Plan B (drug)

O.C. hospital that halted elective abortions targeted for protest

2013-06-19 12:05:00

Demonstrators said they will gather Thursday outside a prominent Newport Beach hospital to protest its decision to halt elective abortions. Hoag Hospital’s decision was announced after it partnered with a Catholic healthcare provider, though...

Hoag Hospital criticized after dropping elective abortions

2013-06-16 07:42:00

Hoag Hospital's decision to stop performing elective abortions in the wake of its affiliation with a Catholic healthcare group has sparked an outcry among women's rights advocates, who say the move diminishes access to high-quality reproductive care....

Plan B emergency contraceptive pill battle: Confusion endures

2013-06-12 17:36:00

It was hailed as a significant step forward in women's reproductive rights, but this week's decision by the Obama administration to allow non-prescription, over-the-counter sales of the emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step may do little to dispel...

On Plan B contraceptive, the White House gets it right -- finally

2013-06-11 17:37:00

The White House has smartly reversed its opposition to allowing girls of all ages to buy the Plan B One-Step contraceptive pill over-the-counter. The Obama administration still resists the sale of cheaper, more generic versions of the emergency...

Feds to comply with NY morning-after pill ruling

2013-06-10 17:31:00

The federal government on Monday told a judge it would reverse course and take steps to comply with his order to allow girls of any age to buy emergency contraception without prescriptions.� The Department of Justice, in the latest development in a...

Obama administration reverses course on Plan B pill

2013-06-10 22:42:00

The Obama administration dropped its long-standing opposition to over-the-counter sales of a controversial morning-after pill Monday and decided to permit consumers of any age to buy Plan B One-Step without a prescription. In papers filed in federal...

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...

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...

Letters: Sexism and the Plan B debate

2013-05-25 00:00:00

Re "A birth control double standard," Opinion, May 20 Bravo to Meg Waite Clayton's articulate Op-Ed regarding society's double standard for male and female sexuality, and the Obama administration's consequent restriction of access to emergency...

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...

Hoag Hospital to stop performing elective abortions

2013-05-05 17:32:00

In a letter to affiliated physicians and staff, Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach has announced that elective abortions will no longer be performed at the hospital. The letter said the decision is based of the low number of procedures done annually at...

A federal judge has refused the Justice Department's request to issue a stay on his ruling requiring emergency contraception to be sold over the counter to customers of all ages. Pharmacist Simon Gorelikov holds a generic version of the pill.

2013-05-11 10:35:00

The FDA lowered the age at which girls and women can buy the emergency contraceptive without a prescription to 15 years old and said it no longer has to be kept behind pharmacy counters.

2013-04-30 00:00:00

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