Contact: Bogomir Kuhar, PharmD, FASCP, 740-881-5520
MEDIA ADVISORY, March 23 /Christian Newswire/ -- A judge ruled today that the controversial abortifacient so-called "morning-after pill" Plan B be available to 17 year olds without a prescription. US District Judge Edward R Korman also ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to reconsider whether to make the drug available to girls of all ages without a prescription.
Ignoring patient safety and the damage high dose steroids have on developing female bodies, Korman petulantly insisted the FDA revisit the controversial previous ruling on the abortion drug. Hundreds of women have had serious side effects from Plan B as it has killed millions of preborn babies. It is the subject of ongoing lawsuits and public scrutiny.
Previous studies by the FDA and the Plan B manufacturer, Barr Labs, has shown Plan B is abortifacient 75 to 89% of the time. Planned Parenthood claims that it distributes more than 1 million Plan B kits annually, more than tripling its death claim of performing nearly 300,000 surgical abortions annually.
Barr typically gives groups like Planned Parenthood sweetheart deals on drugs like Plan B as if they were a closed network hospital system, while the group turns around and sells the product for 10-20 times its cost, undercutting local retail pharmacies in the process during a downturned economy.
One international pharmacy leader, Pietro Uroda, explained that the so-called morning after pill is "a sort of hormonal bomb" that "cures nothing." "It is a pharmaceutical product that is for killing an eventual embryo" that is already a human being.
Pharmacists have increasingly called for rights of conscience protection so they can refrain from dispensing, counseling or referring for such chemical abortions. Four states have granted outright Conscience Clauses and 4 have given broad conscience rights to pharmacists. Recently, President Barrie Hussein Obama initiated the process of reversing the Bush Conscience Clause HHS regulations that codify three existing federal conscience protection laws.
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