{"id":12439,"date":"2009-04-24T00:30:19","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fda_to_allow_17_year_olds_to_get_morning_after_birth_control_over_the_count\/"},"modified":"2009-04-24T00:30:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T00:30:19","slug":"fda_to_allow_17_year_olds_to_get_morning_after_birth_control_over_the_count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12439","title":{"rendered":"FDA to allow 17-year-olds to get &#39;morning-after&#39; birth control over the counter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s groups cheered the government&#8217;s decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the &#8220;morning-after&#8221; emergency contraceptive without a doctor&#8217;s prescription, but conservatives denounced it as a blow to parental supervision of teens.<\/p>\n<p>The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would accept, not appeal, a federal judge&#8217;s order that lifts Bush administration restrictions limiting over-the-counter sales of &#8220;Plan B&#8221; to women 18 and older. U.S. District Judge Edward Korman ruled last month in a lawsuit filed in New York that President George W. Bush&#8217;s appointees let politics, not science, drive their decision to restrict over-the-counter access.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/features\/health\/sns-ap-us-morning-after-pill,0,4151057.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women&#8217;s groups cheered the government&#8217;s decision to allow 17-year-olds to buy the &#8220;morning-after&#8221; emergency contraceptive without a doctor&#8217;s prescription, but conservatives denounced it as a blow to parental supervision of teens. The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it would<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12439\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}