Women’s Health Groups Slam Obama Administration’s Fight To Maintain Age Restrictions On Plan B

NOW President Terry O’Neill is quoted in this ThinkProgress piece by Tara Culp-Ressler: “Late Wednesday evening, the Obama administration announced that it will appeal a recent court decision that ordered the FDA to make emergency contraception available to all women over the counter. Last month, U.S. Judge Edward R. Korman gave the administration 30 days to lift the current age restrictions on over-the-counter Plan B, saying the decision to require younger teenagers to obtain a prescription for the FDA-approved contraceptive amounted to ‘political interference.'”