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FDA to Approve Plan B for 17-Year-Olds Without a Prescription
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The federal government plans to announce today that it would allow the sale of the morning-after pill Plan B without a prescription to women as young as 17, making the controversial contraceptive available to minors for the first time without a doctor's order, a federal official said.
The Food and Drug Administration agency is taking the action to comply with a judge's ruling last month that the agency's 2006 decision to limit availability of the contraceptive method to women 18 and older was invalid and politically motivated, the official said.
The FDA plans to notify the company that makes Plan B that it would approve sale of the pill to 17-year-olds at the company's request.
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