{"id":809,"date":"2005-09-21T13:02:42","date_gmt":"2005-09-21T18:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/09\/21\/take-action-fda-morning-after-pill\/"},"modified":"2005-09-21T13:11:42","modified_gmt":"2005-09-21T18:11:42","slug":"take-action-fda-morning-after-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/09\/take-action-fda-morning-after-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"Take action FDA Morning-after Pill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Urge the FDA to improve access to the morning-after pill<\/strong><br \/>\nTarget: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Commissioner Lester Crawford<br \/>\nSponsor: NARAL Pro-Choice America<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Bush administration has broken its promise to make a decision on the morning-after pill by September 1.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>By constantly delaying the decision, Bush&#8217;s FDA is allowing a small number of anti-birth control zealots to prescribe policy for women&#8217;s birth control options.<\/p>\n<p>Help us tell the FDA that Americans don&#8217;t appreciate anti-choice politics getting in the way of sound science and women&#8217;s access to birth control.  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/takeaction\/127076967?z00m=48851&#038;z00m=48851\">Sign our petition to the FDA today<\/a>!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/2005\/09\/take-action-fda-morning-after-pill\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-armchair-activism","category-human-rights","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.virushead.net\/vhrandom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}