Birth Control

A birth control double standard

2013-05-20 00:00:00

In the uproar about making the morning-after contraceptive known as Plan B available to our daughters, there has been no similar outcry about condoms and our sons. Anyone of any age can walk into a drugstore — as well as most grocery and big-box...

Doctoring in a family way

2013-05-15 00:00:00

Jennifer was one of my first patients as a new doctor, and she came to see me about an unintended pregnancy. A single mom to a rambunctious 5-year-old girl, Jennifer was struggling economically and battling depression. We talked about the options...

Plan B contraception and Obama's betrayal of women

2013-05-02 16:48:00

President Obama spit his game, as the kids say, when he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd at a Planned Parenthood conference a little over a week ago: “You’re making me blush,” he cooed to their thunderous applause. “I love you back.&...

Government will appeal Plan B emergency birth control ruling

2013-05-01 19:02:00

The U.S. attorney's office announced late Wednesday that it would appeal a federal judge's decision to make Plan B One-Step and related emergency birth control pills available to consumers of all ages without a prescription. In papers filed with the U....

A plan to make the morning-after pill a moot point

2013-05-07 04:09:00

It's a new front in the long-running battle over reproductive rights, playing out this time as a clash between politics and science. Doctors say there's no medical reason to keep girls of any age from having easy access to the morning-after...

Letters: Science vs. politics on Plan B

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Re "Birth control ruling appealed," May 2 It is fitting that the online version of this article on the Obama administration's appeal of an order to remove the age limit on Plan B emergency contraception appears on The Times' Science Now blog. As a...

Obama's Plan B misstep

2013-05-03 00:00:00

The Obama administration overstepped its legal authority — and injected politics into what should have been a scientific decision — when it ordered the FDA to limit the availability of a common morning-after contraceptive without...

Obama 'very comfortable' with age restriction on 'morning after' pill

2013-05-02 20:04:00

MEXICO CITY -- President Obama says he’s “very comfortable” with a Food and Drug Administration ruling that maintains age restrictions on females who can buy the so-called morning after pill without a prescription. The rule announced...

Plan B One-Step debate continues

2013-05-02 15:50:00

Confused by the wrangling in federal court over the Plan B One-Step emergency contraceptive? You're not the only one. As U.S. attorneys work hastily to halt a federal judge's order regarding the sale of the so-called morning-after pill, medical and...

Judge again rejects limits on emergency contraception

2013-05-11 00:00:00

In yet another scathing critique of government health officials, a federal judge refused Friday to stay his order making emergency contraceptives available to consumers of all ages without a prescription. Calling government efforts to restrict the...

Judge blasts government's Plan B contraceptive filing

2013-05-10 13:18:00

In yet another scathing critique of government health officials, a federal judge refused Friday to stay his order making Plan B emergency contraceptives available to all consumers without a prescription. Ruling that government efforts to restrict the...

Plan B can be sold to 15-year-olds without prescription, FDA says

2013-04-30 17:22:00

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that it has approved the sale of the emergency contraceptive pill, Plan B One-Step, without a prescription for females ages 15 and older. The action comes roughly three weeks after a federal...

A federal judge has ruled that pharmacies must make the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill available to women of all ages without a prescription.

2013-04-05 11:10:00

The FDA has approved the sale of the emergency birth control pill Plan B One-Step without a prescription to females 15 years of age and older.

2013-04-05 00:00:00

Federal attorneys are seeking to overturn an order by a U.S. district judge that would make some emergency contraceptive pills available to consumers of all ages without a prescription.

2013-04-05 00:00:00