Judge strikes down age restrictions on ‘morning-after’ pill
Administration policy called ‘obviously political’
A federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration on Friday to make a morning-after birth control pill available without a prescription for girls younger than 17 within 30 days — a blunt opinion that rebuked decisions by the Obama administration as politically motivated.
U.S. District Court Judge Edward Korman said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius made an “obviously political” decision in 2011 — one year before President Obama’s reelection — to prohibit the sale of Plan B One-Step to girls aged 16 or younger unless they had a prescription.
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