Judge’s Orders: ‘Morning-After Pill’ to Become Available Over the Counter to All Ages
NBC News is reporting that a federal judge has ordered the Food and Drug Administration to make the "morning-after pill" available to girls of all ages without a prescription.
The ruling came from U.S. District Judge Edward Korman in Brooklyn on Friday. The ruling came out of a lawsuit brought to the courts by reproductive-rights groups that wanted to remove age restrictions on emergency contraception.
Under current law, women must be at least 17 years old or older to obtain the pills without a prescription.
Korman said that the FDA's rejection to remove age restrictions had been, among other things, "unreasonable."
The FDA has not commented on the story.
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