{"id":29746,"date":"2011-12-08T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/plan_to_widen_availability_of_morning-after_pill_is_rejected\/"},"modified":"2011-12-08T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T03:25:00","slug":"plan_to_widen_availability_of_morning-after_pill_is_rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29746","title":{"rendered":"Plan to Widen Availability of Morning-After Pill Is Rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday overruled the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s decision that emergency contraceptives be sold freely over the counter, including to teenagers 16 years old and younger.<\/p>\n<p>The pill, called Plan B One-Step, has been available without a prescription to women 17 and older, but those 16 and younger have needed a prescription \u201d\u201d and still will because of Ms. Sebelius\u2019s decision. In some states, pharmacists can write the prescription on the spot for teenagers. But the restrictions have meant the pills were only dispensed from behind the counter \u201d\u201d making them more difficult for everyone to get. The pill, if taken after unprotected sex, halves the risk of a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/12\/08\/health\/policy\/sebelius-overrules-fda-on-freer-sale-of-emergency-contraceptives.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Wednesday overruled the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s decision that emergency contraceptives be sold freely over the counter, including to teenagers 16 years old and younger. The pill, called Plan B One-Step, has<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29746\">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":[39,40,149,104,96,151,108,584],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-politics-in-general","category-religion-culture","category-the-u-s-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29746","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=29746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}