17 year olds can get Plan B

Good news (?) for 17 year old girls who find themselves in need of the "morning after" pill--you can now get it without a prescription. The NYT headline was "FDA eases access to morning after pill " but the FDA itself reported a court ruling as the reason why they were "easing" access to the pill. This pill has been pretty contentious in religious circles so I doubt we've heard the last of it. Emergency contraception has been in the news since the 1980 discovery of RU-486. A quick Google search on that medication reveals that all the top hits appear to be controlled by the religious groups who oppose the pills. Pharmacists may or may not be willing to stock the Plan B pills may or may not be willing to dispense the medicine to a particular client etc. A quick call to my local pharmacist reveals that they have it they dispense it from behind the counter price about $40. That's in LA; how would that play in Peoria?