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"\n\tAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below\n\t\n\n\n\nEarlier this month, Federal Judge Edward Korman ruled that the morning-after pill should be accessible to anyone who needs it. (A previous FDA mandate required prescriptions for girls under 17.)However, yesterday the Obama administration slightly tweaked Korman's verdict in order to satisfy all concerned parties (specifically, the ones who got all butthurt about the possibility that 11-year-olds might OD on the drug, a figure that Judge Korman called \"miniscule\"): Over-the-counter Plan B and similiar pills will only be available to women aged 15 and above, reports the Washington Post.FDA commissioner Margaret A. Hamburg said of the decision: \"Research has shown that access to emergency contraceptive products has the potential to further decrease the rate of unintended pregnancies in the United States. The data reviewed by the agency demonstrated that women 15 years of age and older were able to understand how Plan B One-Step works, how to use it properly, and that it does not prevent the transmission of a sexually transmitted disease.\" Meanwhile, girls under the age of 15 require a prescription for the drug.Women's heath advocates, understandably, are somewhat befuddled by the take-backsies on Korman's ruling. However, this still represents a major coup for women's reproductive rights.Follow Anna on Twitter: @annabreslawImage via istockphoto"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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