Great news regarding Plan B! And by great news, I, of course, mean horrible news. A federal judge has ordered that the restriction by the Bush Administration of the access of sale of the OTC drug to minors (those under the age of 18) be immediately lifted. The judge ordered the FDA to allow 17-year-old "women" to purchase the birth control/zygote-killer without a prescription. They are also looking into opening the availability of the drug to all ages. In essence, the federal government has said its powers supersede those of parents of minors; the same parents who would be ever-so-rapidly sentenced to heavy fines and prolonged incarceration for negligence of safety by the same government, and yet are legally unable to protect their young (though sexually deviant as they may be for not using protection in this day and age) daughters from several safety risks that the pills present.
Quickly coming is a day where a 10-year-old approaches the counter, tells me to give them the I-don't-have-to-worry-about-my-consequences-and-so-choose-to-be-completely-cavalier-about-my-sexual-activeness-because-the-federal-government-rationalizes-that-this-is-better-than-an-abortion-although-this-can-in-some-ways-be-equal-to-an-abortion-and-there-is-nothing-you-or-my-parents-can-do-about-it-so-bite-me pills, slap a $50 down, says I can keep the change and the receipt, and walks away. Hopefully, they can do all of this before missing an episode of That's So Raven.
There exists an appropriate idiom in American culture for this occurrence, "our children are our future". Well, thanks to Teva, the feds, and the FDA - they might never have to have children of their own.
Peace!
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