Take action FDA Morning-after Pill
Urge the FDA to improve access to the morning-after pill
Target: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Commissioner Lester Crawford
Sponsor: NARAL Pro-Choice America
The Bush administration has broken its promise to make a decision on the morning-after pill by September 1.
American women have waited more than two years for the FDA to decide whether women can purchase the morning-after pill over the counter. The Bush administration explicitly promised the U.S. Senate that the FDA would stop dragging its feet and issue a decision by September 1. Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and Patty Murray (D-WA) secured this written promise last month as part of an agreement to lift their hold on the nomination of Lester Crawford to the post of FDA commissioner.
By constantly delaying the decision, Bush’s FDA is allowing a small number of anti-birth control zealots to prescribe policy for women’s birth control options.
Help us tell the FDA that Americans don’t appreciate anti-choice politics getting in the way of sound science and women’s access to birth control.