Worked Up About Teens and Plan B? Here's What the Kids Actually Think.

Lots of important adults — judges, doctors, the POTUS himself — have fervent opinions on whether the morning-after pill should be available to girls of all ages without a prescription and point-of-sale or age restrictions, yet no one ever asks teenagers themselves what they think. So we did.

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Meet the Federal Judge Who's Dropping Sass All Over the Plan B Debate

Consistently no-bullshit Federal Judge Edward Korman flat-out denied the government’s request to stay his order pending an appeal to the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals today, calling the administration's appeal of a federal court order to make emergency contraception fiiinally over-the-counter for all women “frivolous”…

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FDA: You Can Buy Plan B Over-the-Counter, But You Must Be 15 or Older

You can now buy Plan B One-Step over the counter if you're age 15 or older — which would be more of a cause for celebration if a federal judge hadn't ordered the FDA to make the pill available to women and girls of all ages last month. What happened?

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Organic Eden Foods Isn't Progressive Enough to Pay For Its Employees'…

Eden Foods, an independently owned natural food company, is just as interested in the "Creation and Maintenance of Purity in Food®" as the maintenance of purity in your uterus: the company is suing the Obama administration for exemption from the contraceptive mandate. Owner Michael Potter believes sex is for…

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Making It Legal: The Morning-After Pill Is Really, Truly Available for …

In a monumentous decision, a federal judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to remove longstanding age and point of sale restrictions that prevent women from easy access to emergency contraception. The FDA has 30 days to comply. It's about damn time.

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Just Give Us Our Goddamn Morning-After Pills Already

American women have more than doubled their use of emergency contraception in recent years, thanks mostly to millennials, according to the latest episode of Girls. No, just kidding; we know 11 percent of women have used emergency contraception at least once, up from 4.2 percent in 2002, and that nearly one in four…

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Even Pediatricians Think Teens Should Have Unrestricted Access to the…

Woahhhhh: the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended today that pediatricians should write advance prescriptions for the morning-after pill for girls under 17 so they can get quick access to it if need be. Pediatricians, you guys! If they can't speak realistically about the sex lives of teen girls, who can?

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Illinois Pharmacists Can Now Legally Refuse to Sell You Plan B Because …

If you live in Illinois, you better pray super hard that your condom never breaks — or that something even worse transpires — because a state appeals court recently upheld a ruling that exempted pharmacists with religious objections from prescribing emergency contraceptives. Let's hope your friendly local Walgreens…

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New York City Launches Plan B Pilot Program in 13 Schools, Only Some…

The New York City Department of Education is implementing a particularly progressive pilot program in 13 schools across the city — students as young as 14 at those schools will now have access to Plan B emergency contraception. The program is part of a wider effort to lower the rate of teen pregnancy, as some 7,000 New …

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