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"U.S. District Judge Edward Korman is not happy that the Obama Administration tweaked his order to stop the Republican filibuster on all-access of the morning-after pill immediately. While Korman ruled that Plan B and similar next-day birth control options be available over the counter to girls and women everywhere, the President&amp;#039;s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, tweaked the decision slightly in order to pass it easier.  In a sort of compromise to both sides, the Obama Administration decided that it would be available over-the-counter \u2014 but only to girls over the age of fifteen. Any younger than that, and a prescription is required. But Judge Korman sees this not as a compromise, but a concession to the right-wing. He calls this attempt at bipartisan diplomacy (or, in layman&amp;#039;s terms, &amp;quot;Take-backsies!&amp;quot;) &amp;quot;politically motivated, scientifically unjustified, and contrary to agency precedent&amp;quot; and a decision &amp;quot;so unpersurasive as to call into question [Sebelius&amp;#039;s] good faith.&amp;quot; Zing. The Court&amp;#039;s Opinion calls the Obama administration&amp;#039;s argument &amp;quot;largely an insult to the intelligence of women&amp;quot; and a technique to continue to condemn older women who use Plan B by using the potential abuse of it by younger girls as a cover (the scientific and health concerns surrounding young women who take Plan B, however, were deemed to be basically inconsequential in early April, when Korman first made his decision).  Follow Anna on Twitter: @annabreslaw Image via istockphoto "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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