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President Bush's Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has finally agreed to determine whether to allow over-the-counter sales of the morning-after pill, Plan B®, by September 1.

If it were up to medical experts and scientists, the morning-after pill – which significantly reduces a woman’s chance of becoming pregnant after sex or sexual assault – would have been available without a prescription last year.  But science doesn’t seem to matter when it comes to making policy on women’s reproductive health in the Bush Administration.  In May 2004, President Bush’s FDA rejected the recommendations of its own experts and denied an application to make EC available to women over the counter.  Even worse, the Bush Administration is allowing Medicare to cover sexual enhancement drugs such as Viagra!

There is still time to urge the FDA to do the right thing this time and help women prevent unintended pregnancy!  Send a message to the FDA encouraging the agency to approve EC for over-the-counter status.