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Healthy Debate: The Availability of Emergency Contraception

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York ruled in late March the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did not properly evaluate whether or not the emergency contraceptive (EC) Plan B should be made available over-the-counter. The court ordered the FDA to extend over-the-counter access to Plan B to 17 year olds and to reconsider making it available without a prescription for those younger.

This ruling does not apply to DoD but it got our attention at MHS, considering there are over 200,000 women serving. We thought we would pose the question in this month’s healthy debate:
 
Should DoD take steps to make emergency contraception more readily available to service members around the world?

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