Just Give Out the Goddamn Pill

Seriously gotta get this shit together. It’s the fucking 21st century.

Fierce arguments have gone on inside and outside the Food and Drug Administration, which may decide as soon as this week whether drug stores can sell the emergency contraception known as Plan B without a prescription to women age 16 and older.

The cons?

Easy access to this kind of birth control might “encourage women to have sex.”

Oh, wouldn’t that be terrible.

Last May, the FDA rejected nonprescription sales of emergency contraception, against the overwhelming recommendation of the agency’s own scientific advisers.

Your body is a battleground…

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