduced a bill Thursday to force the
Food and Drug Administration to decide whether the "morning-after pill" can be sold without a prescription.

The measure says the Plan B pill, made by Barr Pharmaceuticals Inc., would be automatically be approved for over-the-counter sale 30 days after the bill's passage, until the agency makes a decision.

The bill's sponsors said the FDA had repeatedly refused to grant over-the-counter status for Plan B despite overwhelming scientific recommendations that it do so.

"Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions," Democratic Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Joseph Crowley of New York, Jay Inslee of Washington, and Republican Rep. Christopher Shays (news, bio, voting record) of Connecticut said in a statement.

[rodeodance]

1. well, it is past time to put an end to this stall game!

....It is unclear how much support the bill, sponsored by three Democrats and one Republican, will have in the Republican-led Congress.

Plan B is a set of two tablets containing higher doses of the hormone progestin used in birth control pills, and works by blocking the release or fertilization of an egg.

It is different from the "abortion pill"
RU-486, which blocks the hormone needed to keep a fertilized egg implanted in the uterus.

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2. Wouldn't need to have many abortions

right.....

Sounds good to me.

[HockeyMom]

3. IF, and I repeat IF, it prevents the implantation of a

"fertilized egg baby" it IS abortion to them. Even plain old ordinary BC pills, which MAY do the same in some cases, are ABORTION to these extremists.

[OnionPatch]

4. You are so right

just the off chance that a fertilized egg may be prevented from attaching to the uterus is enough for them to call it abortion. That's why they are against the regular birth control pill as well as abortion. I feel certain that after they overturn Roe v Wade, they'll be pushing to get rid of all these drugs too, claiming that they cause abortion, which would be illegal.

[goclark]

5. Except for the abortions that their daughters and wives and

mistresses have --that is a different standard.

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6. Yes, but they cannot explain that their 'god' does this with 67% of

fertilized egg babies!

[ErisFiveFingers]

9. 67%?

I've heard other numbers, but it would be great to have a source for such a high number...

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Here's one source....

Actually, the statistics are more grim than Pence admits. Only about 50% of all zygotes successfully implant in the uterine wall and become embryos. And only about 65% of all embryos lead to live births; the rest (about 35%) are lost to natural miscarriage. Therefore, slightly less than one third of all zygotes lead to live births. These statistics come from Gregg Easterbrook in "Abortion and Brain Waves" (2000) and from Morowitz and Trefil, The Facts of Life. Science and the Abortion Controversy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1992). Easterbrook: only about 32.5% (65% of 50%) of all fertilized ovum are carried to term. Morowitz and Trefil: "slightly fewer than a third of all conceptions (72 percent of 45 percent) lead to a fetus that has a chance of developing." Morowitz and Trefil point out that not all fertilizations result in successful cell division -- some fertilized eggs don't even become blastocysts.

[CTyankee]

7. Hello. A pregnancy begins with implantation

of a fertilized egg in the uterus. That is the medical definition. Before that, it is a crapshoot.

[BlueIris]

8. Kick.