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Article: Emergency contraception must be available.(Columns)(Column)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- December 17, 2003
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Byline: GUEST VIEWPOINT By Marilyn Helton and Barbara Arnold For The Register-Guard
Imagine you are raped or your contraception fails - for instance, your partner's condom breaks. Frantic, you know that you have only a limited amount of time to obtain emergency contraception. But you need a prescription, and it's the weekend or a holiday, and your doctor's office is closed. Meanwhile, time is passing quickly, and soon it will be too late.
On Tuesday, a joint hearing of the Food and Drug Administration's Nonprescription Drugs Committee and its Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee considered whether Plan B, a type of emergency contraception, ...